Jon Paris of Astrid announced that Yahoo has acquired the team task management company:

We are thrilled to announce that we have been acquired by Yahoo!. When we set out to build Astrid, we sought to help as many people as possible become happier, healthier and more productive. We’re really excited to join the mobile team and continue this work with Yahoo!’s goal of “making the world’s daily habits more inspiring and entertaining.”

Over the next 90 days, Astrid will continue to work as is, and we will no longer be accepting new premium subscriptions. To make future changes as easy as possible, we’ll be in touch with users shortly to share how to download data.

I reviewed Astrid in last fall’s Team Task Management report, but this sounds like a shut-down may be planned after the 90 day grace period.

This is just the most recent of Marissa Mayer’s acquisition spree, which along with Astrid includes Stamped, OnTheAir, Snip.it,  Alike, Summly, and Jybe. One rumor making the rounds is that Yahoo may be trying to counter the email-task integration model of Mailbox, now acquired by Dropbox (see Dropbox acquires Mailbox).

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