Yahoo hasn’t been playing around when it comes to acquisitions. Its latest, announced Tuesday, is PlayerScale, which makes software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming. Four-year-old PlayerScale has built a sizable audience, and it could fit well with Yahoo’s new direction. “This deal is intriguing for a couple of reasons,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. “First, this is a people-driven deal in that Yahoo recognizes that the PlayerScale team is as important as the company’s technology.”
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Yahoo Pulls PlayerScale Under Its Umbrella
Posted by: Peter Suciu May 24, 2013 05:00 AMYahoo hasn’t been playing around when it comes to acquisitions. Its latest, announced Tuesday, is PlayerScale, which makes software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming. Four-year-old PlayerScale has built a sizable audience, and it could fit well with Yahoo’s new direction. “This deal is intriguing for a couple of reasons,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. “First, this is a people-driven deal in that Yahoo recognizes that the PlayerScale team is as important as the company’s technology.”