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Daily Update for June 13, 2013

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Yahoo! acquires GhostBird Software, apps pulled from App Store

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 13th, 2013)

GhostBird Software is known for its KitCam camera app and PhotoForge, an image editing app that first hit the App Store in 2009. Late Wednesday afternoon, the Canadian company announced that it is closing its doors and joining the Flickr team at Yahoo! GhostBird's website is now just a ...

Yahoo raises the stakes for free Flickr storage: 1 terabyte

by Steven Sande (May 20th, 2013)

It's official: Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer has gone completely bonkers, as the Yahoo-owned Flickr has just announced that all users now have a free terabyte of storage. That's a thousand gigabytes, folks. For free. As the Flickr website touts, one terabyte will hold 537,731 photos at an average size ...

Yahoo acquires Astrid task manager

by Michael Grothaus (May 2nd, 2013)

The team at Astrid has announced the company has been purchased by Yahoo. Astrid is a popular iOS and Android to-do manager with over 4 million users. In a blog post, Astrid CEO Jon Paris said: We are thrilled to announce that we have been acquired by Yahoo. When we set out to build Astrid, we ...

Yahoo! updates iPhone app with Summly integration

by Steven Sande (Apr 22nd, 2013)

Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer must really be cracking the whip lately, as the company has been on a roll when it comes to updating its apps or coming out with completely new apps like Yahoo! Weather. Today's news is that the company has updated its namesake iOS news app (free) to version 3.0, adding ...

Yahoo rolls out Flickr-driven Weather app and new iPad mail app

by Steven Sande (Apr 18th, 2013)

Remember Yahoo? The company's attempt at a return to relevance is in full gear, with the introduction of two new free mobile apps -- Yahoo! Weather and a tablet version of Yahoo! Mail. If Burt Bacharach was still writing songs, he probably wouldn't write "What the world needs now is weather ...

Yahoo's Flickr iOS app sees renewed popularity following redesign and Instagram woes

by Mike Wehner (Jan 29th, 2013)

In the wake of Instagram's recent woes and aided by a well-received redesign, Yahoo saw use of its Flickr iOS app jump by a whopping 25 percent. As TNW reports, the update was definitely catered to Instagram expatriates, adding more than a dozen photo filters as well as the ability to use Facebook ...

Yahoo Mail launches for iPhone

by Randy Nelson (Dec 11th, 2012)

One week after Google released a sweeping redesign of its Gmail app for iOS, Yahoo has jumped on the native email app bandwagon by launching Yahoo Mail for iPhone. The release was timed to coincide with a massive revamp of Yahoo's web mail, which is intended to be far faster than before and ...

Yahoo! Axis delivers synchronized browsing for iPad and desktop

by Michael Rose (May 23rd, 2012)

Want your desktop browser pages to show up on your iPhone or iPad, so you can keep on browsing where you left off? There are a few products already offering this feature, including the capable Firefox Home, but Yahoo's mobile product team didn't want to stop with a simple sync engine. They ...

Livestand from Yahoo! adds a slick magazine for iPad

by Mel Martin (Nov 2nd, 2011)

Livestand was released for iPad today and I have to say it is pretty impressive. The free app strives to provide you with a personalized magazine drawn from Yahoo! and other content sources like Scientific American, Consumer Reports News, Wired, Forbes, and Parenting. The onscreen presentation ...

Yahoo goes after app discovery with AppSpot

by Michael Rose (Jun 16th, 2011)

We do the best we can around here to help you find the most interesting and helpful apps across the iOS landscape, but the job is too big for anyone to tackle alone. That's why it's nice to see Yahoo's pair of products aimed at the app discovery challenge, the brand-new App Search site and the ...

Yahoo! Messenger lets iPad 2 owners video chat with PCs

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 19th, 2011)

Yahoo! rolled out a new Messenger app for iOS that includes support for the iPad 2. The tablet-optimized app will let you make voice and video calls using the front-facing camera. Yahoo! Messenger has a wide install base, and you will be able to make video calls to any device with a camera and ...

Yahoo! fixes iPhone IMAP data leak

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 15th, 2011)

Earlier this year, a report surfaced that suggested Yahoo! Mail was the cause of spurious data usage by Windows Phone and iPhone owners. The root cause was the Yahoo! IMAP mail servers, which were transmitting more data than was necessary for each email request. Occasional email checking was ...

TUAW's Daily App: MarketDash

by Mike Schramm (Feb 23rd, 2011)

Yahoo! sent us word that its new finance app, called MarketDash, is in the store now. While I'm not personally a big stocks guy, I think it looks good, and the iTunes reviews so far agree. The app is designed to tap into Yahoo! Finance, so if you have an account running over there, you can just ...

Yahoo! announces Livestand for iPad, available first half 2011

by Steven Sande (Feb 10th, 2011)

If you've been following TUAW's reports about The Daily, you're aware that many of the TUAW bloggers are so fed up with the buggy, crashing newspaper app that they've removed it from their iPads while the app is still free. For me, the crashes and slow loading weren't as much of an irritant as the ...