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"Yahoo has acquired the to-do list app Astrid, which will continue running as is for the next 90 days.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Over the next 90 days, Astrid will continue to work as is, and we will no longer be accepting new premium subscriptions. To make future changes as easy as possible, we\u2019ll be in touch with users shortly to share how to download data,&amp;quot; Astrid said in a blog post.\r\n\r\nAstrid co-founder Jon Paris revealed that the company's apps had been downloaded over 4 million times. He thanked the company's investors and mentors, including\u00A0Thomas Korte, AngelPad,\u00A0Google Ventures and its Startup Lab, Nexus Venture Partners, TMT Investments, Jump Associates, LUXr\u00A0and unnamed angel investors.\r\n\r\nThe 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.\r\n\r\nParis also noted that Yahoo will\u00A0hand out refunds to users that paid for annual subscriptions and premium add-ons such as the Power-Pack and Locale Plugins.\r\n\r\nYahoo has been moving quickly to acquire the talent and technology it needs to stage a comeback. In March, the company acquired Summly, a much-talked-about app for summarizing news articles, just days after picking up Jybe, a startup focusing on personalized recommendations.\r\n\r\nCEO Marissa Mayer is also aggressively pursuing original content and media partnerships. Earlier this week, Yahoo announced six new original Web series, as well as a partnership with World Wrestling Entertainment. Mayer also recently took the wraps off an exclusive agreement with Saturday Night Live.\r\n\r\nYahoo also made a bid for a majority stake\u00A0of the Dailymotion video service, but the French government reportedly opposed the move because it didn't want to lose control of one of the country's few Web startup successes to a US firm.\r\n\r\nPhoto credit:\u00A0David Paul Morris/Getty Images\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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