Comments on: The Current State of Yahoo! And Where Yahoo!’s Acquisitions Since 1997 Are Now

By: Flickr Execs Working On New Start-Up

Flickr Execs Working On New Start-Up — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:28:35 +0000

[...] The new start-up is expected to revolve around social gaming according to Kara Swisher. Yahoo! purchased Flickr for $35 million in March 2005. Caterina Fake, wife of Butterfield and another co-founder in Flickr joined a [...]

By: Yahoo! Offers Two New E-mail Domains: Ymail.com & Rocketmail.com

Yahoo! Offers Two New E-mail Domains: Ymail.com & Rocketmail.com — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:23:30 +0000

[...] domains are ymail.comÂ and rocketmail.com.Â Yahoo! attained the rocketmail.com domain when they bought Four11 in 1997.Â Yahoo! is also planning on utilizing the technologies that they have acquired from Oddpost and [...]

By: » Yahoo! Acquiring BlueLithium For $300 Million... Cash || Pulse 2.0: Web 2.0 Reviews & Profiles || » Blog Archive

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:44:55 +0000

[...] major advertising-related acquisition that Yahoo! has made in the 2000s with the first two being Overture and Right Media.Â Â BlueLithium complements Yahoo!’s acquisition of Right Media since [...]

By: » Del.icio.us Rebuilding UI and Platform || Pulse 2.0: Web 2.0 Reviews & Profiles || » Blog Archive

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:53:30 +0000

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Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:20:36 +0000

[...] and was a Founding VP of Research and Development and a General Manager of Inktomi. Inktomi was bought by Yahoo! in March 2003. “Ludic Labs is creating a mass-scale, social-media service for internet and mobile [...]

By: Pulse 2.0: Web 2.0 Reviews & Profiles » Blog Archive » A Quick Look at Yahoo! India’s Our City Page

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:58:50 +0000

[...] and events pulled from Upcoming.org.Â It definetely appears that Yahoo! is gunning to integrate all of its company acquisitions in any new service it comes up [...]

By: PULSE 2.0 » Blog Archive » New Year Resolution for Yahoo!: Integrate Acquired Companies in 2007

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:30:49 +0000

[...] New Year Resolution for Yahoo!: Integrate Acquired Companies in 2007 Thursday, December 28th, 2006 Amit Chowdhry A month ago, I profiled 44 of the companies that Yahoo! had acquired in the past 10 years and where they are now. Since Google bought YouTube, Yahoo has been questioned about whether they are truly utilizing their newly acquired companies. Now people are even speculating that AOL and Yahoo! should merge. But according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Yahoo! is preparing to start integrating their newly acquired companies. [...]

By: Video Games Hideout » Blog Archive » The Current State of Yahoo! And Where Yahoo!â€™s Acquisitions Since …

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:29:22 +0000

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By: Brands Create Customers » Blog Archive » Yahoo’s “spread too thin” problem is really a brand vision problem

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:59:05 +0000

[...] This week Amit Chowdhry gives us a detailed rundown of the 44 acquisitions Yahoo has made since 1997. It’s an interesting list. Each acquisition was a logical move to gain a strategic property. What’s not clear (as evidenced by the peanut butter memo) is the over-arching brand vision that integrates them to carry Yahoo and its customers forward. [...]