UPDATED 17:09 EST / JUNE 13 2013

Could Yahoo’s Latest Buyouts Get Lost in the Shuffle?

Yahoo!’s shopping spree is far from over.  If you think its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr is the grand finale, you are mistaken.  That was just a warm up.

Yahoo made two acquisitions in just one day.  It started off with GhostBird Software, creators of iOS photography apps KitCam and PhotoForge2.  The announcement was made on Twitter, with Yahoo stating that the acquisition was made to improve Flickr.

All three sites now reflect the same statement informing everyone they have been acquired by Yahoo and that services are no longer available for download.

“If you already have the KitCam or PhotoForge2 apps on your devices, you will able to continue to use them in their current versions.  However, we will not continue to update the apps as future versions of iOS are released.  Anyone who previously purchased GhostBird Software’s apps, including KitCam and PhotoForge2, will be able to re-download those apps through iCloud.  As of today, KitCam and PhotoForge2 are no longer available for download from the App Store,” the statement read.

Yahoo ended its day with the acquisition of Rondee, a conference calling service.  Much like Yahoo’s previous acquisitions, the service will soon be retired.  All existing Rondee account holders can make conference calls until July 12, 2013, and sign in and access their data until August 12, 2013.  Rondee no longer accepts new users and is pointing everyone to InstantConference, and has arranged for Rondee Login ID and Rondee On Demand PINs to work with InstantConference.

No news yet as to what Yahoo plans to do with Rondee, but TechCrunch suggests that it could be a way for Yahoo to improve Yahoo Messenger or build something like Google+ Hangouts that could be used for personal or enterprise purposes.

Joining Kristin Feledy in this morning’s NewsDesk is SiliconANGLE Senior Managing Editor Kristen Nicole to give her Breaking Analysis on the possibility of projects in danger of getting lost in all the shuffle.

“There is always a possibility of that, especially with such a rapid acquisition strategy.  There’s been a great deal of buys in the Yahoo camp and many are very curious as to what Yahoo plans on doing with all these acquisitions.  Making sure that they are staying focused, having a unified vision and really keeping their plans in order and making sure that the technology that they are spending money on is going to the right causes, keeping that workflow going and turning it into one big product,” Kristen Nicole stated.

Kristen pointed out that Yahoo is trying to do what Google has done in the past by making as many products as they can, trashing the ones that don’t work and integrating the ones that do, into its larger services.  Google is also streamlining its services, making its various products and services work together to deliver a unified user experience, and Yahoo seems to be looking at things the same way.

For more of Kristen Nicole’s Breaking Analysis on Yahoo’s recent acquisitions, check out the NewsDesk video below:


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