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May 9, 2012 · How one year of Marissa Mayer has changed Yahoo. Yahoo has bought an incredible 15 companies during Marissa Mayer's short tenure, and the roadmap reveals a lot about the company's...
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According to Yahoo, many of the 53 companies were talent and technology acquisitions, so it should come as no surprise that most promptly shut down post-acquisition. It’s difficult to estimate to what degree each company’s technology was incorporated into Yahoo or its products (if at all), but we’ve made note of it where we found evidence. As far a...
While most of the above companies or apps were single products, some of Mayer’s acquisitions were software makers or app makers, and had more than one product. The following products were shut down or discontinued as a result of the acquisitions. 34. May 2013: Loki Studios The mobile gaming studio’s primary app Geomon, which incorporated a player’s...
Not all of Yahoo’s acquisitions were simple talent or product grabs. Some of the companies that came aboard were allowed to continue to varying degrees, whether that meant rebranding under Yahoo’s name or continuing as subsidiaries. Some of them, like BrightRoll and Flurry, were what Yahoo terms strategic acquisitions—marquee buys that designed to ...
A couple of Mayer’s acquisitions, including Tumblr, her crown jewel, are still doing their own thing. 47. May 2013: Tumblr Even if you’re not intimately familiar with Yahoo’s purchases, you likely know that Tumblr was Yahoo’s prized acquisition. It spent just over a billion dollars on it less than a year after Mayer took over, and promised—in the v...
Some acquisitions don’t fit into the above categories: Some didn’t have products yet, while others’ assets were divvied up at a later date. In other cases, we weren’t able to explicitly confirm a shut down, but we’ll update if that changes. 49. May 2013: PlayerScale PlayerScale—a software developer for cross-platform gaming—promised users it would ...
How did Yahoo spend $2.3 billion on 53 companies under CEO Marissa Mayer? Most of them shut down, while some were integrated into Yahoo's products or services. See the list of deals and their fates.
Feb 2, 2014 · Learn how Yahoo has been on an M&A streak since 2012, acquiring mostly early-stage startups for mobile engineering talent. See the funding, stage, geography and VC data of Yahoo's 37 acquisitions and acqui-hires.
Jul 28, 2013 · Jul 28, 2013, 10:21 AM PDT. Marissa Mayer is on an insane acquisition spree as she tries to breathe life into Yahoo. Advertisement. In this month alone, she's hoovered up four companies....
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Feb 7, 2014 · Learn about the 37 acquisitions and acqui-hires that Yahoo has made since 2012, mainly in content, mobile, and search. Find out how Yahoo plans to monetize its biggest acquisition, Tumblr, and what challenges it faces.
Jul 16, 2013 · Since her arrival, Mayer has orchestrated 17 acquisitions, including a $1.1 billion purchase of Internet blogging service Tumblr, Yahoo's biggest in a decade. Yahoo's home page, email...
Jul 15, 2013 · All of Yahoo's acquisitions under Mayer have fallen into one of four buckets: core business (content, apps and search), social, gaming, and video (chat and conference calling). "If you...
