The new Yahoo app delivers better mobile content discovery now on Android and iPhone

Press release

Published July 31st, 2014 - 04:47 GMT

Yahoo is introducing the new Yahoo app for Android and iPhone that brings the best of the web with an experience designed for your phone.

The new Yahoo app for Android and iPhone offers a beautiful and immersive experience that helps you get the news you need and the stories you love. You can easily share your favorite stories right from the news stream. For each article, you will find buttons to share via Mail, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more. You can also save your favorite articles to read later.

Swiping left-to-right to move through stories allows you to see a snapshot of each article before you read it for those on-the-go moments.

The Yahoo app brings together the best of the web so that you can easily search, check the weather, get the top headlines from Yahoo News Digest, and see popular Flickr photos. Just tap the Y icon in the upper right hand corner to access them all in one place.

Background Information

Yahoo!

Yahoo! is an innovative technology company that operates the largest digital media, content, and communications business in the world. Yahoo! keeps more than half a billion consumers worldwide connected to what matters to them most, and delivers powerful audience solutions to advertisers through its unique combination of Science + Art + Scale.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. Yahoo! acquired largest Arab community "Maktoob" in 2009 to form "Yahoo! Maktoob" portal.