Report: " Yahoo " is in talks to acquire a company to develop applications for the business sector

Conducts company " Yahoo " talks with " Tomvuleri " Tomfoolery, a company that specializes in developing applications for the business sector , with a view to acquisition , compared to 16 million dollars, according to the newspaper " Wall Street Journal " , citing sources familiar with the ongoing negotiations between the two companies .

According to the paper's sources , the talks reached between the " Yahoo " and " Tomvuleri " an advanced stage , but did not reach yet to resolve the deal , which is expected to be one of the sources to be announced this week .

And intends to " Yahoo " , after the acquisition of the development of business applications , which included her team , which is headed " Kakoul Srivastava ," the former employee with " Yahoo ," which contributed to the site management post pictures of the final , " Flickr " Flickr, in addition to " Sol Lipman ," the former employee with the company , " AOL " (AOL).

The Srivastava , Lipman who had founded the company " Tomvuleri " in 2012 has made ​​the objective to develop custom applications for work environments , and that may help employees to create a social life and cooperation between them in the same way that might provide them with social networking sites the other , such as " Facebook ."

The first application was launched by the company is the " Anchor " Anchor, which allows for the application of co-workers share files and discuss work projects using simple applications on both systems " IOS " and " Android" .

It should be noted that the company " Yahoo " Since assuming the " Marissa Mayer ," Executive Director of the Company in July 2012 , announced the acquisition of dozens of emerging companies , which are subject to the process of closing , and then the " Yahoo " the annexation of its engineers and designers need to develop services new for portable devices or enhance existing services with the company .