{"id":155,"date":"2006-01-12T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2006\/01\/12\/news-flash-yahoo-acquires-proto-startup\/"},"modified":"2006-01-12T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T04:40:00","slug":"news-flash-yahoo-acquires-proto-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/01\/12\/news-flash-yahoo-acquires-proto-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"News flash: Yahoo acquires proto-startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo <a href=\"http:\/\/jeremy.zawodny.com\/blog\/archives\/006124.html\">puts it<\/a>, &#8220;if you ever wonder whether you company is getting a reputation, just wait for the blogosphere to make fun of you.&#8221; And so it has &#8212; Greg Yardley has a great faux news release about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo<\/a> acquiring an unnamed Web 2.0 company &#8220;three days before it was to be founded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He quotes Chris P. Bacon, Director of Hype Production, as saying: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cYahoo! is committed to generating mass quantities of free public relations by acquiring more pre-revenue, pre-business plan companies than any other global Internet company.&#8221; And Hugh Jorgan, newly-appointed Vice President of Pre-Business Development, says: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cWe\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve been acquiring companies earlier and earlier &#8211; before VC funding, before revenue, and in some cases before the completion of their products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be as funny it if didn&#8217;t have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/01\/09\/yahoo-acquires-webjay\/\">a grain of truth<\/a> to it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo puts it, &#8220;if you ever wonder whether you company is getting a reputation, just wait for the blogosphere to make fun of you.&#8221; And so it has &#8212; Greg Yardley has a great faux news release about Yahoo acquiring an unnamed Web 2.0 company &#8220;three days before it was to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/01\/12\/news-flash-yahoo-acquires-proto-startup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News flash: Yahoo acquires proto-startup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}