Yahoo Acquires Photo Startup Cooliris

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Is an eight-year-old company still a startup? I vaguely recall CoolIris having a plugin for the old Mozilla suite.

Similarly, is a company without any growth still a startup?

(ref: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html)

Can Yahoo and Google please stop shutting down services of start-ups they acquire?

Coolpreviews is one of my most indespensable browsing extensions and a major reason why I prefer Firefox to the alternatives. I hope they continue the project and/or alternatives appear

http://www.coolpreviews.com/

Mozilla just formed a partnership with Yahoo, but I don't know if that says anything about the life of Coolpreviews

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an...

I use hoverzoom for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom/nonjdcj...

any yahoo insider wants to share with us how all these acquihires are working out?

> More recently, the company focus shifted to a mobile app...that allowed users to browse photos from across services like Facebook, Flickr, and Dropbox.

Does anyone know whether this is a violation of those services' TOSes, and if so, how they got around it?

these services all provide APIs for viewing their data.

as long as they are within those terms i don't see what's wrong.

What is Yahoo doing anything own, other than acquiring companies?

someone in the recent mozilla-will-use-yahoo-search thread mentioned that they are going to release a significant upgrade to their search tech. Also, Yahoo! Mail is not the one you might remember form a decade ago, it's rather nice.

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