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I suspect a big part of the reason that Yahoo! makes these acquisitions if for PR, i.e., "look! we're a dynamic company making huge moves!" Look at Summly---ho
by fatjokes 13y ago
I suspect a big part of the reason that Yahoo! makes these acquisitions if for PR, i.e., "look! we're a dynamic company making huge moves!"
Look at Summly---how much value did they reap simply from the media coverage? They killed the software immediately, and I'm sure Yahoo! Research could've whipped up a pretty decent summarization engine at no extra cost.
- dsaint 13y agoThey integrated Summly into their Yahoo iOS app within 30 days of acquisition. They're using it to provide summaries of news articles in the app.
- fatjokes 13y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but didn't they integrate "Summly's summarization technology" into their app, which was licensed from SRI?