Eight smart Yahoo Web 2.0 acquisitions – update
2007 January 16
Emre Sokullu at Read/WriteWeb comments on a Yahoo’s recent acquisitions - and in hindsight it looks like they picked up some real bargains (although most of the prices aren’t public). What’s surprising is that 2006 saw just three purchases – they were ahead of the curve and the spree was really in 2005.
Their two point oh round-up looks like this:
- Blo.gs - blog pinging service
- Flickr - photo sharing
- Upcoming - price unknown
- del.icio.us – social bookmarking
- Konfabulator – desktop search
- Jumpcut – online video
- Bix – online karaoke
- MyBlogLog – social networking
Yahoo certainly paid less for the whole basket of web 2.0 apps than Google paid for YouTube… perhaps they learnt from the experience of spendingUS$3.6bn on GeoCities in 1999.
Wikipedia has a complete list of Yahoo acquisitions dating back to the (first) dotcom boom.
Update: Pete Abilla has put together a neat timeline of acquisitions by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft using Ajax.
