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Yahoo! seeks slice of smartphone photo-sharing pie

Source: PhysOrg.com, Dec 12 2012, 4:50pm CST

Yahoo! joined the fray over smartphone photo-sharing Wednesday by making it more enticing for iPhone users to use its Flickr service amid a rift between Twitter and the popular photo app Instagram. Yahoo! j ...

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Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

Source: Big Journalism  |   May 19 2013, 6:49pm CDT

Kafka also notes that the racy content was not even a violation of Tumblr's terms of service agreement as the site is set up so that users can "flag" NSFW blogs if they like, though the terms do state that porn videos are unwanted c ...

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Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn'

Source: My Joy Online   |   May 19 2013, 6:40pm CDT

Yahoo's board has approved a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for $1.1bn (£725m), US media reports say. The acquisition is expected to be announced as early as Monday. The deal was a "foregone conclusion" and was u ...

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"We've worked hard with our partners to make sure your pictures are displayed beautifully on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr."


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Tumblr Brand Will Remain -- With Mostly "Hands-Off" Product Approach by Yahoo's Mayer

Source: All Things Digital  |   May 19 2013, 6:12pm CDT

That includes definitive promises by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to once-sale-shy Tumblr CEO David Karp to allow him to shepherd the fast-growing blogging product and with no forced integration with Yahoo’s other ...

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Yahoo just bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion: Report

Source: amNewYork  |   May 19 2013, 6:08pm CDT

Aging online portal Yahoo! is set to buy the hugely popular blogging platform Tumblr after the $1.1 billion deal was cleared by Yahoo's board Sunday, according to All Things D, the tech blog of The Wall Street Journal. The all-cash dea ...

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Yahoo’s Board Approves $1.1 Billion Purchase of Tumblr: report

Source: Vancouver Sun  |   May 19 2013, 5:51pm CDT

Yahoo! Inc.’s board has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr Inc., a service that hosts 108 million blogs, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. Tumblr woul ...

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This Is A Hopelful Coment About Yahoo's Purchase Of Tumblr

Source: Forbes  |   May 19 2013, 5:45pm CDT

As far as we know, as my colleague Jeff Bercovici reports, Yahoo has agreed to purchase Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. This might be a good idea, this might not be: here are any number of tech acquisitions where the outcome has been rather ...

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Rough and Tumblr

Source: Economist  |   May 19 2013, 5:22pm CDT

AT A recent conference, Ken Goldman, the chief financial officer of Yahoo, admitted that the internet giant had an ageing audience and was looking for things to “make us cool again”. The firm's senior executives appear to think Tumblr ...

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Where Yahoo's Tumblr Ranks Next to Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest

Source: The Atlantic  |   May 19 2013, 4:52pm CDT

Yahoo announced they will acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion this afternoon. The news comes about a year after Facebook snatched up the hot startup Instagram. In a post-Facebook world, that leaves two large independent social networ ...

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Yahoo Grabs More Social Media Estate With Tumblr

Source: Wall Street Cheat Sheet  |   May 19 2013, 4:22pm CDT

Marissa Mayer, who has run Yahoo since leaving Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) last year, engineered this latest acquisition after becoming interested in the social media startup several months ago. Founded in 2007, ...

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