{"id":34298,"date":"2013-03-25T17:04:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=34298"},"modified":"2013-03-25T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:05:32","slug":"yahoo-buys-up-summly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/34298\/yahoo-buys-up-summly\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo buys up Summly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Inc has snapped up mobile news aggregator Summly, the companies said on their websites on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Summly, founded by 17-year-old Nick D&#8217;Aloisio, sorts news by topics in quick bites for smartphones. The start-up works closely with News Corp and is backed by Chinese investor Li Ka-Shing and angel investors including the actor Ashton Kutcher and the artist and designer Yoko Ono.<\/p>\n<p>The Summly app will be removed from the Apple Inc store and will be integrated into Yahoo&#8217;s mobile initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo has acquired several small mobile and web start-up companies since former Google executive Marissa Mayer became chief executive last year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Yahoo articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/27796\/yahoo-to-appeal-2-7-billion-lawsuit\/\"><strong>Yahoo to appeal $2.7 billion lawsuit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/27714\/yahoo-faces-2-7-billion-civil-case\/\"><strong>Yahoo faces $2.7 billion civil case<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/24795\/yahoo-profits-up-targets-mobile\/\"><strong>Yahoo profits up, targets mobile<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/24699\/yahoo-comeback-plans-target-technology-not-media\/\"><strong>Yahoo comeback plans: target technology, not media<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Inc has snapped up mobile news aggregator Summly, the companies said on their websites on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5456,25,5457,147],"class_list":["post-34298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-acqusition","tag-active","tag-summly","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34300,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34298\/revisions\/34300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}