Who wants to be a millionaire?

PositionTechnology - Yahoo's purchase of Summly from Nick D'Aloisio - Brief article

Yahoo! That might have been the reaction of 17-year-old Nick D'Aloisio from Great Britain when Yahoo recently paid him as much as $30 million for Summly, an app he invented. Summly uses an algorithm to summarize long news articles into a few sentences. The high school junior began coding when he was 12 and came up with the idea for Summly three years later. Several investors funded his project, enabling him to develop his app, which went live last November. Yahoo also offered the high school junior a full-time job at its London office, so D'Aloisio is...

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