Tag: Acquisition

  • Yahoo! – The Upside

    A lot of ink has been spilt on the many mistakes made by Yahoo. How the company refused to buy Google or Facebook when the opportunity existed. Yahoo might in fact be a story of many missed opportunities. But those misses did not really define the failure. Yahoo failed because of a series of poor…

  • WhatsApp Is Worth It!

    Facebook spent a whopper to buy WhatsApp. Well whopper is an understatement. They spent $19 Billion, off which only $3 Billion is subject to shares vesting. So let us first put that number in perspective Facebook bought a small company with a team of 32 engineers for $19 Billion. Let us compare this with the…

  • Little Eye Labs – Facebook Acquisition

    Yesterday, a small company called Little Eye Labs, which helps optimise Android apps got acquired by Facebook. Normally, not a lot of press would be extended to such an acquisition, since the company being acquired is rather small; but the media in India exploded with this news. This acquisition is the quintessential, ‘One small step…