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This paragraph summarizes the entire article nicely: Yahoo said in a statement that while the Summly app would be shut down, “we will acquire the technology an
by AJ007 14y ago
This paragraph summarizes the entire article nicely:
Yahoo said in a statement that while the Summly app would be shut down, “we will acquire the technology and you’ll see it come to life throughout Yahoo’s mobile experiences soon.”
- jobu 14y agoShutting it down it the dumbest move ever. This story is all over the news and everyone wants to download it. Many developers pay a great deal to acquire more users, and Yahoo is just throwing this chance away.
- infrec 14y agoIf the app is crap it would make less sense to keep it. Perhaps relaunching the app after an "update" might be a good use of the name and positive press it has.
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- OGC 14y agoThey shut down the app, because it probably sucked and would have killed the hype. Imagine the PR fiasco if the headlines were "Yahoo bought worthless app that doesn't even work properly for 30 Mio $".
- Someone 14y agoSo, they (are rumored to have) paid "tens of millions", not for the product, but for a technology in a field that must be ripe with patents? They must have had a very novel idea, if it's worth that.