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There’s been a lot of negative stuff in the press so far about how Yahoo is making a big blunder with its recent acquisition of Tumblr.In this article, I’ll explain why I think they’re all wrong.But first, let’s address the critics, who in general, seem to be focused on two main points:1. Yahoo sucks at integrating companies (See Flickr)In 2005, photo-sharing site Flickr was at the forefront of the social media revolution. But, as some critics have pointed out, Yahoo’s ...
Photographer looking for a place to store and display hundreds of high res images, which you can upload on the go? Flickr just became a serious contender. Yahoo! has given the photo sharing site a massive makeover, culling white space and all that boring text to make it all about the images. Oh, and it's offering every user a terabyte of free storage for their images.The redesign was announced at an event in New York and via a blog ...
Yahoo has apparently approved a US$1.1-billion cash deal to buy out blogging platform Tumblr.The Wall Street Journal broke the news via Twitter, seemingly confirming rumours of the buyout, which have been floating around for a few days now.Breaking: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the blogging site Tumblr. wsj.com— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 19, 2013Tech pundits had expected Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer to announce the acquisition at a scheduled ...
Things are stirring in the house of Yahoo! According to multiple sources, the Silicon Valley veteran is in talks to buy popular social blogging platform Tumblr for a staggering US$1-billion.Yahoo! CFO Ken Goldman, is cited in AllthingsD as expressing the need for the company to be "cool again". Goldman was speaking at JP Morgan’s Global Technology conference earlier this week. The CFO was very explicit about the company's shortcomings and how to fix it, reports AllthingsD."One of our ...
Colleen Taylor at TechCrunch, reports that Yahoo! has changed the way it describes itself in its latest 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.She writes that it's a small change but symbolic.A far better description of Yahoo! would be a "technology media company." It uses media technologies to publish digital content and advertising. What's not "media company" about that?Technology companies develop and sell technologies, such as databases (Oracle), microprocessors (Intel), software as a service (Salesforce.com). What technology can you ...
There's been much written lately about Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer pulling back workers from their home offices as if it's an attack on telecommuting and the productivity of home-based workers.It's neither, it's Yahoo! trying to reboot its company culture, which has been kindly described by one observer as, "notoriously dysfunctional and disorganized." It's been going on for years and it's time to press the reboot button.But company culture can't be remade through telecommuting, it has to be done physically and ...
We've been waiting for Marissa Mayer to really make her impact felt at Yahoo! since taking over CEO. The new homepage does that and more.According to Mayer, the page is now "more intuitive and personal" and with Yahoo! tailoring what you see on it to your interests and preferences.The central feature in this regard is infinite scroll on your newsfeed, which you can customise by logging with your Facebook or Yahoo! ID. Doing so means that you'll be ...Ever since ex-Googler Marissa Mayer took over at Yahoo!, the CEO has been vocal about her vision for the ailing internet company, explaining how the future would be all about mobile, personalised content, mobile, strategic partnerships and, well, mobile. In the past few months, she oversaw the launch of redesigned Mail and Flickr apps, revealed that the company would be cutting down on its large app suite to focus on just a dozen key ones and announced plans to give ...
It seems Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer is getting down to business with some serious decisions. Mayer announced in an investor conference hosted by the Goldman Sachs Group that the company needs to streamline its mobile offering by cutting its apps from about 60 to 12, reports AllThingsD."Ultimately, you don’t want to trouble users by making them download too many apps, but many apps are single-use," said Mayer.The CEO is searching for ways to innovate at the company and has ...
It seems Marissa Mayer just can't leave her Googler days behind her. The company announced this week that it is teaming up with Google to bring contextual advertising to its millions of users. According to the blog post by Yahoo! the agreement isn't exclusive and allows the company to partner with other ad networks."We’re excited to announce that we recently signed a global, non-exclusive agreement with Google to display ads on various Yahoo! properties and certain co-branded sites using Google’s ...
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