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Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”

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Re: Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”

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Post by lancewiggs »

pg wrote: post #2

Surely twould be more efficient just to tell Yahoo rather than trying to bounce the message off us.

This may be the only legal way of teasing out a response from the other potential bidders without breaking the exclusive negotiation arrangement with Yahoo!.

If the other potential buyers indicate somehow that they would pay more, then the Tumblr board may perceive that the right thing to do is to be unreasonable on price so that Yahoo! walk away. Tumblr may not approach the others directly, but of course can read any correspondence that arrives.

It's a a dangerous course, as if there is only one other buyer then they may counter with a lower offer, and even if there is a genuine auction then there is the risk that market conditions could change.

And of course all this is also a tactic to nudge the Yahoo! board into making the 'right' decision.

Re: Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”

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Post by dualogy »

neya wrote: post #5

Here's my perspective as a hardcore tumblr user - Tumblr is a good example of an 'uncontrolled platform'. What started as a beautiful blogging platform, has now turned into a junkyard of cat memes, 'blurr-photo-in-the-background' quotes and animated GIF thumbnails of movie snapshots and softcore pornography. Of course your feed depends on what/who you subscribe to..but due to the nature of Tumblr's platform, even the…

Hey, it's for the millions (I presume) of "Yahoo!News" readers out there, so I'd say "product-market fit": achievement-unlocked.

Re: Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”

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Post by feronull »

neya wrote: post #5

Here's my perspective as a hardcore tumblr user - Tumblr is a good example of an 'uncontrolled platform'. What started as a beautiful blogging platform, has now turned into a junkyard of cat memes, 'blurr-photo-in-the-background' quotes and animated GIF thumbnails of movie snapshots and softcore pornography. Of course your feed depends on what/who you subscribe to..but due to the nature of Tumblr's platform, even the…

Instagram had 500m in cash and Tumblr is running out of the money. So this is the good exit for Tumblr

Re: Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”

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Post by thoughtcriminal »

neya wrote: post #5

Here's my perspective as a hardcore tumblr user - Tumblr is a good example of an 'uncontrolled platform'. What started as a beautiful blogging platform, has now turned into a junkyard of cat memes, 'blurr-photo-in-the-background' quotes and animated GIF thumbnails of movie snapshots and softcore pornography. Of course your feed depends on what/who you subscribe to..but due to the nature of Tumblr's platform, even the…

$1.1 Billion is a really good deal for a trashcan full of 99% animated cat GIFs and 1% decent content.

Have you read Yahoo news lately? It's dumbed-down sensationalistic garbage that makes Tumblr look absolutely brilliant in comparison.

Re: Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”

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Post by rukshn »

I've been using tumblr as my blog platform for nearly 4 years because it allows easy mobile posting and via emails which makes my posting easy. Yahoo buying tumblr will ruin tumblr for sure like yahoo has done go the past with Flickr and Delicious. Yahoo need to innovate and make things happen rather than buying everything just because they have money. Just imagine what would have happened to Facebook if Yahoo bought it back then. Yahoo is like the uncool kid who used to buy the lunch of cool kids so he can sit with them

Re: Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”

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Post by rsankar »

jval wrote: post #20

In response to some of the critics: For a good user-generated content comparable, YouTube wasn't profitable until around 2010-2011[1], 7 years after its founding. It is, of course, very profitable now and looks like one of the best acquisitions ever made in the internet space. Google only had to fork out $1.65Bn in an all-stock transaction for a company which would now be worth many, many times that (some numbers wou…

How much money does YouTube make? After paying content providers and bandwidth what is the profit margin?
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