Yahoo Messenger is an Android app developed by Yahoo (701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-0703, U.S.A).

Yahoo Messenger first became available on 16 Jan 2012. It is estimated that Yahoo Messenger has been downloaded between 50000000 and 100000000 times from the Play Store.

Yahoo Messenger 2.11.1 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows applications to read the sync stats.

Allows access to the vibrator.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.

Allows applications to write the sync settings.