Post Tagged with: "Yahoo"

PCWorld: Yahoo Purchases Loki Studios
/ May 13, 2013 3:05 pm
PCWorld: Yahoo Purchases Loki Studios

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: IGAWorks’ Mobile Advertising Platform, adPOPcorn, Coming To KakaoTalk
/ May 10, 2013 4:18 pm
Yahoo: IGAWorks’ Mobile Advertising Platform, adPOPcorn, Coming To KakaoTalk

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 Acquires To-Do App Astrid
/ May 2, 2013 4:29 pm
Yahoo Acquires To-Do App Astrid

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

WSJ: Yahoo Scraps Deal To Buy DailyMotion
/ May 1, 2013 2:44 pm
WSJ: Yahoo Scraps Deal To Buy DailyMotion

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: Yahoo Introduces New Advertising Format
/ April 30, 2013 12:31 pm
VentureBeat: Yahoo Introduces New Advertising Format

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 Hires New CEO, Prepares for IPO
/ April 30, 2013 12:24 pm
Shazam Hires New CEO, Prepares for IPO

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 Resigns as Chairman of Yahoo
/ April 26, 2013 2:33 pm
Fred Amoroso Resigns as Chairman of Yahoo

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

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