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Fifteen-year-old Lane Sutton is a social media
coach to brands looking to understand the
online world. Based in the US, Sutton regularly
speaks to conventions, business professionals
and college students about social media.
“I’m working to help small businesses and
companies create their online web presence,
and build their brand and following to create
return on investment,” Sutton told US
newspaper the Boston Globe.
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Seventeen-year-old Nick D’Aloisio from the
UK is the founder of Summly – an iPhone
application that summarises news stories into
digestible bites using algorithms. Summly was
sold this year to web search engine Yahoo! for
a reported $30m.
Nick D’Aloisio
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an anxious
generation
which is
losing faith
in university
and organised
systems."
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