| Sunnyvale-based Yahoo was founded by hungry entrepreneurs, Jerry Yang and David Filo. Post dot-com-boom, Yahoo had acquired, sold and shuttered many high-profile acquisitions such as Geocities, Overture Services, Hotjobs.com, Right Media and Broadcast.com (which made Mark Cuban very rich.)
In 2013, Yahoo paid US$ 1.1 billion for a blog service called Tumblr, founded by young entrepreneur David Karp. Yahoo had purchased the trendy startup aspiring to challenge Facebook and Twitter. When Yahoo booked goodwill worth US$ 750.9 million from the deal, the company rebutted,"The acquisition of Tumblr is expected to bring a significant community of users to the Yahoo! network." In comparison, back in 2013, Yahoo had only US$ 74 million in tangible assets...............................................Full Article: Source |