The most nonsensical part of all of this seems to be that Yahoo's going to kill the app and just integrate the technology into it's own products. As far as I c

The most nonsensical part of all of this seems to be that Yahoo's going to kill the app and just integrate the technology into it's own products. As far as I can tell, the reason the app was so valuable was due to the story that came with it, not the technology. Two years ago it got it got national coverage due to the surprisingly young age of the founder managing to create a popular app and raise funding. At the time the summarisation technology was highly unsophisticated. It appears that's now improved by using a combination of machine learning and natural language processing but I'm yet to hear a strong case that this tech is particularly innovative or protected from being reproduced elsewhere. By killing the app, they're losing all the users up to this point and all the potential customers that would check it out after hearing this story. These people don't particular care for the summarisation algorithm, they're not going to be searching for yahoo's own version of the app in a months time. Yahoo's either being stupid or know something we don't.