Yahoo have spent $95M on Verdisoft, Flickr, DialPad + Stadeon

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Nice analysis from PaidContent, and seems Yahoo has paid Web 1.5 prices vs the MySpace Web 2.0 premiums (ie tens of millions vs hundreds) Nice Timing. From an entrepreneurs' perspective the more I read this the more I question why the first 'partnership' preference for a consumer orientated website isnt portals rather than VC : "Going through Yahoo's 10-Q for the first two quarters of this year, some interesting figures emerge: - Yahoo closed one acquisition in Q1 of this year: a software development company was bought for approximately $58 million and consisted of $54 million in cash consideration, $3 million related to stock options exchanged and $1 million of direct transaction costs. SiliconBeat recently wrote about Yahoo's buyout of Verdisoft, a mobile syncing software development company, so this has to be the one. In Q2, Yahoo bought three companies: the total estimated purchase price for all three was about $37 million and consisted of $32 million in cash consideration, $3 million related to stock options exchanged, and $2 million of incurred liabilities and direct transaction costs. That price includes the three publicly announced buyouts I could find: Flickr, DialPad, and Stadeon."