By now you’ve more than heard about Yahoo’s massive $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr. The deal is done, another Internet entrepreneur and early employees become multimillionaires, Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo earns a new shot at digital relevance, and hundreds of millions of Tumblr users go about their Tumbling life as if it were just another day. There must be more to the story...and there is. The questions on the minds of financial and technology experts are: Why did Yahoo do this, how … [Read more...]
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Yahoo!’s Billion Dollar Tumblr Acquisition: Everything you need to know
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: acquisition, analysis, analyst, david karp, expert, marissa mayer, tumblr, yahoo
Jerry Yang’s departure signals a New Day for Yahoo!, the passing of an era for Tech
My first reaction to the news that Jerry Yang is leaving Yahoo! was that this was the passing of an era. I first met Jerry in 1994 when he was still a PhD student at Stanford, before he and David Filo left to run Yahoo! full time. Through bubbles and two economic downturns, Jerry has always been omnipresent in Silicon Valley. But all good things come to pass. With the arrival of Scott Thompson as the new CEO of Yahoo!, it makes sense that Scott be given a clean slate upon which to write … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Leadership, Portals, Social Tagged With: altimeter, charleneli, jerry yang, leadership, yahoo
