Yahoo buys Cloud party enhances technology development strength

Yahoo buys virtual world web game maker Cloud Party

Yahoo's technology development prowess is the weakest of several internet giants in the United States. Mayer after taking office, acquired a large number of development experts. Recently, Yahoo once again acquired a virtual world game Web game Developers "Cloud-party", the goal is to recruit talented people.

In the early years, there was a virtual world game "Second Life" is very popular, Cloud-party products and the game is very similar, users do not need to install plug-ins, you can directly run the game in the browser. Players can live, work, and create their own virtual image in the virtual world.

It is reported that Cloud-party company was founded in 2011. After the acquisition is complete, the company will go to Yahoo to work. The company's gaming service will stop in March this year.

Yahoo confirmed the deal, but did not disclose which projects will be cloud-party development engineers.

At present, Yahoo Portal has a game channel, providing some casual games and game content, but in the field of online gaming, as a veteran portal Yahoo is only a small player.

After Ms. Mayer took the helm, Yahoo's interest in online gaming began to increase, and last year, Yahoo acquired the player scale, which provides back-end services for gaming infrastructure, offering service functions such as game-player payments and user management.

Also last July, Yahoo bought a company Bignoggins to develop sports mobile gaming software.

It is reported that Mayer personally like to play games, which may be a reason for Yahoo to increase investment in the game area.

Mayer has so far acquired nearly 30 new technology companies, most in the mobile software sector, these massive acquisitions for Yahoo revenue, Yahoo's prospects to pull, how many items can be purchased to save Yahoo, still doubt, to join Yahoo has never been in charge of the big technology companies Mayer, no doubt in a " Mergers and acquisitions gamble ".