Yahoo Acquires Location Discovery App Startup in Mobile Push

Yahoo has acquired Alike, a location-discovery app, for an undisclosed sum as part of its continued push into mobile under new CEO Marissa Mayer.

Alike announced Tuesday that it will join the Yahoo Mobile team where it will work on building "personalized" and "intelligent" mobile experiences for Yahoo's users. "In Yahoo! we've found a team as excited about this vision as we are, and who are serious about making it real," Alike wrote in a statement on its website. "We're super excited to join Yahoo!'s mobile team, where we can march toward that vision faster than ever."

The iPhone app, which was launched by Seattle-based startup UrbanQ in October of last year, helps users discover venue…
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