Yahoo ! buys ‘’Slummy’’ application for 30 million $ from a british young boy



NuApple :

Without warning, Yahoo America announced the purchase of a young small application English 17-year-old, an undisclosed amount, the total according to estimates some $ 30 million. What does this application? Give it the title a long article on the Internet, summarized for you with no more than a few letters! How? According to complex algorithms, reached by this young man, while he was nerd history lessons at school, and thought how program design topics and articles summarizes long ...

Some opinion that this purchase a propaganda purpose in the first place, the new director Marissa want to say that Yahoo is still young, legged life, and as a company are looking for creativity and buy it. Can not underestimate the relevance of such interpretation, because the application have  only a few months old, and Nick D'Aloisio (16 years old ) still studying for high school exams did not enter the university, and he would be the youngest employee in Yahoo England


Nick D'Aloisio  began at 12 years old and learning himself and experience, and while he publishing application ‘’Tremt’’ in March 2011 apple pay attention to the application , which has chosen to remember the apple store that the application deserves attention and interest. The Interest did not stop as quickly a Hong Kong billionaire named : ‘’Lee Ka shing’’ invested $ 300 dollar in this application, the investisment put   Nick as the youngest self-made ​​in the world to receive the financing from investors and only 15 years old. What is Nick reaction ? He took users botes on ‘’Trimit’’ and come back with a second copy of the application under  a new name ‘’Slummy’’and a new design and format, published in December 2011.



In November 2012 Nick got million-dollar investment from several international investors, these investments have brought managers, experts and professional programmers. After the number of users of this application rise to more than a half million users over 4 weeks, then Yahoo bought ‘’Trimit’’.

Why bought by Yahoo? Well, as you know, Yahoo Inc. has  many companies and sources and function producing new content, content words mean publishing companies publish articles and topics, reports and studies and all this. People today do not have time to read a long messages  , But they want short concise manual  and informative.

Do You want a shortcut the whole Wikipedia? This application is able to do that, claims Nick D'Aloisio because  It provides 28 years of the life of its users thanks to summarize the most important articles long!

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