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The biggest problem was she bought too many new startups trying to gain the mobile market, specifically to make Yahoo a place for your daily digest and entertai
by yeukhon 10y ago
The biggest problem was she bought too many new startups trying to gain the mobile market, specifically to make Yahoo a place for your daily digest and entertainment. The Summly acquisition was a big noise, but I don't know what happened to Summly. Did it ever integrate into Yahoo? I know they did something to do. Think of it, Yahoo's new direction focusing on mobile was correct and was critical. Many of the Yahoo users go there for news and sport game like the Fantasy sports. Recently I have been taking FourSquare's data-selling focus very seriously. Perhaps Yahoo also could sell some of their data to developers and companies. As I mentioned on another post, Yahoo could build a end-to-end photography service business around Flickr, and even sell NLP and image recognition to various companies. They have Tumblr, they have photos, they could do something with that.
Tumblr acquisition was great theoretically, but the social interaction has changed to more rapid social platform like Instagram and Snapchat by the time the acquisition went through (I used to use Tumblr daily with my ex-girlfriend and it was our preferred social platform).
- nemothekid 10y ago>The Summly acquisition was a big noise, but I don't know what happened to Summly. Did it ever integrate into Yahoo? I know they did something to do. I believe those series of acquisitions were made just to bring on multiple mobile-experienced teams into Yahoo. The product didn't matter, but hiring teams of proven Mobile-UI/UX/Devs did.