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How is this becoming public information so quickly? Is this being leaked? It seems like it's not beneficial for this to become public knowledge for anyone excep
by sudonim 13y ago
How is this becoming public information so quickly? Is this being leaked? It seems like it's not beneficial for this to become public knowledge for anyone except Tumblr if they are trying to start a bidding war.
- fatjokes 13y agoI suspect a big part of the reason that Yahoo! makes these acquisitions if for PR, i.e., "look! we're a dynamic company making huge moves!" Look at Summly---how much value did they reap simply from the media coverage? They killed the software immediately, and I'm sure Yahoo! Research could've whipped up a pretty decent summarization engine at no extra cost.
- dsaint 13y agoThey integrated Summly into their Yahoo iOS app within 30 days of acquisition. They're using it to provide summaries of news articles in the app.
- fatjokes 13y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but didn't they integrate "Summly's summarization technology" into their app, which was licensed from SRI?
- itsprofitbaron 13y agoYahoo employees can't keep secrets and are always leaking things to AllThingsD (a sister company to WSJ).
- jcdavis 13y agoYahoo is leakier than most - Kara Fisher seems to know anything that happens there
- brown9-2 13y agoThis isn't an unsolicited deal, the CEO brought it to the board for approval after completing negotiations. This is a done deal now, it's not the start of Tumblr's bidding process.