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Yahoo buys news app Summly from teenager
- anu_gupta 13y ago...and shuts it down.
- alanbyrne 13y agoI don't understand why they did that... couldn't they have just offered him at job at £200,000 a year? I'm sure he'd have accepted. Edit: Typo
- mchusma 13y agoThis sounds like an acquihire to me: -Shutting the product down -Deal is worth "millions" which could mean $2M My guess is nobody is being made a multi-millionare off this. But I'm not playing a tiny violen, getting acquihired is actually rare/hard to do so good job to them and the team.
- TallGuyShort 13y ago"Dozens of millions of pounds" => > 24M
- al3xdm 13y agoHe appeared on the BBC News channel (here in the UK) earlier this afternoon and it was suggested, though not confirmed, to be in the dozens of millions (£ not $).
- jonascopenhagen 13y agoI don't know if they edited the article, but right now it says "dozens of millions of pounds", which would mean at least £24 million, or roughly $36 million.
- rssident 13y agoHey Yahoo... maybe you want to buy a news search engine? http://rssident.com http://rssident.com