Yahoo Archives - AppsLova.com News reviews & fixes for Smart devices and apps Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:35:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Rockmelt acquired by Yahoo https://appslova.com/rockmelt-acquired-by-yahoo/ https://appslova.com/rockmelt-acquired-by-yahoo/#respond Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:24:50 +0000 https://appslova.com/?p=2868 It’s barely two months since Rockmelt entered the Android apps market (Google Play Store) and it’s already acquired by Yahoo.  According to reports, the deal was sealed at $50 to $60 million. Before hitting the Android store, Rockmelt was in the Apple App store for almost four years.  Rockmelt is the 21st mobile app startup […]

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]]> https://appslova.com/rockmelt-acquired-by-yahoo/feed/ 0 Astrid shutting down on August 5, 2013 https://appslova.com/astrid-to-shutdown-on-august-5-2013/ https://appslova.com/astrid-to-shutdown-on-august-5-2013/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:23:20 +0000 https://appslova.com/?p=2152 After May 1st Acquisition by Yahoo, Astrid has announced that it will be shutting down on August 5th, 2013. For those of you who don’t know what Astrid is, it is a task organizer/ to-do/personal assistant app which has been downloaded more than 4 million times in the app store. There are no reports what […]

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]]> https://appslova.com/astrid-to-shutdown-on-august-5-2013/feed/ 0 Yahoo acquires Xobni https://appslova.com/yahoo-acquires-xobni/ https://appslova.com/yahoo-acquires-xobni/#respond Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:06:05 +0000 https://appslova.com/?p=2086 Only yesterday we published a report about Yahoo’s acquisition of the video making app Qwiki and now today it is confirmed that Yahoo is buying another startup, an email and address book management service provider called Xobni (inbox when you spell it backwards). Now 31 employees of Xobni will be working for Yahoo. Xobni has […]

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]]> https://appslova.com/yahoo-acquires-xobni/feed/ 0 Yahoo buys iPhone app “Qwiki” https://appslova.com/yahoo-aquires-qwiki/ https://appslova.com/yahoo-aquires-qwiki/#respond Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:10:27 +0000 https://appslova.com/?p=2022 Reports have confirmed that Yahoo has acquired another budding startup, Qwiki. Qwiki  is an iphone application that allows you to “quikly” turn your gallery of images, videos and music into short movies.Though it is not yet officially announced, the deal was made at a whopping $50 million. Actually, it’s not so “whopping” compared to Yahoo’s […]

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]]> https://appslova.com/yahoo-aquires-qwiki/feed/ 0 Yahoo buys iOS photo app making company,GhostBird Software https://appslova.com/yahoo-buys-ios-photo-apps-maker-company-ghostbird-software/ https://appslova.com/yahoo-buys-ios-photo-apps-maker-company-ghostbird-software/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:18:27 +0000 https://appslova.com/?p=1614 After acquisitions like Tumblr, Summly, Alike, Stamped, PlayerScale and Snip.it , Yahoo’s takeover spree continues as reports confirm that Yahoo has bought another startup, GhostBird that develops  photo apps for the iphones.  Two of Ghostbird’s ios apps KitCam and PhotoForge 2 is now pulled out of Apple’s  App store. Yahoo Inc’s CEO Marrissa Mayer plans […]

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]]> https://appslova.com/yahoo-buys-ios-photo-apps-maker-company-ghostbird-software/feed/ 0 Yahoo acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion https://appslova.com/yahoo-acquires-tumblr-for-1-1-billion/ https://appslova.com/yahoo-acquires-tumblr-for-1-1-billion/#respond Mon, 20 May 2013 07:06:37 +0000 https://appslova.com/?p=1268 Previous reports indicated that Yahoo was planning to make an important investment on Tumblr. However, only last Sunday Yahoo board setup a meet to decide on the $1.1 billion all cash deal to acquire Tumblr and this hinted that Yahoo would in fact buy Tumblr.  Sources close to the board have made it clear that […]

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]]> https://appslova.com/yahoo-acquires-tumblr-for-1-1-billion/feed/ 0 Yahoo acquires 15 year old’s startup “Summly” for $30 million https://appslova.com/yahoo-acquires-15-year-olds-startup-summly-for-30/ https://appslova.com/yahoo-acquires-15-year-olds-startup-summly-for-30/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:52:55 +0000 https://appslova.com/?p=619 Nick D’Aloisio was only 12 years old when the App store opened. After self teaching mobile application development for three years the teenager would go on to launch his own startup, Trimit, which summarized news articles into 140 words for tweets. Soon they released an app called Summly which became a hit at the apple […]

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