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How Aviate Supports Yahoo In Local Search

Technology that pushes local and timely information to the mobile phone owner based on location and time of day. That's Aviate, an intelligent home screen app for Android smartphones. Yahoo acquired the company. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced the acquisition earlier this week. It signals the beginning of Yahoo's move into ubiquitous search for its more than 400 million monthly active users accessing Yahoo content on their mobile device. The video accompanying The Next Web article explains how the woman using Aviate "doesn't have to look for useful information. It just changes."

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