Yahoo Mail introduces new look

Yahoo Mail's trying to play catch up in the heavily populated email app industry with the redesign of its Android and iOS apps. The new look and features are said to make it more powerful and easier to use. A new feature hopes to rid your life of passwords. The Yahoo Account Key makes its debut in this new update. It makes use of push notifications to give you a "fast and secure way" to access Yahoo accounts.

Some of the other new features include a more prominent photo experience with Twitter and Facebook integration, no more avatars, simpler way to attach photos to emails, new contact cards, long press for multi-selection, quick swipe to mark emails as read or deleted, as well as a shortcut to Yahoo News. Yahoo claims it should also handle search for keywords and people better. And for those who use multiple Yahoo accounts, Outlook.com, Hotmail, and AOL Mail, you can now integrate those into the app.

Source: Droid Life | Download: Google Play Store (Free) + Apple App Store (Free)

BBC and Yahoo partnership will bring 200 news video clips monthly to US and Canada

Yahoo is teaming up with BBC to distribute about 200 of BBC's News video clips monthly to users in Canada and the United States. Our users in North America can now engage with the BBC’s short-form video content on international news, science, tech, and business reporting.

The new collaboration with Yahoo will focus on short-form video content with a particular focus on the BBC’s international news, science, tech and business reporting drawn from the BBC’s global site BBC.com. Around 200 BBC News videos will be syndicated to Yahoo on a monthly basis and will start appearing on their sites this month.

Yahoo Livetext will be up for download July 30th

After making its appearance on the Hong Kong App Store, Yahoo’s Livetext is finally heading this way starting tomorrow, July 30^th. What is Livetext, you ask? It’s Yahoo’s new video text app that lets you send texts with videos. The catch? It doesn’t have any sound. Basically, it’s like having people, or rather the person you’re talking to, see you while you text. We’re still not quite sure if this’ll catch on. But if you’re interested in trying this out, the app will be available on Apple App Store and Google Play Store tomorrow. It’s launching here in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., France, and Germany. As mentioned, the app is already available in Hong Kong. It’s also already available in Taiwan and Ireland.

Source: MacWorld

Yahoo debuts Livetext, ‘video messenger’ app

With the countless messaging apps out on the market, it takes a unique concept to get someone to use your app. What Yahoo has in their stable is a pretty unique one. The company released a new messaging app on iOS on the Hong Kong App Store called “Yahoo Livetext”. What the app offers is instead of exchanging texts and photos, you share “live video texting.” This video messenger shows you a live video of your friend texting but without the audio. This is said to make the conversation a bit more natural since you get to see the person you’re talking to. However, the app only works one-on-one, no group chats here.

It’s available in over 20 languages and will remain a free app. You can add friends through your contacts or by looking for their Livetext IDs. The app works with Apple devices running iOS 8.0 or later and it’s been optimized for iPhone 5, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus. If this makes its way here, will you be trying this out?

Source: SlashGear