• Yahoo acquires startup Zofari to bolster local search

  With its latest purchase, Yahoo looks to strengthen its local-recommendation chops.

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• Yahoo buys recommendation service Zofari [UPDATE]

  Yahoo has bought recommendation platform Zofari, Zofari's founders announced today. "After meeting some of the amazing folks on the Yahoo Search team and hearing about their vision, the decision for our team to join Yahoo was an easy one," reads the announcement. "We can't talk about what…

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• Yahoo Acquires 'Pandora For Places' App Zofari

   Another acquisition for Yahoo, this one focused on improving the company's local search capabilities: it has bought Zofari, a local recommendation app that uses machine learning, natural language processing and third-party data from sources like Foursquare to extract information that matches you…

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