Yahoo has announced another acquisition. This time, it has acquired a San Francisco based GhostBird Software. GhostBird Software is the company behind popular photography apps KitCam and PhotoForge2. Yahoo will add features of these apps into Flickr app.
Bother KitCam and PhotoForge2 are being pulled from App stores. Users of these apps will also receive no updates but they can continue using the apps. Co-founders Travis Houlette and Ye Lu will join the Flickr team in San Francisco.
“As photography enthusiasts, we are long-time admirers of Flickr, and we’re thrilled to be able to bring our technology and passion for beautiful photos to the Flickr team. There has been so much exciting progress at Yahoo! as they re-imagine their most-loved products for mobile, including the awesome new Flickr apps for iOS and Android,” GhostBird Software Announced.
“If you already have the KitCam or PhotoForge2 apps on your devices, you will be 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,” company added.
Yahoo is trying to acquire more and more startups to get more technologies. It has also acquired Tumblr for $1 billion to increase its user base. We can not predict the future of the company but we can say that Yahoo is bedding too much on acquisition.
There is another interesting fact that GhostBird Software was totally silent from past few months. Company had tweeted last time on March 17. It has also not updated any of its apps since end of March.
TechCrunch also reported that GhostBird also had a game for iOS called The Raging Dead. The game was on zombies and received its final update in February 2010.
