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The new Flickr app of course puts photos front and center. She expects eventually that more than half of Yahoo's tech staff will work on mobile. Improving mobile access to Yahoo is a priority under new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, who yesterday announced new Yahoo Mail mobile apps herself. "It really brings Flickr into the palm of your hand." "Engagement to a high percentage is happening on mobile," said Markus Spiering, head of the Flickr product at Yahoo. Better smartphone support was critical, given how much activity has moved to mobile apps. The new app is designed to show off individual photos better, to ease sign-up for new users, to speed photo browsing, and to improve discovery. Flickr released an overhauled iPhone app today, capping a year of effort to reclaim its lost glory with software that it believes will become central rather than peripheral to using the photo-sharing site.
