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One of these days, I'm going to come across a blog post about an acquisition that doesn't begin with "We’re excited to tell you..." and ends in a disaster for t
by eksith 13y ago
One of these days, I'm going to come across a blog post about an acquisition that doesn't begin with "We’re excited to tell you..." and ends in a disaster for the majority of employees.
One of these days...
That said, recycling old Yahoo addresses, buying Tumblr, Snip.it, Summly... anyone see a pattern?
I can see Yahoo is trying to muscle in on Pintrest's turf with this and maybe even venture into Google Plus land : "Discover & share with Facebook, Twitter, and beyond."
The "beyond" is where Yahoo can provide infrastructure to build/extend their own social network.
- 6502hero 13y agoIt probably looks wonderfully strategic from a 10,000 foot view. Now imagine the task of actually gluing these acquisitions together for the actual engineers, not to mention the culture clashes that inevitably occur with acquisitions. I'm having a panic attack just thinking about it.
- colmvp 13y ago"Now imagine the task of actually gluing these acquisitions together for the actual engineers..." No thanks. I just ate.
- EarthLaunch 13y agoThey're several years late on that strategy, though. Not a deal breaker, but they've seen how hard it is for Google Plus to get people on a social network. That's with Google even sacrificing their other products to shove it down everyone's throat. Yahoo will need some finesse and real in-house innovation if they're going to compete in that area.
- cliveowen 13y agoI don't see a pattern, I see a struggling company trying to remain competitive buying all it can get away with and seeing what sticks. Hope it works out well for them. If anything, these small companies can bring a new air to an old behemoth.
- eksith 13y agoMaybe that's the strategy as well, but I can see the new technology making its way to Yahoo's current strategy. But what struck me was that they bought Tumblr, Jybe, Snip.it, Alike and Summly this year alone and they're all "social" as well as Ztelic, which is "social analytics" (whatever that means) from China. They also bought GhostBird for mobile photography. In one year, they made acquisitions that were very mobile, social and analytics heavy so "social" is very much in their future path somehow.
- yuhong 13y agoI think Yahoo has much improved after Marissa became CEO.
- eshvk 13y agoIs that all you have to say? You have made the same damn comment in three different locations on this thread!
- smacktoward 13y ago"Better than Yahoo used to be" is not exactly a high bar to clear, though.
- pearjuice 13y ago@eshvk Viral marketing. ;-)