Dive summary:
- HR head Jackie Reses announced to employees during a FYI meeting that the company was working on making two significant acquisitions and six smaller talent acqhires in the near future.
- The companies were not revealed; industry speculation points to possible acquisition of Pinterest, Tumblr, and Foursquare.
- Insiders say Yahoo has been looking at a range of possible acquisitions in areas such as advertising tech, mobile monetization and "daily delight," a phrase CEO Marissa Mayer uses frequently.
From the article:
"The list of possible big deals goes on: Hulu (which needs a tasty content element to make sense) as a video play; Millennial Media or Jumptap for mobile ads; Quora for social answers; Flipboard for social media consumption; Rubicon or Pubmatic, for ad targeting; and many more."
