Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Yahoo, Flickr, and Tumblr

Yahoo announced of a $1.1B acquisition of Tumblr to strengthen its position in mobile content creation world. Why Tumblr when Yahoo already have Flickr?  
Can't Yahoo add features to Flicker to redesign it to become a picture/video posting sites with a little bit of blogging on the sides? I believe they can - only the thing is they won't do it coz the CEO wants a paved way already to keep Yahoo shares up. 

I think the reason behind the acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo is to use its technology in blogging and incorporate it to Flickr. 

Let's see if these two will eventually the 'Facebook' of Yahoo!

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