Yahoo returns acquired startup to founders

Re:Yahoo returns acquired startup to founders by antr on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @06:16AM (#4285056)

I just hope that MM values inside talent and does not go on a startup shopping spree. Yahoo has great undervalued, underutilized assets, and with Yahoo's distribution and reach it can do great things without overpaying for "frothy" startups with dubious value/products.

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Re:Yahoo returns acquired startup to founders by itmag on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @06:36AM (#4285090)

"Yahoo has great undervalued, underutilized assets"

Such as? I'm not doubting you, I'm just curious to know.

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Re:Yahoo returns acquired startup to founders by michaelbuckbee on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @06:48AM (#4285115)

I always thought Yahoo Pipes[1] was an amazing product - especially for when it was first released.

If Amazon had developed it they'd have called it 'Data Processing Services' and charged for how many cycles it took up.

1 - http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

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Re:Yahoo returns acquired startup to founders by antr on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @07:34AM (#4285215)

Flickr, Yahoo as a portal (5th most visited site in the U.S.), International presence and distribution, Yahoo Finance, Games and Mail.

On top of that, Yahoo ain't financially dead a la Nokia and RIM. Yahoo is very profitable, with billions of revenues and net income. I wouldn't write off Yahoo just yet.

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Re:Yahoo returns acquired startup to founders by debacle on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @08:04AM (#4285297)

Their dev tools are awesome, their APIs are very easy to work with, and their ToS are incredibly permissive.

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