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Friday, March 29, 2013

Teenager sells his app to Yahoo! by millions


Briton Nick D'Aloisio 17 became one of the youngest billionaires in the world technology to sell its mobile app Summly  to Yahoo! by a sum that could reach $ 30 million. Summly , that summarizes texts to phones, was developed in 2011 by D'Aloisio at age 15. Today his company has already raised $ 1.5 million.  "At 15 years old, Nick D'Aloisio created  Summly  app at home in London. This began with an acumen, we live in a world of constant information and we need new ways to simplify how to find the stories that are important to us, a glance, "said  Yahoo! The California firm said "Nick and the team Summly  joining  Yahoo!  in the coming weeks. "  The agreement includes a position for D'Aloisio in the company's offices in London, where he will work full time and study at night to complete their training. The purchase is part of the renewal strategyMarissa Mayer dump Yahoo! for the company to smartphones. A few weeks ago, took social recommendation tool Jybe.

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