+ Summly says dang, only 2 out of 5 passed? Umm…alright, well will you still buy us? What’s the number? + Yahoo takes the information back to PR and corp dev’s numbers people. PR calculates that they’ll get major press for the acquisition of a teenager’s company, values that ...
The acquisition of Summly is clearly another play into the mobile space for Yahoo, whose web services portfolio has been somewhat behind the pack when migrating to an increasingly mobile-device led world. CEO Marissa Mayer, who joined the company from Google in July 2012, has publicly stat...
has announced that it is set to acquire mobile product company Summly. The acquisition of the London-based company, which was created as an app by founder Nick D’Aloisio when he was 15 out of his home, began with the aim of simplifying the way people gather their information. According t...
She also talked of moving the company forward in a series of "sprints," the latest one meant to get Yahoo on track "building beautiful products" -- and that's just how the iPhone app was introduced today, as a quick turnaround for the Summly acquisition and as a package that was "be...
But considering it was also named one of the best apps in Apple's App Store in 2012, that design as well as popularity could push Yahoo News to the forefront of plenty of smartphones and tablets. The addition of Summly also quickly follows Yahoo's acquisition of social recommendation engine...
The new version will also include a weekly video segment from anchor Katie Couric, recapping one news story from the past week. Yahoo launched the News Digest app in January this year. It is a product of Summly acquisition made by the company last year. The News Digest app was first avail...
Internet giant Yahoo continued its acquisition push on Monday, bringing iOS news summarization app Summly into the fold for an undisclosed sum. Yahoo announced the acquisition Monday in aposton the company blog, and Nick D'Aloisio confirmed the buy onSummly's home page. Neither site ha...
WhenYahoo purchased Summlyin March for an estimated $30 million, the company revealed that Summly's team would be rolled into Yahoo's own. The impact of that acquisition can be seen now in Yahoo's mobile search technology, CEO Marissa MayersaidMonday in a post to Yahoo's corporate blog. ...
At the time of the acquisition, Yahoo said it would work to get Summly’s technology into its existing mobile experiences as quickly as possible, suggesting the Yahoo! iOS app is just the beginning of its mission to “deliver the best of the web.”0 Comments See More: Apple Apps Mobile ...
The acquisition comes just weeks after Yahoo!acquired task management service Astrid, and just under two months after the companyacquired news summarization service Summly. Unlike Astrid and Summly, however, Tumblr will not change. “The product, service and brand will continue to be defined and de...