PCWorld reports that Yahoo has acquired Loki Studios, a mobile gaming company, bringing its total acquisitions this month to four: Loki, Astrid, GoPollGo and MileWise. Yahoo said in a Tweet: "We recently added 22 entrepreneurs to our growing mobile team." The Loki team, on their website said, "We are thrilled to be joining the exceptional folks at Yahoo! We believe fully in their commitment to creating outstanding mobile products." . Read More
Yahoo reports that IGAWorks, a leading mobile app marketing company, announced it has signed a deal with Kakao Inc., South Korea’s leading messaging app service creator, to get the new mobile ad solution, adPOPcorn, to mobile messaging app KakaoTalk. Read More
Yahoo has purchased 4 million user to-do app Astrid, which enables users to make task lists on their Android and iOS Smartphones and tablets, and also online. The financial details of the deal were not revealed. Read More
The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo has decided not to buy DailyMotion, after the company signed a provisional deal to buy a stake of the online-video website from France Télécom. . Read More
VentureBeat reports that Yahoo Inc. is launching a new advertising format called Yahoo! Stream Ads, which will run together with content on Yahoo’s news feed. . Read More
Shazam has announced that Rich Riley has been hired as its new CEO. Further, it has announced that Andrew Fisher, who has been CEO since 2005, has been appointed to the newly created position of Executive Chairman. Read More
Fred Amoroso has resigned as the chairman of Internet search giant Yahoo, the company announced late Thursday. Amoroso will remain a board member through the company's shareholders meeting on June . Read More