Some of its recent acquisitions include Astrid, a task-management app maker Summly, a news-condenser app maker Stamped, a mobile-review app maker OnTheAir, which specializes in broadcasting video chats or interviews to online audiences, which is a kind of clipping service for the web Propeld, a location-based apps maker Jybe, a social recommendation site Loki Studios, a mobile gaming start-up, PlayerScale, a gaming infrastructure company, photo app maker GhostBird Software enterprise conference call service provider, Rondee and mobile app developer Bignoggins Productions. The acquisitions of both GhostBird and Qwiki make sense as Yahoo wants to offer apps with new features to attract more users to its website.Īfter CEO Marissa Meyer took over the reins of the company, it has been quite active on the acquisition front. Yahoo also picked up GhostBird, a photography app-maker. Qwiki’s app is quite similar to Facebook's ( FB) Instagram, an app used for photo capture and sharing. After the closure of the deal, Qwiki’s employees will join Yahoo's mobile engineering team at its California headquarters. It also entered into a partnership with ABC News to create interactive stories for the news platform. It launched an app for iPhone wherein users could create movies from photos and videos stored on their phones. was founded by Doug Imbruce and Louis Monier in 2011. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. for $50 million (reported by AllThingsD). ( YHOO) recently announced the acquisition of mobile app developer Qwiki Inc.
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