Yahoo Buys UK Teen's Smartphone News App Summly

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Submission + - Yahoo Buys UK Teen's Smartphone News App Summly (techweekeurope.co.uk)

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judgecorp

on Monday March 25, 2013 @12:45PM

judgecorp writes: "Seventeen year old Nick D'Aloisio has sold his smartphone app Summly to Yahoo for an undisclosed sum. The app — created when he was 15 — aggregates news stories by topic and condenses them for time-strapped readers. D'Aloisio and his team will go to work at Yahoo when the deal closes."

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