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| Yahoo Tabs Coming "Old" |
Yahoo has been full of drastic updates, as it struggles to remain relevant in the ever-competitive world of the Internet. Newcomers are always coming out with newer and more innovative ideas for user interaction.
Do free web-based email users really want their services to remain cutting edge and appealing? We are talking about everyone from your average internet user, all the way down to someone’s grandma who can barely keep track of who all they have emailed in the first place. Perhaps it is best to leave these types of service as the most user friendly, rather than cutting edge.
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| Yahoo Mail |
For some unlucky users, Yahoo's email service has been down for nearly a week. Theproblem first began at 10:27 PM PT last Monday, and since that time, Yahoo's team of engineers have been working feverishly to fully restore service. Things are taking longer than expected because the issue is "much more complex than it seemed at first," Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer stated in a apologetic blog post.
According to Mayer, the problem was traced back to a specific hardware outage in one of Yahoo's storage systems serving 1 percent of its users. At the time, Yahoo expected to have things fully operational by 1:30 PM PT on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the outage first began.
"However, the problem was a particularly rare one, and the resolution for the affected accounts was nuanced since different users were impacted in different ways," Mayer explained. "Some of the affected users were unable to access their accounts, instead seeing an outdated 'scheduled maintenance' page which was a confusing and incorrect message (this has since been corrected and updated). Further, messages sent to those accounts during this time were not delivered, but held in a queue."
The good news here is that there's a big, bright light at the end of the tunnel. Yahoo has been providing ongoing updates on its a specific Help page, the last of which was posted yesterday indicating that 99.9 percent of Yahoo Mail users are now able to access their accounts. Furthermore, the outage message queue is completely cleared and IMAP access is now 100 percent restored.
Source : HotHardware
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CEO Marissa Mayer |
Yahoo confirmed the outage at the time but details were sketchy about what caused it or how many people were affected. Mayer’s post Friday sheds a little bit more light on the fiasco.
”Unfortunately, the outage was much more complex than it seemed at first, which is why it's taking us several days to resolve the compounding issues,” she wrote.
Yahoo’s Mail engineering team was alerted Monday night to a hardware outage in one of the company’s storage systems serving 1 percent of Yahoo’s users, she said. With around 100 million daily users, that implies about a million users may have been affected at the start of the week.
The Mail team immediately started working with storage engineers to restore access and move to back-up systems, expecting a full recovery by Tuesday afternoon, Mayer wrote Friday.
”However, the problem was a particularly rare one, and the resolution for the affected accounts was nuanced since different users were impacted in different ways,” she wrote.
For instance, some people saw an outdated “scheduled maintenance” page while trying to log in to their accounts, which was an incorrect message.
Stable by Friday
As of the post Friday afternoon, Mail had been restored to almost everyone, Mayer said, and the backlog of messages had been delivered. The company will continue to roll out IMAP access and restore people’s inboxes, including returning messages in folders and starring messages, she said.
”We’re going to be working hard on improvements to prevent issues like this in the future,” she said.
The problems are unfortunate, given how important Mail is to Yahoo. As one of its most prominent products, improving the service has been a focus to attract new users to the company.
Via : PCWorld
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Yahoo’s Mail service remains down for some users a day after the company said access would be restored.
The problem began affecting users Monday night, due to a hardware problem in one of its mail data centers, said Jeffrey Bonforte, senior VP of communication products, in a statement recently posted on Tumblr.
Yahoo first acknowledged the outage early Tuesday afternoon Eastern time in a post on its Facebook page, as well as on Twitter. Yahoo said it was aiming to restore access within the next few hours after those posts but, as of Wednesday morning, Mail was still down for some people.
”The issue has been harder to fix than we originally expected,” Bonforte said. Dozens of the company’s employees are working to get the problem fixed by 6 p.m. Eastern time, he said.
Source : PCWorld
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| Yahoo |
Yahoo may soon be broadcasting more concerts following its acquisition of live music streaming startup Evntlive.
Yahoo has acquired the young company as part of an effort to expand its entertainment offerings, a Yahoo spokeswoman confirmed Friday. It didn’t say how much it paid for Evntlive, which launched a beta of its service only this past April.
Eight Evntlive employees will join Yahoo at its Sunnyvale, California, headquarters. The service will be shut down, however, and it remains to be seen how Yahoo will use the talent it has acquired.
