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Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1 Billion Deal as Expected -
The Yahoo board has approved a massive $1.1 billion all-cash deal to buy Tumblr.
It’s not clear when the official vote was taken, but sources close to the board said the acquisition was a foregone conclusion and was unanimously approved by the directors of Silicon Valley Internet giant.
I don’t know what to say. For sure, no drastic moves until we see the changes around here on Tumblr.
Namit batchoy! (at Ted’s Old Timer Lapaz Batchoy)
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The Day Zuckerberg Turned Down Yahoo's $1 Billion -
Allison Fass reporting on Peter Thiel’s talk at SXSW this year where he recounted the time in 2006 that Mark Zuckerberg turned down Yahoo’s $1 billion offer to buy Facebook:
His only partial rationalization at the time was that in the history of Yahoo, it had made two $1 billion offers that were also turned down. And those were to eBay and Google. “At least I could actually make a pseudo-scientific argument that in every case Yahoo offered $1 billion and it was rejected, it was the correct thing to do,” said Thiel.
I should say that I know absolutely nothing about any sort of talks/deals between Tumblr and Yahoo. And I’m not sharing this to suggest that Tumblr should turn down such a supposed offer (my initial gut feeling is actually that such a partnership would make a lot of sense). I just found it fascinating given how closely the reported number is to the key number repeated in Thiel’s story.
Again, no to Yahoo! acquiring Tumblr!
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AllThingsD reports: Yahoo! Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire…
No! Don’t!
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