British Teen Is The Mastermind Behind Top Selling News App

Seventeen year-old Nick D’Aloisio is the brains behind a new iOS app for reading news called Summly, a tool that summarizes top headlines for quick reading. The free app lets readers browse headlines along with concise summaries of the stories.

The teenager has raised more than $1 million for his app from supporters including Rupert Murdoch and Stephen FryBBC News has more: “Mr D’Aloisio took time off school to develop his idea for a smartphone application that offers summaries of existing news stories published on the net. The

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