‘Yahoo Has Now Acquired 10 Startups Since Marissa Mayer Became CEO’ – ‘Mashable’

Seth Fiegerman says, “During her first earnings call after taking over as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer laid out her plan to start acquiring smaller companies that “align well overall with our businesses,” noting that she had done about 20 such acquisitions in her long tenure at Google. That was just more than six months ago, but Mayer has already completed half as many acquisitions in her time at Yahoo.

Yahoo announced late Friday that it had acquired Loki Studios, a mobile gaming company, for its experience with “community and location-based mobile services.” This marked Yahoo’s fourth acquisition this month, and according to a Yahoo spokesperson, its 10th acquisition since Mayer took over as CEO in July. The full list includes: Stamped, OntheAir, Snip.it, Alike, Jybe, Summly, Astrid, GoPollGo, Milewise and Loki”.