Ben Werdmuller

Tag: yahoo

  • Why I think Marissa Mayer should buy Automattic

    PandoDaily reports that Yahoo! has sold half its stake in Alibaba for $4.5 billion. Their take is that Yahoo! needs one or two big products to turn the company around, and that Marissa Mayer should look to successful large acquisitions like PayPal and YouTube. I agree. And I can’t think of a better company for […]

  • A pretty good day for Marissa Mayer: why Yahoo! could still win

    Not only was she named as the new Yahoo! CEO today – but she’s also announced that she’s expecting her first child. That’s up there with Mark Zuckerberg’s graduation-IPO-wedding triple whammy earlier this year. At the time of writing, Yahoo! is worth over $19B. It’s certainly languished for the better part of a decade, and […]

  • Delicious: not so tasty now

    He’s dead, Dave. Everybody’s dead. Everybody is dead, Dave. It’s the end of the road: Delicious, one of the darlings of the “Web 2.0” movement, is being shelved. The social bookmarking site was famous for its simple interface, which introduced tags and cloud services to the world, not to mention creative use of available domain […]

  • Public IT project hell: let’s make government work for us

    Why does it cost $235 million to integrate a few IT systems? Johannes Ernst contrasts the Yahoo/Facebook deep integration announcement with the US government’s announcement that they will spend $235 million on integrating incompatible healthcare IT systems, and asks some pertinent questions: I assume we all agree that an environment in which leading-edge companies innovate […]