Yahoo buys one app, plans to kill 80% of its existing mobile apps

0. phoneArena posted on 12 Feb 2013, 20:00

Marissa Mayer has talked a few times about how Yahoo is going to place a lot of its energy on mobile, and it looks like a big part of that will be in focusing Yahoo's app portfolio. Mayer had talked about making an all-in-one Yahoo app to focus the company's offerings, and the start to that will be in the company killing off 80% of its existing mobile apps. But, Yahoo did also purchase a new app today too...

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1. jroc74 posted on 12 Feb 2013, 20:46 1 0

I had no idea Yahoo had mobile apps. That may be the bigger problem. All I knew was Yahoo mobile website...and yahoo mail and messenger.

2. jrparnell1977 posted on 12 Feb 2013, 21:16 0 2

Marissa Mayer needs to be cut along with those apps. This is news? This is the best yahoo can do? They need to stick with just being a search engine and canning that b!tch.

3. MartianMe posted on 12 Feb 2013, 21:18 1 0

Same here....but i do wish them the best tho.

4. darkkjedii posted on 12 Feb 2013, 21:26 1 1

Marissa is gorgeous.

7. jroc74 posted on 12 Feb 2013, 23:07 0 0

Some pics she is, some shes not. Overall...I'd buy her a drink or 2...

5. networkdood posted on 12 Feb 2013, 21:41 0 0

Do not go to Yahoo for your news info...lol

8. jroc74 posted on 12 Feb 2013, 23:12 0 0

I actually do. I have Yahoo as my home page. The different sections of the site is nice. I like the games blog, sports, tech news. So far having it as my homepage, the setup is the best for me.

As far as the individual writers go....thats another story.....lol.

6. soshi posted on 12 Feb 2013, 21:51 0 0

This is not new, even my feature java phone has integrated Yahoo service. It was the best experience with java long time ago

9. Beholder88 posted on 13 Feb 2013, 07:16 1 0

Yahoo is a joke. Adding a yahoo email address to a phone or tablet often fails, and their response is to use the app to get your email instead. Of course they want you to use an ad-filled app to get your information, so they get the ad revenue from it. Piece of junk.

10. ZeroCide posted on 13 Feb 2013, 18:49 0 0

The problem with that is that you need pop or imap to add it as a normal email account without the App. This requires you to get a yahoo plus account which costs monies.

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