Summly

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Nick D'Aloisio

Summly was a company that has a same until March 2013 iPhone - app offering, the texts summarizing to 400 characters. The takeover of the company by Yahoo for $ 30 million in March 2013 attracted international attention because the developer of the software, Nick D'Aloisio , was only 17 years old. The app was discontinued with the takeover. It was removed from the Apple App Store a few months after the Summly acquisition  .

Summly was based on software from SRI International .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ App start-up Summly: Yahoo makes teenagers millionaires. In: Spiegel Online . March 25, 2013, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Michael Spehr: Marissa and Nick. In: FAZ.net . April 1, 2013, accessed January 22, 2017 .