Despite its young age, Evntlive had streamed hundreds of performances from artists and festivals, it said in its own announcement. Its service let users stream concerts live or on-demand to their desktops, tablets and smartphones. Evntlive also streamed artist interviews and music videos, according to a cached version of its site.
Yahoo has been on an acquisition blitz since Marissa Mayer joined as CEO last year. Friday’s deal stands out because it bolsters a big area of focus for Yahoo: media and entertainment. Evntlive’s team is joining Yahoo’s video business unit, which provides original and third-party news, sports, entertainment and other content. The unit includesYahoo Screen, which aggregates video from across other Yahoo sites. Popular videos on the site right now include a presentation of Nelson Mandela photos, courtesy of Yahoo’s “Weekly Flickr” series.
Yahoo also has its Yahoo Music site, which offers videos from Yahoo and third parties like Rolling Stone magazine.
Source : PCWorld
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| Ptch |
Until then, you’ll be able to download your ‘ptches’ if you’re a user, or save them out to your camera roll. The announcement was made on the Ptch blog this afternoon.
“As part of the Yahoo team,” the announcement reads, “we’ll be able to focus our efforts and leverage our technology to make Yahoo’s photo and video platforms the best in the world.”
Due to the text of the announcement and the fact that the product will be shuttered, we’re calling this one an acqui-hire. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Ptch was an app that started inside DreamWorks Animation, as a project of its CTO Ed Leonard, who ended up taking on the CEO role. Co-founder Hans Ku also worked at DreamWorks. When we spoke to the Ptch team last year, there were around 20 of them, about one-third of which came from DreamWorks. About two-thirds of them came from outside places like Yahoo and Myspace. Now, it looks like some of them will boomerang back to the big purple.
Source : TechCrunch
Shares in translation software provider Babylon rose as much as 25 percent on Monday after Yahoo said it would maintain a cooperation agreement that accounts for a big chunk of the Israeli firm's sales.
Yahoo signed a four-year deal with Babylon earlier this year under which the two firms would share revenue from advertising. But last month Yahoo said it found violations in the agreement and Babylon promised to fix the issues.
"Due to the pro-active actions taken by (Babylon), Yahoo does not intend to suspend or cancel the agreement," Babylon said in a statement to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on Monday.
The Haaretz newspaper said the dispute had stemmed from Babylon having moved Internet display ads to spots already allocated by Yahoo to other advertisers.
Babylon said it would operate additional monitoring mechanisms to ensure similar incidents would not reoccur and that it would resume acquiring new users in careful coordination with Yahoo.
The company also reported on Monday a 16 percent drop in third quarter profit to $6.3 million. Yahoo accounted for 38 percent of Babylon's third quarter revenue of $43 million, which was down 23 percent from a year earlier.
Babylon's shares were up 15.7 percent in afternoon trade in Tel Aviv, after rising as much as 25 percent.
The company also had a cooperation deal with Google, which accounted for 37 percent of its revenue in the third quarter. But in late October Google said it did not plan on renewing the deal after receiving a large number of complaints that the Israeli company's softwaredid not work well with Google's Chrome browser.
This sent Babylon's shares down more than 60 percent.
The stock has since recovered some 40 percent including Monday's rise. Its market value has bounced back to 534 million shekels ($150.89 million) from 363 million on October 30, but it is still well below a value of 981 million shekels prior to Google's announcement.
Babylon also said Shanit Pe'er Tsfoni, Babylon's chief financial officer, would become chief executive officer, replacing Alon Carmeli, who previously had announced his intention to step down.
The company has had a turbulent few months. In October, Babylon said it was in advanced talks to merge with software distribution firm ironSource but these talks have been broken off for the time being. [ID:nL5N0HI03E] In September, it had dropped plans to list in the United States to pursue the ironSource talks.
Source : Reuters
The Internet giant announced in June this year it was going to recycle inactive addresses, and a month later created a watchlist that allowed users to monitor up to five Yahoo IDs and to receive a notification when they became available.
Users were charged $1.99 for the service, but security concerns raised at the time were dismissed by Yahoo who promised there would be a 30 day period between deactivation and recycling, during which it would alert senders that the mail account no longer existed, unsubscribe users to commercial email lists and send notifications to important addresses such as banks.
Yahoo Mail recycling
However, the first batch of new owners are still claiming they receive sensitive information such as passwords and personally identifiable information, with one user saying he had access to the former owner’s Facebook account and knew the last four digits of their social security number.
