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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Today Yahoo claimed that it had bought advanced iOS photo application developer GhostBird.
The trade details were not published but Yahoo nade it clear that they purchased GhostBird in order to improve Flickr.
Befor being bought GhostBird has launched 3 iOS photo application and they were KitCam,PhotoForge and PhotoForge 2. KitCam face the mobile photographing users who use some different "lens" and "filters" to take phote and it also support the mannually set on white balance, explosure,etc. Then the series of PhotoForge focus on
the editional function after the photo was taken and it support to change the image size, cutting, medata editing and advanced adjust of curve and color gradation,etc.
GhostBird on its website claimed that the above any application won't be for further development and the company doesn't plan to support new version of iOS. Besides the application of GhostBird once dissapere from cell phone will not be able to download again. GhostBird said" the customers who had bought the application but didin't install on the equipment won't be able to redownload. From today KitCam and PhotoForge won't support the App Store to download.
Moreover, GhostBird studio can be a little quiet over the past few months. A few months ago it would publish a few tweets every week but the last tweet before the news that it claimed to buy was 17th Mar. At the same time PhotoForge 2 and KitCam will stop updating at the end of March.


Yahoo! will dispose inactive ID in the past one year from  next month.At that time,the users will have more ID options,some even can apply for the ID they want earlier.Jay Rossiter which is Yahoo vice President said,"We hope that we can provide our loyal users and new users oppotunities to get the account number they want.
In mid-july,users will be able to get his dream ID.If the users want to keep his yahoo ID,then he needs to use the current login yahoo ID again before July 15.

According to the report of America Tech. Blog website BusinessInsider Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was auctioning lunch time for one hour through Charity sale websitwe to raise money for a school. If you want to feel one of the world famous companies' charging person in close range please join in the auction activity and you can have the chance to have lunch with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer at the headquarters of Sunnyvale, California company.
So far 5,000 US dollar is the highest bid so if anybody finally wants to get the meeting with Mayer he must bid 5,250 US dollar at least. About 2 weeks ago the CEO Tim Cook of Apple company also auctioned "lunch time" for one hour and clinched the deal with 610,000 US dollar.
Mayer join yahoo in July 2012, served as President and CEO.She focuses on building first-class products, and strives to become the best employer.Under her leadership, yahoo to redesign its many products, including yahoo! Mail, homepage, Flickr, yahoo weather, etc.
Before joining yahoo, mayer has served at Google for 13 years with a number of positions, such as engineers, designers, product managers.She played an important role in development in Google searching and had served as head of product management team for more than 10 years.
Mayer also leaded and developed some of the most successful products, such as Google maps, street view, Google Local, Zagat, Google Toolbar and iGoogle and helped to define the news, Gmail and Google Chrome and other core products. She also held more than 10 talents in the of artificial intelligence and interface design ten patents.

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