The full announcement of this purchase can be seen HERE. Resources Found /cms/v1 (seen on 5541 websites) /bidRequest (seen on 4281 websites) /ups/58292/sync. Now backed by Yahoo! it will likely continue to grow both in popularity and in the features it offers. The Yowie is considered to be the Australian Bigfoot, and contain many primate like features, possibly indicating that it is an undiscovered species of great ape (Gigantopithecus) or prehistoric human. Those in the content marketing industry will want to watch Qwiki specifically as it could provide an excellent way to reach targeted audiences with high quality content. Yowie, also known as Yayhoo, Youree, Hairy Man, or Yahoo is a fanged humanoid marsupial or great ape, featured in Aboriginal mythology along with Australian Raptors, Bunyips and Burrunjor. Investors and marketers in general will want to continue to watch Yahoo! as it is making many changes, purchases and other improvements both today and going forward. Qwiki is an iphone application that allows you to quikly turn your gallery. We will continue to support the Qwiki app, and the team will join Yahoo in our New York city office to reimagine Yahoo’s storytelling experience. Reports have confirmed that Yahoo has acquired another budding startup, Qwiki.
The company continues to strengthen its core services of search and email while expanding into additional services such as video with this purchase and blogging with the recent purchase of Tumblr. Sharing a Qwiki is easy, whether you want to share your favorite moments from Coachella with your Facebook friends or celebrate the best moments from your sister’s wedding. This purchase marks the 15 th acquisition for Yahoo! since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in July of 2012. Recently acquired by Yahoo, Qwiki allows users to create stories through brief. In the official Yahoo! announcement it was said that the Qwiki app as well as the employees of the company that developed it would work closely with Yahoo! to help them reimagine storytelling. Qwiki is another very interesting digital storytelling application. In March 1995, when the company changed its name to Yahoo, it introduced another logo with a much more elaborate text that includes an exclamation point at the end, but it was short-lived, being used for only 5 months. While the official purchase price has not yet been released, AllThingsD believes the purchase price is between $40 and $50 million in a cash deal. Yahoo got its first logo during its establishment in 1994 it consisted of the 'Yahoo' wordmark colored black and in the Times New Roman font, displayed as plain text.
While not a direct competitor to Vine or Instagram, it is a similar service which might be what attracted Yahoo! in the first place. The application makes it quick and easy for users to take the pictures, music and videos they have on their device and turn them into a high quality slide show video which they can then share with friends, family or anyone else. Now, were hard at work creating new products for Yahoo users. In another move to strengthen their mobile presence, Yahoo! purchased an iPhone application known as Qwiki late last week. As you may remember, our team joined Yahoo in July 2013.