Yahoo pays $30m for an iPhone app that has no revenue and is made by a teenager, and this is what counts as product buzz at the $25bn internet giant? That is not to say the backstory is uninteresting. Nick D’Aloisio as a boy in London teaches himself to code. He then invents a program called Summly that truncates news articles for the impatient mobile phone set. Later, the free-to-download program quickly attracts some glittering backers and ultimately 1m downloads.
雅虎(Yahoo)斥资3000万美元，买下一位少年编写的尚未产生任何收入的iPhone应用。在这个市值250亿美元的互联网巨头眼中，这个小产品的价值真有这么高？这并不是说这一收购的幕后故事乏味无趣。伦敦少年尼克•达洛伊西奥(Nick D'Aloisio)通过自学学会了编程。他设计了一款名为Summly的程序，它可以替那些缺乏耐心的移动电话人群将新闻截短。这款免费下载的程序很快吸引了一些成功人士，下载量最终达到了100万。
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