Virato was a search engine and aggregator for current news in Germany, which have achieved a high level of reach on the social web.

The service bundles news from thousands of sources across the web (this includes blogs and webzines).

Since its initial introduction, Virato acquired and re-launched by dw capital[1] (CEO: Axel Schmiegelow, German Entrepreneur).

The website can't be reach, the last messages on the social media pages were posted in January 2014 (Twitter) resp.

Each story teaser contains information about its social distribution, displays corresponding tweets from the Twitter community and the detail page of the article leads the user to the original online published source.