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Yahoo tried that business model and it didn’t go too well for them. Maybe we’ll see Bending Spoons but Tumblr and Flickr next.
by al_borland 1y ago
Yahoo tried that business model and it didn’t go too well for them. Maybe we’ll see Bending Spoons but Tumblr and Flickr next.
- lanthade 1y agoSmugmug already bought Flickr a few years ago and that seems to be going well.
- no_wizard 1y agoTumblr was bought by Yahoo then sold for comparative peanuts to Automattic, of Wordpress fame
- riffraff 1y agoI may recall wrongly, but IMO Yahoo used to buy hyped companies for a ton of money and let them die, it was the opposite strategy.