Yahoo adds email filter capabilities to Mail for Android

Strangely enough, Yahoo is ahead of Google with the new feature they introduced to their Mail app for Android. Yahoo Mail now lets you create, update, and remove filters right from the mobile app. You couldn’t do that at the moment with the Gmail app. All you need to do is tap the option at the bottom of the sidebar to set up your filters. You can filter your emails by content, sender, or recipient.

Source: Android Police | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

Yahoo to enable encryption of emails for its users by 2015

Yahoo is joining the campaign to secure your emails by next year. The company’s chief information security officer Alex Stamos said they will offer users the option to send end-to-end encrypted emails by 2015 through a browser plugin. Stamos said Yahoo will bootstrap plugin with Google’s own browser extension to encrypt emails and they will make the two services compatible.

@alexstamos just announced plans to support end-to-end PGP encryption in Yahoo mail at Black Hat pic.twitter.com/j8Icp5Y9EZ

— Fahmida Y. Rashid (@zdFYRashid) August 7, 2014

Source: Mashable

Yahoo is buying Flurry

Yahoo's shopping spree continues as it is just got into  a definitive agreement to acquire Flurry. See the announcement below.

“Flurry’s success is the result of years of committed investment by a passionate team to create an indispensable platform for mobile developers. We want to harness our collective innovative spirit and bolster the mobile ecosystem by providing developers the analytics and monetization solutions to drive their success.”

Yahoo is on a mission to re-imagine users’ daily habits, and mobile is at the center of everything we do. Our agreement to acquire Flurry is a meaningful step for the company and reinforces Yahoo’s commitment to building and supporting useful, inspiring and beautiful mobile applications and monetization solutions.

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Yahoo to boost online mobile video streaming with RayV acquisition

Yahoo is serious about getting more people to watch content on its portal with its recent acquisition. Online video streaming company RayV will help boost Yahoo’s tech infrastructure when it comes to video distribution, particularly with mobile devices. The move is intended to attract more people to use Yahoo’s Screen portal, which houses videos ranging from original news to content provided by partners such as BuzzFeed, Comedy Central, and Saturday Night Live. Most of the company’s employees will join Yahoo’s R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.