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This article could be a tweet: The new name is meant to be a combination of the words “alternative and Alibaba,” according to a person familiar with the compan
by panic 10y ago
This article could be a tweet:
The new name is meant to be a combination of the words “alternative and Alibaba,” according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to speak on the record about the name change.
- puranjay 10y agoMost articles could be condensed into headlines
- guftagu 10y ago> Most articles could be condensed into headlines There really needs to be an app for that
- puranjay 10y agoThere is an Indian startup that does that: InShorts.com
- salemh 10y agoThis reddit bot does a fantastic job of this. Summarizing articles in a readable manner. https://www.reddit.com/user/autotldr/ https://www.reddit.com/user/autotldr/ https://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ https://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotld...
- BronSteeDiam 10y agoThere was, it was bought by Yahoo... http://summly.com http://summly.com
- dom96 10y agoI remember this. Created by a 16 year old[1]. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D'Aloisio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D'Aloisio
- owebmaster 10y agoNow we know what kind of mentality took Yahoo down. Marisa Mayer should have read less HN?
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- sverige 10y agoMatt Drudge makes millions doing just that. He's the greatest wire editor of his generation.
- jk563 10y agoIf you're going to claim that it could be a tweet at least bring it down to 140 ;)
- Ftuuky 10y agoThe new name is meant to be a combination of the words "alternative and Alibaba” according to a person familiar w/ the company’s thinking.
- boona 10y agoWe can't be too hard on them. At least it's real news this time.
- test6554 10y agoI thought it was a nod to the windows command for pivoting to another application. Alt + Tab => Altaba