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Backing up her strategy of focusing on personalized mobile software and acquiring startups, Marissa Mayer has announced acquisition of Aviate , an app looking to build simple and intelligent home screen for phone. The internet giant Yahoo’s CEO made the announcement today in her keynote speech at the ongoing CES 2014 . The amount of acquisition however hasn’t been revealed yet. Aviate ; an android-based application available in its invite only beta phase wants to make our phones smarter and self-organized. The app was launched in its beta phase in last October and has received a good feedback from thousands of its users. The app has reportedly raised more than £2 million in financing. Including Aviate, Yahoo has acquired 31 startups till date under the leadership of Marissa Mayer. Soon after the announcement at CES, Yahoo shared the acquisition news on its tumblr blog. According to the blog, Aviate shares Yahoo’s vision for simple and intelligent mobile experiences. “We hope to make A...

5 Years in the age of internet is a long long time. And nowhere is this evident more than in Social Media scenario. Social Media actions such as likes, tweets, photo/video uploads and other user generated contents are now counted in fraction of seconds. More than 3.8 billion users were reported to be on Social Media sites in 2013 and this figure keeps increasing day by day. Here’s an interesting infographic from HootSuite of what has changed in Social media in last five years. Main Highlight from the Social Media infographic : There are more than 1.7 billion ACTIVE social media users in the world. As the infographic was created by Hootsuite, it includes milestones for Hootsuite itself. What other changes in Social Media do you find interesting in the infographic?