Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer makes her first acquisition
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer with the Stamped team in New York.
(Credit: Yahoo)
Yahoo has acquired its first startup: Stamped, a recommendations engine built by former Google colleagues of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer — a team Mayer wanted to bring into the fold at Yahoo.
Stamped, which launched as a smartphone app last November, lets users recommend books, movies, restaurants, and other things to friends by giving them a virtual stamp of approval. It uses a Twitter-like social graph that lets users follow recommendations from both friends and celebrities, like chef Mario Batali.
The company had…
The rest is here: Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer makes her first acquisition
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