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Re: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

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Post by virtuz »

droithomme wrote: post #143
davidw wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This thread sounds like "he said, she said". Anyone got a nice spreadsheet of who has acquired what, with the fate of the acquired unit and people? How long did they stick around? That seems like the minimum - maybe there are clever ways to add information to it.

Here you go, per your request, all 76 of them, but not including this latest one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... !

They bought GeoCities in 1999. I can't help but think history is repeating itself.

Re: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

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Post by loceng »

seiji wrote: post #132
icebraining wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Frankly, I don't get your position. If you believe that price should be determined by supply and demand based on perceived value, like it mostly is in these cases, then there's no exploitation. If you believe that price should be attributed based on Labor expended, then the Yahoo! workers are already extremely disproportionately paid relative to the average worker, so it makes no sense for them to feel exploited. How…

How exactly are the Yahoo! workers exploited? I think that's between the employee and their own view of the world. If you worked at Yahoo for six years doing something, anything, and then Yahoo buys a six year old company run by a 26 year old for a billion dollars — what were you doing the past six years? Couldn't it have been you? Why not? Every computer person employed by a company isn't generating a million dollar…

Because you were working at a company, and not taking the risk building your own.

Re: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

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Post by loceng »

inmygarage wrote: post #10

Thoughts on why this was an all-cash deal as opposed to similar comps (Instagram, YouTube) which were cash/stock mix?

Tumblr might not have valued Yahoo! stock; They would lose control and possibility of fucking everything up is possibly high.

Re: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

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Post by ebf »

blankenship wrote: post #146
camus wrote: post #134

I dont understand why Yahoo would need Tumblr , nor i got why they bought Summly the price they paid. Is it to look relevant ? Yahoo has a ton of services, a ton of engineers and apps that could do better if they were made better. Yahoo still feels like it is 1999. Why not work on yahoo mail and make it relevant ? groups and make it relevant ? what about their ugly homepage ? I mean there is a ton of things to do, in…

What does cute factor have to do with anything in this thread? “Ballmer is rotund and intelligent, but what’s his strategy for Microsoft?” sounds just as silly.

Seems like the OP's sentence has a sexist undertone to it.

Re: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

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Post by tnuc »

orangethirty wrote: post #115

A business without a proper model, lack of revenue, losing money, fighting off pornography and spammers is worth 1.1 billion in cash to Yahoo. The users will flee, they always do. The engineering dept. will be hired out, it always is. All that Yahoo will have is a domain, a database filled with cats and naked people, and a real problem on its hands. Bad move, Yahoo. The way to re-build Yahoo is not to buy zombie busi…

What you are describing sounds like what happened to GeoCities.

Re: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

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Post by ebf »

camus wrote: post #134

I dont understand why Yahoo would need Tumblr , nor i got why they bought Summly the price they paid. Is it to look relevant ? Yahoo has a ton of services, a ton of engineers and apps that could do better if they were made better. Yahoo still feels like it is 1999. Why not work on yahoo mail and make it relevant ? groups and make it relevant ? what about their ugly homepage ? I mean there is a ton of things to do, in…

> Yahoo has a ton of services, a ton of engineers and apps that could do better if they were made better.

Does buying Tumblr take away focus from their other services? I don't think Yahoo engineers working on those projects will be transfered to Tumblr.

> Yahoo still feels like it is 1999. Why not work on yahoo mail and make it relevant ?

Yahoo mail is plenty relevant. It's the 3rd largest email provider with 281 million users. And they updated it last December.

> what about their ugly homepage ?

They updated it. Also ugly != functional.

> I mean there is a ton of things to do, instead of buying things like Tumblr.

Once again, you are assuming the two are exclusive.

> Marissa is cute and intelligent , but what's her strategy for Yahoo?

What does her attractiveness have to do with anything?

Re: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

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Post by robotmay »

icebraining wrote: post #123
alan_cx wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, if you are British, you'd want to check that burger doesn't contain horse meat. And as amusing as that might or might not be, there is also a point there.

There's nothing wrong with horse meat.

There are far fewer controls and standards for horse meat in much of the EU, meaning a lot of the meat which was being passed off as beef could potentially contain dangerous drugs not fit for human consumption.

If it's properly regulated though, you're right that there's no problem with it.

Re: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

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Post by camus »

ebf wrote: post #156
camus wrote: post #134

I dont understand why Yahoo would need Tumblr , nor i got why they bought Summly the price they paid. Is it to look relevant ? Yahoo has a ton of services, a ton of engineers and apps that could do better if they were made better. Yahoo still feels like it is 1999. Why not work on yahoo mail and make it relevant ? groups and make it relevant ? what about their ugly homepage ? I mean there is a ton of things to do, in…

> Yahoo has a ton of services, a ton of engineers and apps that could do better if they were made better. Does buying Tumblr take away focus from their other services? I don't think Yahoo engineers working on those projects will be transfered to Tumblr. > Yahoo still feels like it is 1999. Why not work on yahoo mail and make it relevant ? Yahoo mail is plenty relevant. It's the 3rd largest email provider with 281 mil…

good ,so what product makes Yahoo relevant in 2013, Yahoo mail ? Sorry but the Tumblr deals only feels like a stunt to me.

Re: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

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Post by jiggy2011 »

seiji wrote: post #132
icebraining wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Frankly, I don't get your position. If you believe that price should be determined by supply and demand based on perceived value, like it mostly is in these cases, then there's no exploitation. If you believe that price should be attributed based on Labor expended, then the Yahoo! workers are already extremely disproportionately paid relative to the average worker, so it makes no sense for them to feel exploited. How…

How exactly are the Yahoo! workers exploited? I think that's between the employee and their own view of the world. If you worked at Yahoo for six years doing something, anything, and then Yahoo buys a six year old company run by a 26 year old for a billion dollars — what were you doing the past six years? Couldn't it have been you? Why not? Every computer person employed by a company isn't generating a million dollar…

There's no foolproof way to know what will generate value ahead of time. Sometimes in order to use their skills to generate value a developer requires resources ahead of time that only a large company can provide.

If you work on a failed project as an employee, then at least you got paid a salary during that time. As a startup founder you walk away with nothing.

Re: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

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Post by adventured »

This is the time to start the next Tumblr, as the last Tumblr is now dead.

For the same reason that Flickr was replaced by Instagram (and missed the entire mobile wave), Tumblr will lose traction over the next couple of years and be replaced. They'll stick around, but their traffic will fall by half in 24 to 36 months. Flickr for example has been losing traffic for two straight years.

Nothing less cool than using a Yahoo blogging site if you're a teenager. That isn't going to change soon.

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