These days, most writers have a “must buy ASAP” mentality when it comes to fixing problems or emerging opportunities. So it was refreshing to see Giga Om’s Robert Young show some common sense with his assessment of whether or not Yahoo! should pull the trigger on Facebook or not. Read his analysis here. In a nutshell, he advises Yahoo! to clone and not buy Facebook because Yahoo! is a natural at social media. He is right, if Facebook was a company that could be acquired for less than $30M (like Delicio.us), then it might make sense, but for Yahoo! to dilute that much for a company like Facebook, as a Yahoo! shareholder, I am not personally convinced.
To read our previous concern with having a bloke like Mark Zuckerberg under Yahoo!’s bureaucracy, click here (Scroll down to #7 for that).
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