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Nick D’Aloisio, Yahoo’s Teen Millionaire: ‘If You Have A Good Idea.. Just Go Out And Launch It’
By The Huffington Post News Editors
By Paul Sandle
LONDON (Reuters) – Got a tech idea and want to make a fortune before you’re out of your teens? Just do it, is the advice of the London schoolboy who’s just sold his smartphone news app to Yahoo for a reported $30 million.
The money is there, just waiting for clever new moves, said 17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio, who can point to a roster of early backers for his Summly app that includes Yoko Ono and Rupert Murdoch.
“If you have a good idea, or you think there’s a gap in the market, just go out and launch it because there are investors across the world right now looking for companies to invest in,” he told Reuters in a telephone interview late on Monday.
The terms of the sale, four months after Summly was launched for the iPhone, have not been disclosed and D’Aloisio, who is still studying for school exams while joining Yahoo as its youngest employee, was not saying. But technology blog AllThingsD said Yahoo paid roughly $30 million.
D’Aloisio said he was the majority owner of Summly and would now invest the money from the sale, though his age imposes legal limits for now on his access to it.
“I’m happy with that and working with my parents to go through that whole process,” he said.
D’Aloisio, who lives in the prosperous London suburb of Wimbledon, highlights the support of family and school, which gave him time off, but also, critically, the ideas that came with enthusiastic financial backers.
He had first dreamt up the mobile software while revising for a history exam two years ago, going on to create a prototype of the app that distils news stories into chunks of text readable on small smartphone screens.
He was inspired, he said, by the frustrating experience of trawling through Google searches and separate websites to find information when revising for the test.
Trimit was an early version of the app, which is powered by an algorithm that automatically boils down articles to about 400 characters. It caught the eye of Horizons Ventures, a venture …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post
Obama campaign arm retweets Yoko Ono photo of Lennon's bloody glasses
Ono tweets photo of bloody Lennon specs with anti-gun message
Yoko Shares Photo of Lennon's Bloody Glasses
By Matt Cantor 
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Newser – Great Finds
Anti-Fracking Celebrities, Such As Yoko Ono, Mark Ruffalo And Others, Put ‘Fractivism’ In The Spotlight
By The Huffington Post News Editors
NEW YORK — The scene: a Manhattan art-house theater. The cause: a campaign against the gas drilling process known as fracking that’s being led by more than 100 celebrities, including Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Robert Redford, Mark Ruffalo and Mario Batali.
Outside, demonstrators in hazmat suits circle the theater. Inside, actress Scarlett Johansson attends a benefit screening of “Gasland,” the documentary film that has become the movement’s manifesto. Johansson tells The Associated Press that her “Avengers” co-star Ruffalo introduced her to the cause, and that she found the film “incredibly shocking.”
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Words With Friends
Having a tea party the Tuesday before Christmas is a risky move, even for a social magnet like Derek Blasberg. Although he was unsure that people could duck out of the office or dodge holiday packing, he had the party anyway. Blasberg has a new stationery line with Opening Ceremony to celebrate. “I love that Opening Ceremony can have this very uptown letter-writing tea party at the St. Regis, especially after that very downtown collection of those Yoko Ono jockstraps.” The collaboration—a sort of Mad Lib, fill-in-the-blanks letter-writing guide—had its genesis this summer over drinks with O.C.’s Humberto Leon and Carol Lim. “I came with the idea, and they came with the execution,” said Blasberg. “They really know what they’re doing.” Giancarlo Giammetti, Nate Berkus, Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, and Alexa Chung all turned out, and nearly everyone grabbed a piece of stationery, then signed, sealed, and handed off personal letters to be mailed. So why the interest in letter writing and etiquette? “I never really thought I would become fashion’s ‘Emile’ Post,” Blasberg told Style.com. “Back when my mom made me write thank-you notes before I opened any of my Christmas presents, I should have known it would come back to haunt-slash-inspire me as an adult.”
—Todd Plummer
Source: Style Features