For years, the Silicon Valley company has been caught between being an online content and news provider and a supplier of technology tools. If it embraces the latter, the company will inevitably butt heads with Facebook and Google.

As originally reported by Reuters, Marissa Mayer, the company’s audacious CEO, is slowly steering the giant back to its tech roots. A source told me that Mayer has been taking meetings with promising startups in the mobile and social media space, evidence of an aggressive M&A strategy.

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