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Recently Yahoo acquired a mobile news app called Summly, which was developed by a teenager from UK called Nick D’Aloisio, for $30 million. Nick developed Summly when he was 15 years old and now he is one of the youngest self made millionaires in the world. Soon after its acquisition, Yahoo updated its iPhone app with Summly integration. Today they’ve finally brought over the technology to their Android app, which is now available for download.

The new Yahoo app for Android looks a lot like its iOS counterpart. It will offer users the same “visual stream of stories” that it does on the other app. If you’ll be using this app a lot to read up on a variety of topics, chances are you’ll come across something that you’ll want to share. The app has prominent buttons for sharing content to Twitter, Facebook as well as various Android apps. Users can also choose their preferred topics to be shown more information on them. Yahoo has also improved its image, video and Web tabs so that the app can show better search results. The new Yahoo app for Android can now be downloaded from Google Play Store.

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Summly, a mobile news app developed by a British teen, was acquired by Yahoo for a reported sum of $30 million. Nick D’Aloisio, the developer of this app, is ranked among the world’s youngest self-made millionaires. After teaching himself to write code just when we was 12 years old, he developed this app at the tender age of 15. Today Yahoo has updated its main iPhone app which now comes with Summly integrated.

Yahoo says that the new mobile app for iPhone is all about delivering the best of web. It capitalizes on Summly’s natural language algorithms to quickly deliver summaries of stories to the user. The company says that it is thrilled to introduce this “game changing” technology in their first mobile application. The app features extensive personalization options, users can decide the type of stories that they’re interested in and would like to stay on top of through this app. The search experience has also been improved with better image and video search. Currently the new Yahoo iPhone app is only available for users based in the U.S., it can now be downloaded from the iTunes App Store.

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It looks like there is yet another young millionaire in town, and it has nothing to do with the showbiz or sports business, but rather, under the banner of technology. British teen Nick D’Aloisio has managed to join this exclusive club, being $30 million richer as he sold his mobile news app known as Summly to Yahoo for that sterling amount. This would rank Nick D’Aloisio as one of the world’s youngest self-made millionaires, and if you think that all of this had to do with dumb luck, think again. Nick taught himself to write software at the tender age of 12, where the built the free iPhone app Summly three years after that.

Despite selling off Summly for that hand-summ amount (sorry, I could not resist that!), he will continue to work out of Yahoo’s office in London. Nick said, “To me, Yahoo is the best company to be joining right now because it’s one of these classic Internet companies. With new leadership from Marissa Mayer, Yahoo has a strong focus on mobile and product, and that’s the perfect fit for Summly.”

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