Yahoo is planning to invest in ephemeral messaging app Snapchat, according to a latest report from The Wall Street Journal. The investment will value Snapchat at $10 billion, said the report.
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Yahoo has made its first Indian acquisition by buying Bookpad for Rs 50 crores. The one year old Bangalore based start-up specializes in hosting cloud based documents. It provides end-to-end document handling technology for cloud.
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Yahoo has rolled out New Digest App on iPad that delivers twice daily digests, each consisting of eight to 12 stories based on the day’s biggest headlines.
The new version will also include a weekly video segment from anchor Katie Couric, recapping one news story from the past week. Yahoo launched the News Digest app in January this year. It is a product of Summly acquisition made by the company last year. The News Digest app was first available on iPhone and launched on Android later in May.
The app also brings a couple of additional features for the iPad. For starters, it has been optimized for a tablet and provides a beautiful landscape experience. Users can now customize the time of receiving the news update as per their convenience. They can choose anytime between 6am to 10am for the morning digest and 5pm to 9pm for their evening digest. Prior to this, these news updates came at a fixed time – 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Finally, after reading daily digest, users can further dig in for extra content on topics including technology and entertainment. You can download the Yahoo News Digest App for iPad from the Apple App Store.
via: Yahoo Blog
In a bid to streamline emails, Yahoo has added filters to its Mail app on Android. Users can filter their mails by using different colors, codes and labels.
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Yahoo has updated in Android app by allowing access to digital magazines as news categories from the navigational drawer. Yahoo’s portfolio of digital magazines includes Yahoo Food, Yahoo Tech, Yahooo Travel, Yahoo Movies, Yahoo Beauty, and Yahoo Health.
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Yahoo has acquired mobile analytics and advertising firm Flurry with an aim to boost its mobile ad offerings. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but reports are stating that the deal is somewhere between $200-$300M.
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In a bid to boost its online video offering, Yahoo has acquired video streaming firm RayV. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. RayV is an Israeli based startup that specializing in streaming high-quality video to computers and mobile devices. Founded in 2005, the members of RayV will join Yahoo’s research and development center in Tel Aviv.
Yahoo had acquired Aviate, an Android launcher app at the beginning of this year. The intelligent Android homescreen has left beta and has been launched with a refreshed UI and several other features.
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Yahoo gave its Mail app a major makeover on the iPhone at the end of last month. Today, the company has updated its Android app with same new features as its iPhone counterpart.
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Yahoo has made yet another acquisition, this time it has gone after one of the current hottest markets, mobile messaging. The company has scooped up self-destructing message service Blink for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading “Yahoo acquires secret mobile messaging app Blink”
Yahoo News Digest, a product of its Summly acquisition, took form as an iOS app back in January, when it debuted as a beautiful news reader with many sources. The same app is now available for Android, and it looks almost exactly like its iOS counterpart, pixel to pixel, which is a good thing because we think the app is beautiful. However, you do get a really nice home screen widget that lets you browse the feed at a glance. Previously limited only to the US and the UK, the News Digest app goes global this time around with an International Edition and another country-focused Canadian edition. Users in US, UK and Canada will all get local editions along with the International edition, which in turn will be available for all the worldwide users.
Download Yahoo News Digest on Google Play
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Yahoo’s mission for today’s CES 2014 keynote was literally this – simplifying daily habits. One of them, according to Marissa Mayer, CEO, was daily news and the way we consume it. It’s a total information overload, with multiple news sources reporting the same news, according to Yahoo, so to fix that, they have announced a new app for the iPhone, called the Yahoo News Digest. This is basically the result of the Summly acquisition that happened during March last year, because the resulting app is striking and beautiful, very much like Summly, the very unique news summarizing app that was. Nick, Summly’s founder who got acquired by Yahoo in the process, demoed the new app, based on the same principles of news collection and short summaries that made Summly popular, but this takes that concept further.
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Marissa Mayer just concluded Yahoo’s CES keynote today and one of the main takeaways from it was how the company is looking to change search, especially on mobile. Google Now has been at the forefront of contextual search on Android and iOS and Yahoo wants to tackle exactly that. How? It just announced the acquisition of the intelligent Android launcher – Aviate. The launcher, which was doing the rounds in beta, is currently a invite-only homescreen replacement that automatically configures your home screen based on contexts like time, usage, preferences and place. It was touted as the “Google Now” of launchers, so it is easy to see why Yahoo lapped it up.
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Yahoo has been on a spending spree lately and has acquired quite a few startups with its latest acquisition being Bignoggins Productions, an app development firm that makes iOS applications.
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