[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.