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Talk about great investment opportunity, drop me a note when you need some seed money for the third go around. Flickr is the only Yahoo acquisition that comes
by influx 17y ago
Talk about great investment opportunity, drop me a note when you need some seed money for the third go around. Flickr is the only Yahoo acquisition that comes to mind that they haven't run into the ground and then abandoned.
- jmatt 17y agoY! seemed to make some good buys a looong time ago in the mid 90s. Then they bought broadcast.com and geocities. Those are a few log10 larger purchases and were total failures. So even if there were successful small acquisitions they are hidden by the scale of their bad M&A decisions. M&A is probably still trying to make up for the losses they incurred in 1999. More recently they bought delicious which I love and continued to use without even noticing that they were acquired. After that the next "success" I can think of is rivals.com which seems like a good buy and good match. Yahoo still has some great niche (maybe that's a misnomer) markets like fantasy sports and investing. So when they strengthen an existing strong property it seems to work better than bringing in something new. See: http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoos-sorry-acquisition-history-2009-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoos-sorry-acquisition-hist...