Four Yahoo Apps Debut on Apple Watch
April 16 2015 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Innovative experiences guide you to need-to-know information on
your wrist
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) today announced four Yahoo apps on Apple
Watch that will be available on April 24 - Yahoo Weather, Yahoo
Sports Fantasy, Yahoo News Digest, and Yahoo News Hong Kong. These
innovative apps were reimagined and simplified for the watch,
allowing Yahoo to deliver a highly engaging and personal experience
in a new way.
“We’re always looking at how users will engage new form factors,
and we’ve taken the wrist computer as an opportunity to rethink our
product experiences. Design generally loves constraint, so we
rebuilt for the simplicity and user expectations of this screen,”
said Adam Cahan, Yahoo’s senior vice president of mobile and video.
“For the Apple Watch, in particular, we’ve added top of the hour
updates from Yahoo News Digest and included micro-summaries with a
new speed reading feature, for Yahoo Weather we’ve added “feels
like” for an immediate at-a-glance visual update, and with Yahoo
Sports Fantasy we’ve included Smack Talk with dictation. We hope
you love using them.”
Leveraging Yahoo’s great content and technology, these new apps
are perfectly suited for the Apple Watch as Yahoo looks to
effortlessly guide users to information with Glances. The highly
visual, beautiful and simple presentation give users a microsummary
of the information, which they can tap into to learn more.
Yahoo’s app experiences on Apple
Watch:
- Yahoo Weather App on Apple Watch will
feature morning updates and evening forecasts through
notifications. With a Glance, users can find out if it’s a t-shirt
or sweater day with Yahoo’s new “feels like” feature, or learn more
about the conditions outside by tapping into the app.
- With the Yahoo Sports Fantasy App,
users can see what’s going on in their matchups or check on their
lineup for injuries with a Glance. They can even talk smack with
their league using the Apple Watch dictation feature.
- Yahoo News Digest brings users in the
U.S. the most important story on the hour, every hour so they are
always up-to-date. Enjoy new microsummaries, visual atoms such as a
map, stock ticker or infographic that bring the story to life, and
a brand new speed reading feature to get you in-the-know in
seconds.
- With the Yahoo News Hong Kong App,
users in Hong Kong will receive breaking news delivered to their
wrist and enjoy the top 10 headlines of the hour with a
Glance.
Yahoo apps for Apple Watch are available for free in the App
Store.
About Yahoo
Yahoo is a guide focused on making users’ daily habits inspiring
and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for
our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them,
across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for
advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their
businesses. Yahoo is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and
has offices located throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific (APAC)
and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. For more
information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the
Company’s blog (yahoo.tumblr.com).
Yahoo! Inc.Media RelationsAna Braskamp,
408-349-4040media@yahoo-inc.com
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