Facebook usually does the acquire/hire thing, often without purchasing the companies' actual products, which means they're integrating the acquired devs. Yahoo has 4x the number of employees of facebook (where would they go?) and a number of products that would be totally new for Facebook. They would probably have to be run as they are now, by mostly the same org structure, which isn't at all like the more organic growth that Facebook has chosen so far.
Yahoo also manages a lot of content and editorial work, which is not in business units that would matter to facebook, and would be ripe for disinvestment.
>They would probably have to be run as they are now, by mostly the same org structure, which isn't at all like the more organic growth that Facebook has chosen so far.
Facebook usually does the acquire/hire thing, often without purchasing the companies' actual products, which means they're integrating the acquired devs. Yahoo has 4x the number of employees of facebook (where would they go?) and a number of products that would be totally new for Facebook. They would probably have to be run as they are now, by mostly the same org structure, which isn't at all like the more organic growth that Facebook has chosen so far.