Summify to shut down June 22 amid Twitter integration

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I’ve been a huge fan of Summify since its launch last year, but the the online news and information aggregation service will be going away June 22. Summify’s demise should not be a surprise since the Vancouver, B.C.-based company announced that it would be shutting down it was sold to Twitter earlier this year. But there… Read More…

GeekWire Radio: Summify, Picnik, SOPA, PIPA — and doing good with your old PC

Charles Brennick of InterConnection with one of the group's $149 refurbished laptops for low-income households.

What happens when big tech companies acquire your favorite online services? Increasingly it seems, they shut ‘em down. At least, that was the case this past week with two of our favorites, Summify and Picnik. We lament their impending demise as we recap the week’s tech news on this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, along… Read More…

Ex-Microsoft interns sell Summify to Twitter: Popular news service will shut down

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Mircea Paşoi and Cristian Strat, the two Romanian Web developers who founded Summify instead of taking jobs at Facebook and Google, have now decided they’d prefer to work at Twitter. The developers announced today in a blog post that they have sold the company to the social networking powerhouse, a move that comes just 10… Read More…