WordPress might be the biggest winner in Yahoo’s $1.1 billion cash acquisition of Tumblr. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg announced on his blog Sunday night that more than 72,000 blog posts were imported to WordPress.com in a single hour. The massive spike in imports was reported immediately following Yahoo’s confirmation that it had acquired Tumblr. In…
Yahoo In Talks With Tumblr, Partnership Or Acquisition Possible
Yahoo is on an acquisition tear of late and now the software giant may be in talk to partner with or acquire popular blogging service Tumblr. While some reports point to a strategic alliance between the two companies, other reports believe Yahoo could pay upwards of $1 billion for the platform. Speaking to AllThingsD a source close…
Yahoo Gets Social With New Homepage
Yahoo! has been losing market share over the last few years but the company took a step forward today with its new redesign. The Yahoo! homepage is now more modern, more social, and more sleek, according to its CEO Marissa Mayer. Mayer writes: “Designed to be more intuitive and personal, the new Yahoo! experience is…
Yahoo Acquires Mobile Social Tool ‘Alike’
Yahoo, Inc. on Tuesday announced the acquisition of social mobile service Alike. Yahoo purchased Alike to acquire the teams talented staff of developers. Alike is a recommendation tool that suggests local businesses to users who have visited those locations in the past. The tool also recommends locations based on a users prior interactions with other types…
Yahoo Acquires Social News Network Snip.it
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is focused on acquiring streamlined startups with talented teams and well-design apps and she’s done it once again with the social network service Snip.it. Based in San Francisco the startup focused on a web application that clips news articles and arranges them in a format similar to Pinterest posts. The purchase…
Yahoo Acquires Live Video Chat Service OnTheAir
Yahoo has acquired OnTheAir, a video chat service that’s free to use and allows users to ask questions on video during live broadcasts. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Launched into private beta back in March 2012, the service is very reminiscent of Spreecast which has similar functionality. For now, the service…
Yahoo Ditching Public Chat Groups From Messenger App
Yahoo on Monday announced plans to shutter its public chat groups from Yahoo Messenger. The company announced the move along with plans to shut down other under-performing Yahoo programs found inside its Messenger and Yahoo Voice apps. The abandonment of Yahoo Messenger public chat groups will go into effect on December 14, 2012 and along…