Acquisitions and strategy
Web acquisitions are not strategy. Acquisitions are usually financial gymnastics showing value. Personally, I think when a big company buys a smaller innovative company there’s a good chance that innovation in the acquired company dies. Google was guilty of this with its acquisitions of Blogger (nothing new there, Wordpress, six [...]
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Acquisitions and strategy
Impeccable timing
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No excuse for lack of passion
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Last week I was listening to [...]
Using delicious better
Delicious has infiltrated my consciousness. Over the past 24 hours I’ve had about 18 conversations about using delicious. And this morning I discovered I can use delicious better too!
Yesterday Cathy and I had a conversation with the boss man about delicious actually being people powered search in addition to being a good repository [...]
Getting used to a big company
One of the interesting things about working for a large multinational organization is that everyone has an opinion about the company. This definitely takes some getting used to.
I knew it was going to be interesting the day after I let people know I was joining Yahoo, this happened to be the same day the MSFT [...]
Allow me to reintroduce myself
My name is Farhan. I hit 30 last year, finished my MBA last month and joined Yahoo last week – okay it was 5 weeks ago, what can I say I’m a sucker for patterns.
I used to blog at vox, and while it was a useful blogging tool for someone who was working full time [...]