Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer announced the acquisition of startup Aviate at the Consumer Electronics Show yesterday, reports Anthony Ha for TechCrunch. Aviate, which has just six employees, has developed a smart homepage that makes your most relevant apps readily available throughout the day. Aviate the latest of Mayer’s many acquisitions No word on how much spent on Aviate (compared to some of Yahoo’s other purchases since Mayer became CEO, it probably wasn’t that much), but this fits with Mayer’s pattern of expansion through acquisition, having bought 24 companies in 2013 and begun talks with image sharing site Imgur….
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