Google Drive gets friendly with Yahoo Mail and WhatsApp, adds attachment support

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http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/K46UhSlMbhY_JFXwoDNVUg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PT EzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/digital_trends_973/341acf70cbc0d20c8e8bbc004488eeb3 (http://news.yahoo.com/google-drive-gets-friendly-yahoo-000127120.html)Google Drive, for the uninitiated, is a bit like a-digital filing cabinet. You can upload documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and photos directly from your phone, tablet, or computer to an account accessible from any device with an Internet connection. Drive already has integration with numerous -third-party apps, but starting today, it’s gaining two more: direct attachment-with Yahoo Mail and-WhatsApp. Yahoo Mail’-has-gained an interface that lets you search for the Drive-hosted file you want, and then grant editing/viewing privileges to the recipients-of your choice.-And a new button in WhatsApp’s conversation lets you attach Drive documents-to inline messages. Those-changes, small as they seem,-are pretty-monumental —-previously, transferring or linking to-a Drive file in Yahoo Mail and-WhatsApp required a fair amount-of-finagling. You’d have to paste a hyperlink to the doc in question, or, worse yet,-download the file and attach manually attach it to your message or e-mail. Now, the process is much easier. Related:- You can now back up all your WhatsApp messages onto Google Drive WhatsApp and Yahoo Mail on both iOS and Android will see-the integration “over the next week or so,” according to Google Drive engineer Mike Procopio. Drive may not make headlines that frequently these days, but that’s not for lack of trying. WhatsApp began offering users the option of backing up chat histories, voice messages, photos, and videos to Google Drive late last year. And in July 2015, Google released a plugin for Microsoft Office users that lets you open and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents directly from your Drive storage. WhatsApp and Yahoo Mail integration may not be quite as newsworthy, but they’re nonetheless much-appreciated notches in-Drive’s impressive-list of features, and will make Google’s cloud file service more useful to people who don’t exclusively use-Google’s ecosystem of services. Also watch: Google Calendar Will Help Schedule Time for Your Goals Please enable Javascript to watch this video



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