Other recent purchases include Astrid, a to-do app Summly, a news summarization service GoPollGo, a social polling tool and Jybe, a discovery and recommendation startup.Īnother major acquisition for Yahoo was Tumblr, announced in May as part of the company's larger efforts to reinvent itself and win back users. In May it gave Flickr a huge makeover, emphasizing a more photo-rich interface and a terabyte of free storage.Īcquisitions, particularly in mobile, have been a major theme at Yahoo over the past several months. Yahoo is already trying to woo users through photography. there's much more to come," Yahoo said in its blog post. Details are blurry, but Yahoo implied on Twitter that users may be able to use Qwiki with its Flickr photo sharing service, for instance.
Yahoo plans to integrate Qwiki's technology with other content services on its site, a spokeswoman said via email. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) - On the heels of acquiring Tumblr for 1.1 billion and a series of other technology companies, Yahoo has bought Qwiki, a New York City start-up. The Qwiki team will continue to innovate on new digital media experiences for Yahoo users, the company notes and invites users to download content created via Qwiki.
The app is currently available only in Apple's App Store there is no version for Android devices.
Qwiki movies can be shared via Facebook, Twitter, email and SMS, or embedded in blogs and Web pages. Vine and Instagram are for recording and sharing new clips. It did not disclose a price, but the website The Age said the price was 50 million.
Yahoo announced Tuesday it had bought Qwiki, a smartphone applications that converts video and pictures into movie clips with music soundtracks that can be shared. Qwiki differs from mobile video apps like Twitter's Vine or Facebook's Instagram video because it uses content already on people's phones. Doug Imbruce, 32, said via Twitter dougimbruce. Individual pictures and video clips can also be rearranged, added or removed. Certain elements, such as the song selection, filters or captions, can be changed afterwards. Yahoo acquired Qwiki for 50 million then shortly, the news broke that Chaotic Moon, an app development company sued Qwiki for non-payment of its design. In auto mode, the app scrapes the iPhone's camera roll, determines that certain photos or videos are related, and creates a slideshow-like montage of those images, incorporating music from the person's library. The app can either be used in auto mode, where it creates the movie and gives users the option to apply edits afterwards, or movies can be created manually. Yahoo said on its Tumblr page on Tuesday that it. has snapped up Qwiki, a mobile app for sharing music, photos and videos, for an undisclosed sum. The Qwiki app will continue to exist as a standalone entity inside Yahoo, Qwiki's team wrote. July 2, 2013, 2:47 PM NEW YORK (AP) - Yahoo Inc.