Yahoo told TechWeekEurope it had taken a number of steps to ensure the transfer of email addresses was handled securely. It said the accounts it recycled hadn’t been used in more than a year and it made a number of attempts to warn the affected user. It then deleted all private data from the account and sent the aforementioned measures to prevent emails intended for the previous user from reaching the new user’s inbox.
“We also collaborated with email service providers, merchants and other large email senders so they were aware of this effort, and worked extensively to get the word out directly to our users,” said a company spokesperson. “Additionally, we’re in the process of rolling out a feature in Yahoo Mail called ‘Not My Email’ where users can report that an email is not intended for them. We continue to look for ways to protect our users.”
Source : Tech Week Europe
Yahoo will begin offering a new ‘Not My Email’ button this week that gives owners of newly claimed, previously dormant, user names the ability to ‘return’ messages that were not meant for them. This is part of Yahoo’s ongoing efforts to mitigate any potential harm that may come from its recent ‘user name recycle program‘.
In order to continue providing tools to prevent these newly minted owners from getting the previous users’ email, Yahoo is doing a few things including the new button. The button, which will be easily accessible from the Yahoo Mail inbox, will allow users to reject mail that isn’t theirs. This will function in a similar manner to the way you can put a ‘not at this address’ message on physical mail that comes to your house by mistake.
The program, which allowed people to claim names that were deemed dormant by Yahoo, came under immediate skeptical fire for its potential to be harmful or dangerous to the privacy of the previous owners of the names. After the initial outcry, Yahoo outlined a series of steps it took to prevent issues including a 12-month minimum on dormancy, 30 days of messages to the user to notify them that their account was going to be given away and bouncing emails back to senders to notify them that the account was deactivated and no longer valid.
But anecdotal evidence over the intervening weeks that there are users who are receiving the previous occupant’s messages has continued to roll in. Most recently, an InformationWeek articlecited several first-hand experiences of users getting email not intended for them, including financial information and other personal details.
We spoke with Yahoo Senior Director, Platforms Dylan Casey about the issues some users are seeing and he acknowledged that there have been some cases. Yahoo has been monitoring its systems for claims about mistaken deliveries and were able to quickly identify what was going on with some of these accounts.
Yahoo discovered that in some cases, the email bounce method was not enough to convince institutions and senders that the email was no longer valid. The signals that Yahoo were giving off to inform senders that they should no longer send any email to this address for the old owner were not being recognized.
We’re hearing that the percentage is very, very small, even in light of the sheer number of users of Yahoo’s service. Casey would only tell us that there was a small enough number that he was able to reach out to many of the accounts that reported issues personally to figure out what was going on.
The new ‘Not My Email’ button will allow users to train their inboxes, rejecting email even before they’ve read it if they recognize it’s not meant for them from the subject line. Casey says that they’re also doing individual outreach to any users or senders that they can. The risk, Casey says, is mitigated to some degree by the fact that financial institutions rarely send detailed information in emails any more. Most basic security precautions have banks sending links to log in rather than statements, for instance.
Yahoo is also continuing to investigate and improve the program. In addition to encouraging senders to subscribe to its new Require Recipient Valid Since (RRVS) protocol — developed with Facebook — it says that it is also reaching out to vendors like eBay, Paypal, Amazon and Walmart to more effectively target email to current users, rather than the previous name-holders.
Casey notes that the potential target area of many of the claimed emails is much bigger than average. This is due to the fact that they’re largely ‘initials’ or first-name at Yahoo addresses. This means that people filling out forms for hotels may give a fake name@yahoo answer in a field, resulting in misdirected hotel invoices.
Yahoo is providing resources to help old users of email addresses reclaim their accounts if they wish or need to and is taking a number of other steps:
- Account reclamation for users who’ve
lost their namereceived notice that it will be released - Outreach to users as prompt and in as many ways as possible (phone, email, etc.)
- Extending grace periods for inactive accounts
Companies recycle usernames all of the time, but email is a uniquely personal thing and becomes a repository for personal and financial information. It’s only reasonable that it should require the utmost care and consideration when ‘freeing’ these identities for others to use. Yahoo appears, at least from the steps mentioned above, to be taking it seriously and the issues don’t seem incredibly wide-spread.
In the end this is about more than just Yahoo, but Casey says that he hopes Yahoo’s efforts to both release the names and ensure that users don’t get mis-delivered email will ‘help the internet’ in the long run. The argument is simple: Yahoo is far from the last company who is going to have to deal with ‘user ID fatigue’ in the long run.
