[mysterywhiteboy]

I don't work for Yahoo, but I must say I would seriously consider working there now with Marissa Mayer at the helm.

Mayer appears to be doing everything she can to drag Yahoo back to being relevant, and to me that sounds like an interesting (and potentially rewarding) challenge.

I just hope she is looking for innovation from within as well as from acquisitions.

[chuhnk]

A lot of people feel this way. I feel this way even after having worked at Google. Yahoo is going through an exciting transition and I'm confident it'll be competing with Google once more with Marissa Mayer at the top. Its not going to be quick or easy, this is about the long game.

[jskonhovd]

This is a strange comment to me. Does buying a large corporation make you relevant? I didn't see people making the same comment after Google bought YouTube and Motorola, or when Facebook bought Instagram. Now those companies have been attractive places to work for a long time, arguably since they where founded. I don't believe that Yahoo has the attractive engineering culture that Facebook or Google has. I believe if they screw this acquisition up, it will be the nail in the coffin for yahoo. They will go the way of AOL. I think Mayer has the toughest job in Technology right now, I hope this is the move that will spark the turn around.

[wslh]

It is to early to speak about the future success of Yahoo.

[mattquiros]

I don't work for Yahoo either, but I still wouldn't consider working there even with Marissa Mayer on board. It just has a better CEO but it's still a doomed company. I can't think of a single Yahoo! product that I sincerely believe in and would be excited to work on.

[camus]

On the contrary i would seriously consider getting another job because i would feel like the management is totally broken.

Yahoo is not going to be relevant again because they bought Tumblr. They cant even make their own product relevant.

I cant even understand why anybody would buy Tumblr 1 billion or more.

Dailymotion would have been a good deal, this service is relevant and people are starting to be willing to pay to watch videos. They could have bought loads of usefull stuff for 1 billion.

To me it just feels like a publicity stunt to make the stock go higher for a few days , but what is the long term strategy ?

At that rate Mayer will be out in 1 year from now.

[venomsnake]

Well yahoo has things to offer to the tumblr team - a lot of technical and scalability know how. I won't be surprised if they are able to shave operating costs a lot and utilize better the labor force.

The problem is that the valuable asset of tumblr are its users. And users are fickle bunch.

[w1ntermute]

Cutting costs is nice and all, but these are Internet companies. It's expected that an acquisition will bring about much more substantial synergies than they would for the merger of two ketchup companies.