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"Yahoo announced the acquisitions of both MileWise and GoPollGo Thursday. Both startups will be shutting down their services and joining Yahoo's mobile teams \u2014 Five people from MileWise will be reporting to Robby Stein's mobile office in New York, while GoPollGo's three founders will join Yahoo's mobile group in Sunnyvale, Calif., a spokesperson for Yahoo said.\nYahoo did not reveal the terms of the deals, nor how the companies' respective technologies might be used at Yahoo.\nMileWise is a four-year-old search app that let users factor in airline miles as well as hotel and credit card points when searching for flights. The site automatically kept track of users' rewards programs in one place, and then used that information when conducting flight searches. Its founders raised $1.5 million in debt funding from a long list of investors, including Atlas Venture and Founder Collective, in January 2011.\nGoPollGo is a two-year-old startup that developed a polling tool that could be quickly deployed on the web and even directly on Facebook and Twitter. It raised a $425,000 seed round from Idealab, CrunchFund and a handful of individual investors in July 2011. Its clients included ESPN, The Weather Channel and Hotels.com.\nMileWise and GoPollGo are the latest in a string of small mobile talent and technology acquisitions made since Marissa Mayer became CEO 10 months ago. The most notable of these acquisitions was for Summly, a news summarization app for which Yahoo reportedly paid $30 million.\nImage courtesy of Milewise"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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