Yahoo moved to strengthen the mobile portion of its revamped Flickr photo sharing service, acquiring the developer behind a popular photo editing app. The company said Wednesday it had purchased GhostBird Software, the company behind the ...
With Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer taking steps to transform the company back into a top-tier player, reports are out that Yahoo is in talks to buy Hulu for as much as $800 million. Yahoo bid between $600 million and $800 million for Hulu, a ...
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Yahoo announced Monday that it is buying Summly, a London-based company that developed an app that condenses information and makes it easily and quickly readable on mobile devices. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but it ...
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Yahoo is beefing up technology offerings and streamlining its media products in another sign it wants to improve its game against industry titans like Google, Apple and Facebook. It is putting the axe to more than a half dozen of its less ...
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Yahoo has agreed to acquire the development team of mobile app company Propeld, the third mobile start-up it has bought in four months. As first reported by TechCrunch, Propeld's Alike app allows users to discover and recommend nearby ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has identified new products and mobile investments as among several strategies aimed at keeping the company relevant as it tries to compete against the likes of Google and Facebook. On Monday, Mayer highlighted ...
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Yahoo has acquired content discovery and sharing website Snip.it, and the service has been shut down. Snip.it in San Francisco is offering users up to Feb. 21 the option to download and export their content, called snips. "As of today, ...
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Yahoo has acquired a video chat startup OnTheAir as the company focuses on mobile applications and services. "When we first met with the team at Yahoo!, it was clear that everybody there is committed to making mobile products the backbone ...
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