
<p>LookFlow, a startup that describes itself as "an entirely new way to explore images you love," just announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo and will be joining the Flickr team.</p><p>The company writes on its homepage, "Fret not, LookFlow fans. Keep an eye out for our product in future versions of Flickr with many more wonderful photos and all that Flickr awesomeness!" It also says it will be helping Yahoo to form a new "deep learning group."</p><p>When I emailed Yahoo for confirmation, a company spokesperson told me, "We have acquired LookFlow, an enhanced image recognition company," and they pointed me to the aforementioned LookFlow homepage.</p><p>I wasn't able to find much information about LookFlow online, but according to the LinkedIn profiles of its co-founders Bobby Jaros and Simon Osindero, the company was founded back in 2009. Osindero wrote, "Our approach integrates recent developments from artificial intelligence, information visualization, and interface design."</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/23/yahoo-acquires-startup-lookflow-to-work-on-flickr-and-deep-learning/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://mashable.com/2013/10/23/yahoo-acquires-lookflow-flickr/">Yahoo Acquires LookFlow to Improve Flickr Discovery</a> (Mashable)</p><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/23/yahoo-acquires-ai-startup-lookflow-improve-discovery-flickr-build-deep-learning-group/">Yahoo Acquires AI Startup Lookflow to Improve Discovery in Flickr</a> (The Next Web)</p><p><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/10/23/yahoo-buys-lookflow-team-to-work-on.html">Yahoo buys LookFlow team to work on Flickr</a> (Silicon Valley Business Journal)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dv2rOXm1cfjZi3MrsQmhMU5QUcMvM&ned=us">9 additional articles.</a></p>