Twitter already deals with it, and it’s a much younger company. Short or first-name usernames are in high demand and no one wants to be known as Matthew563527bslash6. Google is trying to link real names to online identities but will likely run up against Gmail user fatigue hard soon enough, if it hasn’t already. Yahoo is doing it on a large scale and is probably one of the first to have to plow through some of these issues as it’s an old company by ‘Internet’ standards. But its trials are just the beginning.
The new button will roll out before the end of the week and should help users with a direct ‘return to sender, address unknown’ option, but the ‘account fatigue’ and reset questions are just beginning to rear their heads. How this will play out over the next 10 years of the internet will be interesting.
Source : TechCrunch
In April, Yahoo redesigned its news-focused iOS app to emphasize personalization, photos, and article summaries generated by Summly. With iOS 7 landing today, the company is adding a new set of features to the app, while refining the design to make it feel lighter and more fluid.
The stream of news has an updated look, with lighter fonts and a design that emphasizes photos for every story. A handful of stories each day will include cinemagraphs, subtly animating photos in the app to make articles feel more lively. Perhaps the last major news app not to have push notifications for breaking news, Yahoo is finally getting them with today's update.
YAHOO IS FINALLY GETTING PUSH NOTIFICATIONS FOR BREAKING NEWS
If you're short on time when you check the app, you can now save articles to read later inside the app, Pocket-style. For now the saving feature is limited to the app, but within a few days, you'll be able to save articles on Yahoo.com as well. Saved articles will synchronize across devices, and they're also stored locally for offline reading.
Yahoo won't say how many people use the app, but it has been downloaded millions of times on Android alone. Fernando Delgado, the company's senior director of product management for mobile products, says daily active users have grown by 50 percent since the redesign four months ago. The app's personalization strategy, which combines editorial curation with machine learning, are drawing users back more frequently, he says.
The update is out on iOS today; an Android version is in the works.
Source The Verge
Yahoo has been super busy lately, and it shows no sign of slowing down. The Internet giant on Monday launched a new, free video-streaming app for iOS devices, dubbed Screen.
"Heading home, turning the TV on and channel-surfing is something that a lot of us do every day," Yahoo's director of product management, Robby Stein, wrote in a blog post announcing the new app. "This daily experience is what we wanted to recreate with our new Yahoo Screen app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch."
The app, created by Yahoo's mobile team in New York, lets you swipe through channels of content from Yahoo and its partners, then stream it wherever you are. You can browse trending clips, or search for specific shows, as well as skip between episodes by swiping to the left and right, or flip to a different channel by swiping up or down.
The app currently features what Yahoo is calling its Fall 2013 Comedy Lineup, which includes more than 1,000 hours of funny. There's archive clips of Saturday Night Live, as well as new Yahoo originals likeGhost Girls featuring Jack Black,Losing it with John Stamos, andTiny Commando. Yahoo also announced a new deal with Viacom to bring clips from popular Comedy Central shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to the app.
Besides comedy, the app features news, sports, food, and entertainment content from providers like MLB, UFC, The Onion, and Martha Stewart.
"We want Yahoo Screen to be a place where you can customize your experience to your liking while continually discovering new things to watch and share," Stein wrote. "We hope to make Yahoo Screen the destination for the world's best video creators and their awesome content."
Yahoo Screen is available for download now in the App Store.
Source : PCMag
Yahoo said Friday that it has received 12,444 requests for data from the U.S. governmentso far this year that covers the accounts of 40,322 users overall.
In its first government transparency report, the Web giant said it rejected just 2 percent of those federal government requests. Yahoo released the report to share some data about what governments around the world have asked the firm to disclose about its users in the first half of 2013.
As with other technology companies, Yahoo said that the report includes statistics for requests made through national security letters and those made under the Foreign Intelligence Service Act, in addition to other requests from law enforcement.
The company also broke down how many of those requests yielded data — 37 percent disclosed the content of Yahoo accounts, such as words in e-mails, photos or uploaded files. In about 55 percent of the requests made, the company disclosed information about its users that did not involve content but gave information such as names, location data and e-mail addresses. In six percent of cases, the requests yielded no data because, for example, “the account didn’t exist or there was no data for the date range specified by the request,” Yahoo said.
