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17 year old Sells his smartphone app to Yahoo for $30 Million

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17-year-old Brit Nick D'Aloisio, who has been designing apps on and off since the age of 12, is now a multimillionaire after selling his app, Summly, to Yahoo for a cool $30 million.He created the app—which provides simple summaries of stories on your mobile device when he was just 15 years old after realizing many Web pages are...

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Shipping-container homes in Shanghai

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In China's populous city of Shanghai, some families call shipping containers home. They rent containers from a landlord for 500 yuan per month — about $80. nuffnang_bid = "91a08969a8e2a6ae22af1cb004c672b4"; document.write( "" ); (function() { var nn = document.createElement('script'); nn.type = 'text/javascript'; nn.src = 'http://synad2.nuffnang.com.my/lr.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(nn, s.nextSibling); })(); ...

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