Yahoo said on Friday it agreed to buy fashion startup Polyvore to help drive traffic and strengthen its mobile and social offerings.
Yahoo Buys Fashion Website Polyvore
A new member of the “Mavens” club.
Polyvore
Yahoo, which did not disclose terms of the deal, said Polyvore will accelerate its “Mavens” growth strategy.
The company has been focusing on four areas — mobile, video, native advertising and social — which it calls Mavens, to drive user engagement and ad sales as it battles intense competition from Google and Facebook.
Revenue from Mavens made up about one-third of the company’s total revenue in the quarter ended June 30.
The Mavens portfolio includes BrightRoll, mobile app network Flurry, mobile ad buying platform Yahoo Gemini and blogging site Tumblr.
Polyvore, the brainchild of three ex-Yahoo engineers, was started in 2007.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company allows users to mix and match articles of clothing and accessories and customize them into “sets.”
Polyvore’s co-founder and CEO Jess Lee was earlier part of Google’s associate manager program, which Marissa Mayer headed before joining Yahoo as CEO.
(Reporting by Kshitiz Goliya in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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