Posted by Paul in Web 2.0, business, social media on May 26, 2010
Zynga is looking to expand beyond Facebook, and for good reasons: the two haven’t a great relationship lately. Zynga has announced that they’ve struck a deal with Yahoo which will allow Zynga to offer its games — like Mafia Wars and FarmVille — to millions of Yahoo users. Details of the deal are yet to be announced.
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Posted by Paul in Internet Marketing, business on May 19, 2010
Yahoo has acquired concept producer Associated Content for $100 million. According to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, the company acquired Associated Content to add to its content features, and considering that Associated Content writers add some 50,000 pieces of unique content per month, it might be just what Yahoo needs.
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Posted by Paul in Tools, business, social media on April 19, 2010
According to recent rumors, Yahoo is looking to acquire Foursquare, the location-based social network which has exploded in use and popularity over the past few months. The price is rumored north of $80 million, according to inside sources, while industry pundits ponder whether Foursquare should sell at all, especially considering how startups are doing after Yahoo acquires them (e.g. like Flickr and Delicious).
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Yahoo has announced that the company has acquired Citizen Sports, which mostly deals with fantasy games and offers a variety of sports products as well, including apps for the iPhone and Google Android as well.
Citizen Sports has raised $10 million so far, and the acquisition price is rumored to be in the $30 million range. Yahoo will add it to its Yahoo Sports division.
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Posted by Paul in Venture capital, business, social media on March 17, 2010
New social gaming startup MetroGames has announced that they’ve raised $5 million in Series A funding from Playdom, one of the larger social game developers.
While it’s a new startup, MetroGames doesn’t seem new to the social gaming landscape: the company has over 30 games available on Facebook and
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Tracking and estimating corrects web statistics isn’t particularly easy, there are plenty of trackers — Compete, Alexa, Hitwise — each with their own systems and their own rankings. Google.com has long been known as the most visited site in the US, but now, according to Hitwise, it’s been pushed to second place, with Facebook now at the top spot. Yahoo Mail is third and Yahoo is fourth.
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Posted by Paul in Tech, Tools, business, social media on March 4, 2010
Yahoo’s popular Contacts service has added Facebook connect as a standard feature now, and Facebook connect will almost take over the whole process now, with easy import of friends and their details from Facebook.
Last month, Yahoo added Twitter support as well, and we’ll see how much else they’re going to integrate in their systems.
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Posted by Paul in Uncategorized on February 18, 2010
The European Commission and the Department of Justice have finally cleared the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, where they stuck a search deal last year, which would bring Microsoft search to Yahoo pages.
Two years ago, Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo for $45 billion, but the deal never went through, and subsequent negotiations fell through as well.
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