• Yahoo's Contextual Homescreen App Aviate Adds A Smart "Listening Space" For Music Lovers

  Aviate, the contextual Android homescreen application Yahoo bought for $80 million in January, has rolled out an update today which introduces a smart "Listening Space" that allows users to more easily find their music applications in one section, while also being pointed to relevant…

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• Flickr cofounder launches 'email killer' Slack to the world

  Slack emerged out of beta today and introduced a tiered pricing model.

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• Yahoo teams on mobile context research with Carnegie Mellon

  Yahoo has inked a deal with Carnegie Mellon University to test machine-learning research, new mobile interfaces, and natural-language recognition on search and other real-time data. Dubbed Project InMind, the five … Continue reading

• Slack, Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield's Business Collaboration App, Exits Beta & Goes Freemium

  Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr who eventually left its acquirer Yahoo and started TinySpeck (and an ill-fated multiplayer game called Glitch), last year decided to take a different turn, porting his expertise in consumer services to tackle the enterprise market. The result was Slack,…

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