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Yahoo Inc announced on Monday it would shell out $1.1 billion to buy blogging service Tumblr, in a bid to revitalize its brand and attract a younger generation of users.Yahoo has been criticized for making big acquisitions that have not always reaped lasting returns.Under CEO Marissa Mayer, the Internet search company has snapped up numerous small startups in recent months, hoping to gain an edge in mobile, bring new talent on board and improve existing services.Here are notable acquisitions since the heyday of the first dotcom boom:Geocities:In 1999, Yahoo bought Geocities - a free service that hosted personal home pages for consumers and once ranked among the most-trafficked websites - for $4 billion-plus. Yahoo pulled the plug on the site in 2009, making the purchase one of the company's most glaring acquisition failures.Broadcast.com:Shortly before the dotcom bubble burst, Yahoo picked up the Internet radio company for more than $5 billion in 1999. While a win for tech entrepreneur...
Yahoo Inc. said on Monday it will acquire Tumblr for around $1.1 billion. "Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operate...
Yahoo Inc's board has approved a deal to buy blogging and social networking site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, the Wall Street Journal cited people familiar with ...
Yahoo Inc's board will meet on Sunday to vote on whether to offer $1.1 billion in cash for New York-based blogging service Tumblr, tech blog AllThingsD cited sources...
DirecTV (NASDAQ:DTV) is eyeing a possible bid to acquire online video site Hulu, according to a Wall Street Journal report.The No. 2 U.S. pay-TV operator was among t...
Marissa Mayer is burning up the phone lines.After striking out on a $225 million deal to take control of Dailymotion last month and holding preliminary talks about a...
It must be seven or eight years since I wrote "My Last Sony," predicting the tech giant's downfall at the hands of overzealous chief executive Nobuyuki Idei and his ...
For years Sony Corp. (SNE) steadfastly defended the synergies of owning both an entertainment and an electronics operation. But the conglomerate's vision is being ch...
After years of steadfastly defending the synergies of owning both an entertainment and an electronics operation, Sony Corp's (6758.TO) vision of a content and hardwa...
Find out what trait Marissa Mayer is looking for when it comes to hiring at Yahoo – and how she views her track record so far.
Yahoo Inc. may be getting closer to making an offer for Hulu, the video premium service, according to a report in All Things D on Wednesday. The article cited numero...
Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) has been quietly trying to find a way out of its struggling Web-search partnership with Microsoft Corp.(MSFT), a person familiar the matter said, b...
Yahoo Inc.'s Chief Executive Marissa Mayer has been unsuccessfully trying to exit its Internet-search partnership with Microsoft Corp. , The Wall Street Journal repo...
Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging service Tumblr will be a test of her ability to revive the aging Web portal. Luckily f...
Yahoo Inc. took the tech-sector spotlight Monday, with its $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging-service operator Tumblr seen as a potential gamble by Chief Executive...
Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) inked a deal to buy social blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion on Monday in what marks one of the largest social media deals in history, even s...
Yahoo Inc.'s $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging-service operator Tumblr claimed the tech sector's spotlight on Monday, with the deal seen as a potential gamble by ...
The company began placing ads on its service last year. In recent media reports, Mr. Karp, who once told the Los Angeles Times that he was "pretty opposed to adverti...
Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) agreed to acquire blogging startup Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash, a deal that will see Tumblr continue to operate as an independent busines...
Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) agreed to acquire blogging startup Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash, a deal that will see Tumblr continue to operate as an independent busines...
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