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March 26, 2013, 11:00:24 PM
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Wow! $16.2 million in cash ?!  Huh Roll Eyes

http://www.humanipo.com/news/4863/Yahoo-makes-teenage-app-developer-a-millionaire

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March 26, 2013, 11:55:36 PM
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yeah its just a hype buy, advert, and as you wrote here it worked, essentailly it would cost the same to get this sort of buzz out of a media campaign

 his software is so good yahoo is shutting it down.


any how if yahoo can afford to do this, bitcoin can at least go to a million each, I mean they actually have a utilty. Yahoo can aford to just spend 17 mill for really nothing but hype

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March 26, 2013, 11:58:40 PM
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Jimminy Cricket, that's a good deal of cash.  Convert to BTC nao!!

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March 27, 2013, 12:10:20 AM
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For 1/1000 of that price I will get team who will reverse engineer the damn app and then rewrite it from scratch.

Soon this kid will spend his money together with Lindsay Lohan.

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March 27, 2013, 12:19:23 AM
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Another reason to sell Yahoo!
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March 27, 2013, 12:25:39 AM
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From another forum I read,

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I was hired by Summly to write the Android version of their app, which was finished some weeks ago but the release date got shelved at the point they entered due diligence with Yahoo.

Since Yahoo have killed the apps I now know that it'll never be released. So that was a total waste of time. :angry:

Nick's a very smart kid and I like him, but I suggest not believing the hype 100%. It's stretching the truth to breaking point to paint this as a teen wunderkind creating multimillion-dollar products from their bedroom... Summly's quirky iOS app was mostly designed and written by an outside agency. Nick is supported by a team of techies and PR experts who know exactly how much both press and public *love* the "teenage genius millionaire" news template and they have exploited that interest brilliantly.

His investment banker Dad and IP lawyer Mum were the driving forces behind the endeavour.
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