Yahoo has acquired a location-based recommendation app called Zofari

Another acquisition for Yahoo, this one focused on improving the company’s local search capabilities: it has bought Zofari, a local recommendation app that uses machine learning, natural language processing and third-party data from sources like Foursquare to extract information that matches you the user up with places you might enjoy visiting. Or, as we described them last year, a “Pandora for places.” Yet, while Zofari may be all about discovery, this acquisition has completely flown under the radar: the deal was actually announced last week but it seems like no one really noticed. (A sign, perhaps, of how commonplace Yahoo tuck-in acquisitions have become.) Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed but in a blog post on Zofari’s site, the company’s four employees — Nate Weinstein, Jason Kobilka, Shahzad Aziz and Oliver Su — say they will be joining Yahoo.