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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer makes comeback with new app to organise contacts

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer began her comeback to the tech scene on Wednesday (Nov 18) with the launch of a new mobile app aimed at helping people organise their contacts. The start-up created by Ms Mayer after her departure from Yahoo in 2017 unveiled its app called Sunshine Contacts, which "automatically creates a comprehensive set of your personal and professional contacts from disparate places like your phone, online address books, and email," according to the company. "The essential technologies that help us stay connected to those who matter most are antiquated," said Ms Mayer, co-founder and CEO of Sunshine, which was previously known as Lumi Labs. "At Sunshine, we believe there's an immense opportunity to make the mundane magical. It's been an extremely challenging and rewarding problem to tackle and we're just getting started." Sunshine, based in Silicon Valley, has raised US$20 million in capital and plans to launch a series of other applications. The Sunshine Contacts app, which is free and available for the Apple iOS operating system, aims to help users create more organisation of their personal and professional contacts. "If you are li...