Yahoo's rich Acquisition Basket worth $18 billion

Yahoo! has always been on an acquisition spree since its beginning. Incepted during the early World Wide Web days, Yahoo! was ahead of its time concept. Soon after being founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo! received $2 million in venture capital in 1995. During the end of the 90's Yahoo! was a Star, with share price of about $100 per share.

Yahoo's story has always excited me, its a journey through peaks and valleys. While most of the time Yahoo! shares have been in uncertainty as to what they will cost the next day, one thing that has not changed is Yahoo's hunger for new products. Yahoo! has always been in the fore front of the Acquisition scene in the Silicon Valley with over $18 billion(approx, actual amount is some what more than this) spent on buying small and big businesses till date.

SEE ALSO : Timeline of Yahoo!

In the last 25 days, Yahoo! has acquired 3 new businesses(Web based) including the famous Micro Blogging website Tumblr. The other two are Ghost Bird Software and Rondee (free conference calling service).

Below mentioned are some of the biggest acquisition made by Yahoo!

Broadcast.com - $5.7 billion (1st April 1999)
Geocities - $3.6 billion (28th May 1999)
eGroups - $432 million (31st August 2000)
Hotjobs.com - $436 million (12th Feb 2002)
Overture Services Inc. - $1.63 billion (14th June 2003)
Kelkoo.com - $579 million (26th March 2004)
Right Media - $850 million (29th April 2007)
BlueLithium - $300 million (4th September 2007)
Zimbra.com - $350 million (17th September 2007)
Tumblr.com - $1.1 billion (17th May 2013)

Other famous startup acquisition include Ludicorp which is now Flickr and the social bookmarking website Delicious. Now under the supervision of Marrisa Mayor, Yahoo! is again trying to gain its cool quotient by acquiring some new modern web networks.

But with competitors like Google and Facebook, the path ahead of Yahoo! will not be easy, but i am sure Yahoo! will never stop being adventurous with its nature of buying stuff a lot.