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• #Qwiki yahoo series

Qwiki is led by CEO and co-founder Doug Imbruce, but its other co-founder is Louis Monier, the founder of the AltaVista search site, who left the company in 2011. She has also been on the lookout for talent.

#Qwiki yahoo series

While all that pivoting seems unusual, the company recently settled on its mobile-only focus, which is just where Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been aiming Yahoo’s efforts, looking to create a series of daily apps and services to reinvigorate its offerings. And last year it hooked up with Yahoo news partner ABC News on a publishing platform to quickly create interactive stories. Qwiki recently released that app, but began as a multimedia search offering, with another iPad app that creates video summaries of search terms, as well as other video-creation tools for storytelling. “We will continue to support the Qwiki app, and the team will join Yahoo! in our New York city office to reimagine Yahoo!’s storytelling experience,” said Yahoo in a blog post. Yahoo said it will not - as it has done with most of its smaller acquisitions - kill off the brand. As AllThingsD reported two weeks ago that it was likely to do, Yahoo said it has bought Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allows users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically.ĪTD had reported a $40 million to $50 million price tag, which sources said was in the correct range.