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Yahoo Acquires Snapchat-Like Blink App
2014-05-15 00:36:49| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
The Android and iOS app will begin shuttering over the next few weeks, so start sending your final transient texts now.
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Yahoo Acquires Snapchat-Like Blink App
2014-05-14 22:36:38| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The Android and iOS app will begin shuttering over the next few weeks, so start sending your final transient texts now.
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Yahoo acquires social data visualization startup Vizify
2014-03-06 13:41:43| InfoWorld: Top News
Yahoo has acquired Vizify, a company that turns social media data into interactive visual aids such as infographics and videos, adding to the Internet giant's string of acquisitions designed both to get talent and access to new technologies and services. In this instance, Vizify in Portland, Oregon, will be closing down the service and refunding its paid customers. From Wednesday, Vizify will not be accepting new users, the startup wrote on its website.
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Yahoo acquires diary app maker Wander with an eye toward mobile
2014-02-12 13:23:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Yahoo has acquired Wander, a startup that makes a diary app, as part of the Internet company's continuing efforts to improve its products on mobile devices. Wander makes an app for the iPhone called Days, which is designed to let its users share photos and animated GIFs in a single package from a daylong period. The idea is to give the images context, as opposed to sharing photos individually, as users do with Instagram.
Yahoo acquires mobile video app startup Ptch
2013-12-04 13:49:51| InfoWorld: Top News
Yahoo has acquired Ptch, the startup behind a mobile app that allowed users to combine photos and video on their phones into movies, and the service will shut down by January. Incubated by DreamWorks Animation, Ptch was positioned as a social media application that enabled users to make stylized short videos, called ptches, and share them with the Ptch network of users as well as on Facebook and Twitter timelines.