The company also shared the number of requests it received from the governments of 16 other countries. The statistics do not include Yahoo properties that have received fewer than nine requests in the reporting period, excluding Yahoo Columbia and Yahoo Hispanic America. It also omits data from Yahoo Japan, in which Yahoo now owns a minority stake.
Requests to Tumblr, owned by Yahoo, are also not included in the report, though Yahoo said the blogging platform will release its own report in the future.
In a company blog post, Yahoo underscored that it takes steps to fight requests that it believes do not comply with the law.
“Our legal department demands that government data requests be made through lawful means and for lawful purposes. We regularly push back against improper requests for user data, including fighting requests that are unclear, improper, overbroad or unlawful,” wrote Ron Bell, Yahoo’s general counsel.
In 2008 Yahoo unsuccessfully challenged amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as unconstitutional. A FISA court judge recently ruled in July that the company had the right to ask the U.S. government to consider sharing more information on that court case.
In Friday’s report, the company said it disagrees with the U.S. government’s current policy on the disclosure of national security letters, or NSLs. The government will allow some providers to publicly disclose a range of the NSLs they receive, but only by 1,000 at a time. That means that even if a company receives one such request, they must say they’ve received anywhere from zero to 1,000 of them.
Yahoo and other technology firms are working to get permission to release the exact numbers of these types of requests.
“We strenuously disagree with the government’s position and will continue to advocate for greater transparency regarding requests made under national security authorities,” the company said in its report. “If we succeed in persuading the U.S. Government to allow greater transparency, we will disclose additional details in future reports, and we will also update this report with more details related to national security requests as permitted.”
Bell said that Yahoo plans to release a transparency report every six months.
Source : Washington Post
For the first time in 18 years Yahoo has changed its logo. Sneak is a big fan of design; his favourite movie is Helvetica, so when Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer took to her Tumblr blog to talk us through the changes, Sneak was naturally excited.
The old logo was certainly jaunty to say the very least. A serif font, which seemed to lollop up and down like a faithful golden retriever fetching a stick, it certainly worked back in the 1990s. But times have changed.
Mayer describes a weekend away with a small design team, putting together the new icon, which sounds like quite a lot of fun. "We spent the majority of Saturday and Sunday designing the logo from start to finish, and we had a ton of fun weighing every minute detail," she wrote. "We knew we wanted a logo that reflected Yahoo – whimsical, yet sophisticated. Modern and fresh, with a nod to our history. Having a human touch, personal. Proud."
Much like Samsung's groundbreaking ‘designed for humans' slogan, Mayer and her team wanted a logo that represented nature. The team also made sure that the letters all had different stroke sizes, in addition to little "scallops" at the tip of each line to supplement the now-defunct serifs.
The biggest non-font change was the addition of a slightly 3D effect, with the letters getting a chiselled look with slightly different shades of purple to show depth – much like the depth of Yahoo's diaspora of products, Sneak presumes. And, of course, the exclamation mark is tilted by exactly nine degrees, much more daring than eight but thankfully safer than 10, which would have been far too quirky.
Source : V3
Yahoo! attracted more website visitors in the United States than Google during July, pushing the company to the top of the online league for the first time in two years.
Nearly 197 million individuals visited a Yahoo! website last month, according to rankings from comScore, versus 192 million for Google. The last time Yahoo! outperformed Google was in May 2011.
The improvement suggests that changes under chief executive Marissa Mayer, who was recruited from Google, are beginning to resonate with the online audience. Mayer has revamped the Yahoo! home page, as well as email and weather services.
The Yahoo! audience total does not include traffic to its newly acquired blogging platform Tumblr, which came in as the 28th most popular site with 38 million visitors.
"No online media outlet would have come close to predicting this, and if they had, you would have said they were insane," said Ed Barton, director of digital media at Strategy Analytics. "This will probably have a positive impact on the share price and if Yahoo! keeps this up, it has a chance of becoming relevant again."
However, comScore's data only paints a partial picture, because it does not include mobile phone usage, which now accounts for a significant amount of Google traffic
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Yahoo has topped Google as the most visited website in the U.S. last month, according to the latest report from comScore.
Yahoo received 196.6 million unique visitors last month, compared to 192.3 million for Google. This is the first time Yahoo has returned to the top spot for U.S. web traffic since May 2011, comScore tells Marketing Land.
The traffic haul does not include data from Tumblr, acquired by Yahoo earlier this year for $1 billion, says comScore.
