Yahoo Redesigns Mail to Look a Lot More Like Its Homepage

Ever since Yahoo tapped Marissa Mayer as CEO in 2012, the company has employed a "mobile first" strategy, which has included acquiring an array of mobile-focused startups and redesigning its own mobile offerings.

Yahoo Mail is the latest app to get a makeover; it now features content from Yahoo's news, finance and sports and weather sections

Yahoo hasn't changed any of the mail app's core features with the update. In fact, the email itself looks pretty much the same. But the new app integrates news, weather, sports and finance into mail

"One of the design principles we had from the very beginning was, if you're a Yahoo user and you use this app on a daily basis, we want to make sure that we don't get in the way," Yahoo's senior director of product management for mobile, Fernando Delgado, told Mashable. "All the fully fledged functionality is still there and it's familiar." Read more...