Ever hear of Rockmelt? Until the last couple of days, neither have I. It was meant to be a web browser for the social media age. You’ll have until August 31 to enjoy it.
Announced yesterday, Yahoo is acquiring Rockmelt for somewhere around $65 million dollars. Yahoo wants to use Rockmelt’s technologies, and it’s engineers, to better compete against Google and the other major players of the web browsing market. Word is Rockmelt is working ceaselessly on it’s mobile market and Yahoo wants to capitalize. Rockmelt was founded in the Silicon Valley in Nov. 2010 but with little success. Now, with their engineers and Yahoo’s buying power, they hope to create something big and beautiful.
Look, I appreciate what Yahoo is trying to do, but I think Marissa Meyer and her team is doing too much too fast. Since she took the CEO seat last year, Yahoo purchased at least 20 other small startups. The biggest was Tumblr?for a whopping billion?plus dollars. I think that’s too much for one year.?She should just take the purchases she already made and make them better. Once these acquirements get off the ground, then go and look for other companies. I know this is the rush-rush, should have been done yesterday 21st century business world. But?am I being too old fashioned by saying Yahoo should slow their role?