Yahoo's return to the top is another victory during the tenure of Marissa Mayer, who recently marked her first year as the company's CEO. Shares of Yahoo have nearly doubled in value since she took over.
source usatoday
Football season is coming up fast, and that means it's
probably time for fans of fantasy football to get started with their
teams. The right software can make pouring over stats and tracking news
considerably easier, and Yahoo just updated its Fantasy Sports Football
app for the 2013 Football season on Android and iOS. It's sleeker, faster, and still pipes in tons of data.
To get started with the app, you'll need to have a Yahoo ID
so you can join or start a league. The app itself accepts logins from
Google and Facebook as well. In the new revamped app, you can draft
players from your device rather than going to the web. There are even
mock drafts so you can try out different lineups. The roster can also be
managed as needed during the season for trades and backups.
The app updates individual stats and scoring in real time
as the games are happening. You can just pop open Fantasy Sports and see
exactly how you're doing in the league. For better long-term planning,
Yahoo Fantasy Sports Football includes breaking news alerts, and a feed
of all the relevant news. The breaking alerts are customized for your
roster, as well.
Message boards are also built into the app so you can keep
up with other team managers in your league--or to gloat. Whichever way
you want to go.
The app's interface has been refreshed in this update. The
UI is actually very similar on Android and iOS. The developers did this
by not adhering too closely to the design guidelines of either platform.
That's a risky way to go, but the result is pretty good. The app is
mostly dark grey with white text and a series of tabs along the bottom
for navigation. The tablet UI uses a slide-out panel on the left for
navigation.
The Fantasy Sports Football feels responsive and you can't argue with
the price of zero dollars. You might want to give it a look before the
draft starts.source [[ pcmag ]]
The company said the renovated Yahoo search makes it easier for users to get the information they want by placing search results higher on the page than they were previously located. Yahoo has also improved the infrastructure of its search website so search results will load faster than before.
Additionally, Yahoo has added a new navigation bar at the top of the page so users can find use other Yahoo Web services. The company said this feature will roll out to other Yahoo services over time.
The company announced the Yahoo Search redesign on its Tumblr account, where it also included an animated GIF that compares the old version of Yahoo Search with the new one that launched Wednesday.
The Yahoo search redesign is the latest major change at the company since Marissa Mayer took over as chief executive almost one year ago.
Most recently, Mayer acquired Tumblr, a popular social network with teens and young adults, for more than $1 billion and Yahoo also gave a major redesign to Flickr, its photo-sharing social network.
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The partnership will make it easier to send, receive and manage attachments in Yahoo! Mail. In case you’ve forgotten, Yahoo! Mail is still the No. 3 most-used mail service in the world behind Hotmail and Gmail. But the last time we checked, it was No. 1 in the United States. By acting nimbly, the company can add small tweaks and enhancements thanks to partnerships like this that will give it a potential edge against the competition.
This is good news for both companies, specifically Dropbox. This brings a new audience to the service, which has become a mainstay in the workplace and small teams of collaborators. Yahoo! has fresh users that might not be turned on to Dropbox lined up and waiting to try new things. If users don’t have a Dropbox account, they can simply sign up for one via Yahoo! Mail. That also means more potential revenue for Dropbox once these users fill up their free 2GB.
Here’s what David McDowell, Senior Director of Product Management on Yahoo! Mail had to say about the partnership:
Starting today, Dropbox is available within Yahoo! Mail. This integration allows you to share and store files more easily, whether they are vacation photos or important documents like tax returns and research papers. And, because files can be stored in your Dropbox account online, it’s easy to find the files you want even when you are away from your desktop.
Dropbox is available within Yahoo! Mail for the Web in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian. For those of you new to Dropbox, you can quickly create an account from within Yahoo! Mail.
On the Dropbox blog, the company discusses the advantages of managing all of your attachments using their service, including not having to worry about file sizes. Additionally, you’ll be able to share whole albums of photos to emails, no doubt in a push from the recently acquired Snapjoy team, which is really handy. This will all be rolling out to everyone today.
This is the second major move that Dropbox has made in the email space, the first being the acquisition of popular, and hard to get into, mobile app Mailbox. Interestingly enough, sources tell us that Yahoo! was making a serious push to acquire Mailbox, so it’s fun to see them working together in one form another.
If you can’t acquire them, partner with them.
We’ve asked Yahoo! about whether this replaces the partnership that they have with YouSendIt, which basically allowed users to perform the same tasks that Dropbox does. We will update this post if/when we hear back.
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