Chicago Tribune suspends use of Journatic content

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge concluded that an Internet news clipping service essentially resold stories from The Associated Press, saying in a decision released Thursday that the ability of news organizations to perform "an essential function of democracy" is jeopardized when a company merely redistributes the news of others.

Nick D’Aloisio has officially earned his seat at the cool kids’ table. The 17-year-old high school student this week sold his news aggregator app Summly to tech giant Yahoo for a reported $30 million in cash and stock. While he’s finishing up his diploma, he’ll also start work at Yahoo’s London office. Meanwhile, Yahoo plans to enhance its own mobile apps with the technology developed for Summly, which uses an algorithm to automatically produce easily digestible summaries of news stories. The issue now isn’t what fancy car the teenager plans to buy with his millions.

Nick D’Aloisio has officially earned his seat at the cool kids’ table. The 17-year-old high school student this week sold his news aggregator app Summly to tech giant Yahoo for a reported $30 million in cash and stock. While he’s finishing up his diploma, he’ll also start work at Yahoo’s London office. Meanwhile, Yahoo plans to enhance its own mobile apps with the technology developed for Summly, which uses an algorithm to automatically produce easily digestible summaries of news stories. The issue now isn’t what fancy car the teenager plans to buy with his millions.

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A lot of people are complaining about Facebook's News Feed, saying that the social network has tweaked it to give prominent placement to paid advertisements.

(Chicago Tribune)