It is clear that Yahoo is building toward a mobile plan, but what that is exactly is still a mystery. Excluding the $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr, many of the purchases have been smaller companies that produce mobile apps. In their reference site, Qwiki allows you to enter a search term and get an interesting overview of that topic with images, text, video, and infographics. What is Qwiki: Curious Explore 3,000,000 topics in a format perfect for the iPad: learn about whats near you, across the world - and everything in between. Qwiki is the 15th company purchased by Yahoo since Marissa Mayer was named CEO last July. Qwiki is an aggregation tool that combines video and web interactivity into a brief multimedia presentation.
It’s likely that Qwiki will be incorporated into Yahoo’s future plans for Flickr.
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The post says Qwiki will “reimagine Yahoo’s storytelling experience.” Yahoo recently launched a complete redesign of Flickr, released new Flickr apps for iPhone and Android and purchased GhostBird, a photo-editing app for iPhones. Its pairing of Wikipedia, photos, and narration has never wowed me, and my impressions were further diminished when a hacker demonstrated that he was able to clone. But I've never really found Qwiki to be terribly disruptive or even, honestly, that engaging. Qwiki will relocate from San Francisco to the Yahoo office in New York City. The startup has released its iPad app today, rekindling much of the hype and the hubbub.
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In a Tumblr post, Yahoo said it will continue to support the Qwiki app. With the auto mode, the app will create a slide show for you with a randomly chosen song and a series of photos taken from your device. Qwiki has partnered with ABC News to develop video-creation tools. is another wiki app that made the jump from the iPhone to the iPad. After the presentation, the ability to improve the Qwiki becomes available where it’s possible to suggest more pictures, videos, or critique the. Qwiki scours the internet for the information needed and presents it with a robotic female voice, text, videos, and pictures. Earlier this year, Qwiki launched the iPhone app that allows users to put pictures and videos together with music and easily share them to social networks. Qwiki updates featured Qwikis on it’s home page and iPad app. Qwiki initially created an iPad app that created video summaries of search terms. The terms were not disclosed, but it’s estimated that Yahoo spent between $40 million and $50 million to acquire Qwiki. Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) continued its spending spree Wednesday when it announced that it would acquire Qwiki, an iOS app that automatically turns pictures, music and videos into a slideshow.
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