{"id":659438,"date":"2013-05-21T19:05:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T23:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=571969"},"modified":"2013-05-21T19:05:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T23:05:37","slug":"one-bad-sign-for-yahoos-tumblr-buy-its-history-of-1-billion-duds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659438","title":{"rendered":"One bad sign for Yahoo\u2019s Tumblr buy: Its history of $1 billion duds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/21\/yahoo-tumblr-merger-analysis\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/yahoo-sign-1-e1346157462986.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Yahoo Tumblr Merger Analysis\" title=\"Yahoo Tumblr Merger Analysis\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Yahoo turned some heads this week when it announced that it was <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/20\/wordpress-tumblr-imports-yahoo-acquisition\/\">paying $1.1 billion to buy blogging platform Tumblr<\/a>, but this isn&#8217;t the first time it has spent at least $1 billion to acquire another company. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2013\/05\/20\/185573937\/yahoos-other-billion-dollar-bets-where-are-they-now\"><em>NPR<\/em> points out<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/yahoo\">Yahoo<\/a>\u00a0has bought several companies over the past 15 years that it has valued at $1 billion or higher, including most famously its $3.7 billion acquisition of GeoCities in 1999. Other failed Yahoo acquisitions include the $5.7 billion it paid for multimedia website Broadcast.com and the $1.63 billion it paid for search advertising pioneer Overture. In fact, all of these acquisitions make the $30 million that Yahoo paid for Flickr back in 2005 seem like a relative success story, since <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/12\/new-flickr-iphone-app-16-filters\/\">Flickr is still an operational service that the company is still pouring resources into<\/a>. That said, when Flickr is seen as the best-case scenario for a Yahoo acquisition, it&#8217;s easy to see why <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/tumblr\">Tumblr<\/a> users are nervous.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/YIFszPNkEz4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo turned some heads this week when it announced that it was paying $1.1 billion to buy blogging platform Tumblr, but this isn&#8217;t the first time it has spent at least $1 billion to acquire another company. As NPR points out, Yahoo\u00a0has bought several companies over the past 15 years that it has valued at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}