Yahoo is expanding its research division, Yahoo Labs, with a total of 50 PhD hires planned for this year as the firm looks to expand its "science-led innovation" department, which looks into technologies including big data and artificial ...
Tags: Yahoo, Emerging Tech
Apple is reportedly looking to purchase the company behind the Kinect sensor, the motion controller for Microsoft's Xbox 360. PrimeSense, a semiconductor chip manufacturing company based in Israel, licensed the hardware design and chip ...
Tags: Sensor, Apple, Computer Products, Kinect sensor, Xbox 360
Yahoo will acquire Qwiki, a start-up behind a mobile app for creating videos on Apple's iPhone, as it continues to ramp up its mobile offerings. Yahoo paid about $50m (£33m) for the company, according to sources close to the matter, ...
Yahoo has acquired inbox management solution provider Xobni and its Smartr product suite,just hours after purchasing iPhone video app Qwiki. The deal is reportedly worth between$30m(£20m)and$40m(£26)and will see 31 Xobni ...
Tags: Email Management, email, mail
IDG News Service - In yet another mobile acquisition, Yahoo has acquired Qwiki, a New York City company that makes an app for turning photos and videos into short, edited movies. The Qwiki app takes pictures and videos that people already ...
Tags: Moviemaking APP, Qwiki, mobile acquisition