Unlike most of its recent purchases, Yahoo is keeping PlayerScale around. PlayerScale provided the infrastructure underpinning games in the social and mobile space.
Yahoo took pains to assure loyal users of the social blog site that the company "wouldn't screw it up" – and that Tumblr would remain independent. It's the only one whose cost Yahoo had to disclose, because of its high price tag: $1.1 billion in cash. Tumblr is by far Yahoo's biggest buy under Marissa Mayer. The game was shut down post-acquisition, along with the rest of the company, and most of the Loki Studios staffers took jobs at Yahoo. Loki's flagship product was Geomon, a game that incorporated a user's location information – including weather, time of day and season. The small MileWise team moved to Yahoo's New York City offices. The startup's small team joined Yahoo's mobile team at its Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters.įlight search app MileWise took into account users' racked-up airline miles, hotel loyalty points, and credit card rewards in its search results. GoPollGo's mobile app was aimed mainly at brands looking to get real-time feedback from fans. The company said it would stop accepting new subscriptions 90 days after Yahoo bought it. The London high school student created the news aggregation app when he was only 15 years old.Īstrid allowed people to create simple to-do lists on their phones or on the Web. Summly was by far Yahoo's buzziest acquisition to date, thanks to the startup's whiz-kid founder Nick D'Aloisio. Like most of Yahoo's acquisitions under Mayer, Jybe was shuttered. Yahoo got five of its former staffers back through the purchase of Jybe, a mobile app that offered personalized recommendations for everything from restaurants to books. Alike's staff subsequently moved over to Yahoo, which said it was "very impressed by the team and their approach to building personalized experiences." Founder Ramy Adeeb said the revolution in his native Egypt served as the inspiration for, which was shut down after the Yahoo buyout.Īlike's mobile app provided users with lists of nearby restaurants and other places tailored to their interests. was a Pinterest-like social platform for collecting and sharing articles from across the Web, with a particular focus on opinions. In a farewell blog post, the OnTheAir team wrote about the struggle to achieve "widespread daily use" of their chat-broadcasting app. The five staffers at video chat startup OnTheAir joined Yahoo's mobile team after the buyout. All nine Stamped employees joined Yahoo post-acquisition. Stamped had attracted investments from numerous celebrities, The New York Times and Google Ventures. The app let users share their favorite things, including movies, books, and restaurants. Mayer's first acquisition was Stamped, co-founded by Robby Stein, her former colleague when she was at Google. Mayer is focused on buying inexpensive, mobile-first startups, mainly to pull their engineering talent into Yahoo.
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