Yahoo Acquisition task management application Astrid

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time May 2 morning, according to the U.S. Science and Technology blog TheNextWeb reported that Yahoo has acquired the task management application Astrid, and the company in the next three months will continue to operate in the original mode. "In the next 90 days, Astrid will remain operational as before and we will no longer accept new subscribers," Astrid said in a blog post. To make future changes as easy as possible, we'll keep in touch with our users in the near term to discuss the best way to download the data. Astrid co-founder Joen Paris (Jon Paris) revealed that the company has exceeded 4 million downloads. He also thanked companies and individuals who had invested and helped Astrid, including Thomas Korte, Angelpad, Google Ventures and its start-up Labs (startup Lab), Nexus Venture, TMT Investments, Jump Associates, LUXR, and many angel investors. Astrid's service is unique in the field of mission management, and it enables users to outsource tasks they do not want to do by working with the TaskRabbit API. Paris also pointed out that Yahoo will have subscribed to the Astrid applications and Power-pack and locale plugins and other related services to the user. To reproduce its brilliance, Yahoo has recently launched acquisitions to acquire talent and technology. This March, Yahoo first won the mobile start-up company Jybe, and then acquired the news aggregation reading application summly. Yahoo CEO Marissa (Marissa Mayer) is also actively seeking to establish cooperation with other companies in terms of original content and media. Earlier this week, Yahoo announced the launch of six original online dramas, but also with the World Wrestling Entertainment established cooperation. In addition, Ms. Mayer recently announced an exclusive cooperation agreement with the popular TV program "Saturday Night Scene" (Saturday Night Live). Yahoo also tried to acquire a majority stake in Dailymotion, a YouTube video site, but there were reports that the French Government was opposed to the deal because it did not want to lose control of the network start-up company. (Qing Chen)