Scratching another strategic acquisition off its own to-do list, Yahoo just bought to-do list app Astrid. “The app offered a unique take on the to-do list genre by syncing up with the
TaskRabbit API to allow users to outsource tasks that they didn’t want to do themselves,” The Next Web notes. Apparently, striking a cord with users, Astrid’s apps have been
downloaded over 4 million times, the startup said.