Ananova

Ananova was a Web-oriented news service that originally featured a computer-simulated newscaster as an embodied agent named Ananova programmed to read newscasts to Web users. Ananova is now a subsidiary of mobile telecommunication operator Orange SA. Orange bought Ananova in 2000 from the Press Association (PA) in a £95m deal, and has now merged the site into its main news site.

While the Ananova website was still operational and providing written news items until 2009, the animated Ananova character was unavailable from 2004. The website had claimed since that time that the software was under development and would be available again "soon."

The Ananova news service was well known for its collection of unusual news stories, which it features in its Quirkies section, a section which now appears on Orange's news website.