Yahoo unveils new Flickr app for iPad

Yahoo-owned Flickr used to only be available on iPhones on iOS operating system. Now, it has a new iPad app that can support the Retina display of the old iPad Air and iPad mini as well as the new iPad mini and iPad Air 2. However, Flickr 3.2 app will only work with iOS 8. What you will get is the ability to see “up to 3,000,000 pixels per photo.” That number is roughly the amount of pixels on the devices’ 2048 x 1056 screens. You can view your Flickr feed in landscape and portrait, take photos with your iPad, and add live filters and histogram to your shots.

Source: VentureBeat | Download: Apple iTunes App Store (Free)

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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