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May 21, 2012 09:25 pm GMT

Brad Garlinghouses Suggestion For Saving Yahoo? Buy Flipboard And Gravity

garlinghouseBrad Garlinghouse, who just took over as CEO of YouSendIt and used to be a senior vice president at Yahoo several years ago, has a few ideas for the ailing web giant.The company's got a pile of cash including $2.6 billion in cash and marketable securities from the end of last quarter, plus $6.3 billion more from selling the Alibaba stake over the weekend."Yahoo has billions and billions of dollars. Yahoo can do anything that they want," he said, adding that he thinks the homepage alone is worth more than $1 billion in search and advertising revenue.Garlinghouse thinks the company should be aggressive about acquiring young companies to bring in entrepreneurial leadership. At the top of his list are Flipboard and Gravity.

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