Yahoo were perfectly capable of neglecting Tumblr or spending more time asking "What can Tumblr do for Yahoo?" prior to Verizon's oversight also. You can see ac

Yahoo were perfectly capable of neglecting Tumblr or spending more time asking "What can Tumblr do for Yahoo?" prior to Verizon's oversight also. You can see acquisitions like Flickr or del.icio.us which shared Tumblr's fate, just earlier.