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Re:The Summly deal makes no sense by ojbyrne on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @12:29PM (#5444365)
According to Alexa, yahoo is the 4th most visited website in the world. They have innumerable ways to generate traffic. "Traction" implies a company that is not being visited at all trying to get a jump start, and is just not accurate.
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Re:The Summly deal makes no sense by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @01:01PM (#5444582)
Not all traction is created equal. I'm not sure how simply Yahoo could convert its users, who tend to be more conservative, to mobile.

Technical parity is a bad way to price a company, i.e. the value of Summly cannot be approximated by what it would take to replicate the technology in-house.

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