Yahoo unveils mail, weather apps as it expands mobile offerings

April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. unveiled applications for checking e-mail on tablet computers and tracking weather forecasts on smartphones, as the largest U.S. Internet portal seeks to bring more users of its Web services to mobile devices.
Yahoo Mail for iPads and Yahoo Weather for iPhones will be available via Apple Inc.’s App Store starting today, the Sunnyvale, California-based company said in a blog post. A mail program for tablets running Google Inc.’s Android mobile- operating system is also available from today.
Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer is investing in mobile software as she attempts to restore growth to the struggling Internet pioneer. Already, improvements to its apps such as Flickr helped the company top 300 million monthly mobile users, up from just 200 million at the end of the last year, said Lee Parry, senior director for mobile and emerging products at Yahoo.

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