Yahoo Acquires Aviate

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The latest winner of the buy us lottery is Aviate. Yahoo is buying the mobile interface developer.

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Yahoo today announced the acquisition of Aviate, a company that shares its vision for simple and intelligent mobile experiences. The Aviate team created a product that changes the way people interact with their Android devices, by making them smarter and more in context with the user's daily habits. Aviate auto-categorizes apps on the Android phone and intelligently gathers them into "spaces." By using signals to understand a person's context — such as WIFI, GPS, Accelerometer, or Time — Aviate automatically surfaces information at the moment it is useful. So whether a user is just waking up, driving, at work or out for the night, Aviate learns their digital habits and helps anticipate the information and apps they need.

Yahoo plans to make the Aviate technology a central part of its Android based experiences in 2014 and beyond and will continue to develop the product. Aviate, currently in private beta, is available to the first 25,000 people who download the app in the Google Play store and use code "YAHOO".

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Examples of Aviate's work on designing operating systems:

 

 

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