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Nick D’Aloisio, the 17-year-old British CEO of Summly, which was just acquired by Yahoo. (via Yahoo Buys Coolness From Teenager for $30M | Wired Business | Wired.com) There’s no logical explanation for Yahoo’s reported $30 million acquisition of Summly, an app created by a 17-year-old Brit that launched five months ago. The team and technology are unexceptional and the app itself will be shut down. What Yahoo really gets for its big check is momentum and buzz. In other words, Yahoo bought Summly to appear cool again.

Nick D’Aloisio, the 17-year-old British CEO of Summly, which was just acquired by Yahoo. (via Yahoo Buys Coolness From Teenager for $30M | Wired Business | Wired.com)

There’s no logical explanation for Yahoo’s reported $30 million acquisition of Summly, an app created by a 17-year-old Brit that launched five months ago. The team and technology are unexceptional and the app itself will be shut down. What Yahoo really gets for its big check is momentum and buzz.

In other words, Yahoo bought Summly to appear cool again.

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“Cell users now treat their gadget as a body appendage. There is striking growth in the number of people who are taking advantage of the growing number of functions that these phones can perform, and there isn’t much evidence yet that the pace of change is slowing down.”Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life project, in the New York Times.

“Cell users now treat their gadget as a body appendage. There is striking growth in the number of people who are taking advantage of the growing number of functions that these phones can perform, and there isn’t much evidence yet that the pace of change is slowing down.”

Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life project, in the New York Times.

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thenextweb:

In an attempt to create the “definitive resource” for all open Web technologies, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera have joined the W3C to launch a new website called ‘Web Platform‘ (via Apple, Facebook and Others Team Up To Launch New Web Standards Website)

awesome. hopefully, now they’ll stop serving screwed up CSS for Opera :)

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