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 can give it...
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Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Report: Yahoo Will Announce Acquisition of Tumblr Today (SocialTimes) Yahoo’s board met Sunday and agreed to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, according to AllThingsD. The...
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It's all but official. Yahoo's board has reportedly approved the plan to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. Tumblr's board has reportedly agreed to the deal, too. So, unless something goes wildly wrong, then Yahoo is going to own Tumblr, the simple...
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Not so much with the leaning in.
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Tumblr faithfuls took to the service with letters and animated illustrations to protest the sale of the company to Yahoo for $1.1 billion.
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Thanks to iCloud, syncing an iPhone with a Mac is a piece of cake. But Mac users who don’t buy into the whole “one vendor to rule them all” thing will find that syncing an Android phone with OS X isn’t quite as easy. That said, it isn’t terribly...
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U.S. investors were unwilling to make big bets early Monday after four weeks of stock market gains, but Yahoo could stir things up later with news of a deal to buy blogging site Tumblr....
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CNN | Monday, May 20, 2013
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Yahoo is expected to announce Monday that it's acquiring the social media site Tumblr, in a deal The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets are reporting to be worth about $1.1 billion. Some analysts are calling the acquisition an effort by Yahoo...
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NPR | Monday, May 20, 2013
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How do the two biggest deals in the social media world in recent years, those for Tumblr and Instagram, stack up to each other? DealBook runs through the stats.
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Yahoo’s board has agreed to buy the popular blogging service Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash, people with knowledge of the agreement said on Sunday.
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Charting the growth of the big social networks that aren't Facebook. ...
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Charting the growth of the big social networks that aren't Facebook. ...
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When Yahoo first approached us eons ago, we were pretty skeptical. But after meeting the people on the Yahoo team and getting a picture of where they were going, we got religion. Maybe that’s too strong. We realized we were all eating at the same church...
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Yahoo’s move aims to make up for years of missing out on the growth of social networks and mobile devices. ...
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Yahoo Inc.'s board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr, people familiar with the matter said Sunday.
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The deal for the blogging site is designed to attract younger users to the ailing Web portal. The Wall Street Journal is basing its report on unnamed sources close to the situation.
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NPR | Sunday, May 19, 2013
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The deal for the blogging site is designed to attract younger users to the ailing Web portal. The newspaper is basing the report on unnamed sources close to the situation.
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NPR | Sunday, May 19, 2013
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That cat's out of the bag a day early, it seems. Yahoo's board has approved a $1.1 billion cash deal to purchase the blogging site Tumblr, according to The Wall Street Journal. We were expecting Yahoo to announce the acquisition during tomorrow's NYC...
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Yahoo Inc's board has approved a deal to buy blogging and social networking site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, the Wall Street Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying on Sunday.The post Yahoo’s Board Approves $1.1 Billion Tumblr...
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The art of analysis often fails to deliver ginarmous success simply because of how limited our worldview is when we go about identifying bottom-line impacting insights. Hence, this is a post on a simple concept that will drag you out of your current...
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What’s the price of “cool”? For Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, the number appears to be $1.1 billion. That’s how much cash Yahoo! plans to pay for New York-based social blogging platform Tumblr, according to multiple reports. Yahoo!’s board approved...
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With its imminent acquisition of Tumblr, and a snazzy new iPhone app, Yahoo! seems to be on a run. Here's an interesting chart from Statista that shows how investing in the original internet portal a year ago stacks up against the Facebook IPO and...
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Filed under: InvestingYahoo! Inc.'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) $1.1 billion cash buyout of Tumblr already has been criticized because of the large sum involved compared to Tumblr's extremely modest revenue, estimated at $13 million last year. However, the decision's...
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Filed under: InvestingThe drop in the budget deficit puts less pressure on a compromise by the White House and Congress over the federal deficit. (Reuters) Yahoo! Inc.'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) board approves a $1.1 billion cash deal for Tumblr. (Reuters) Chesapeake...
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Filed under: TechnologyGoogle Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube, which was founded eight years ago, has barely changed, except for the number videos posted at the site. It brings in almost no revenue for the search company, and its content remains dominated...
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Pinterest is unveiling a new pin structure for different types of products and an integration with a large number of retail brands, as it continues buildng up the platform and paving the way for growth. ...
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The deal, if confirmed, would be the largest for Yahoo! since Marissa Mayer took over as chief executive last year...
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Dawn | By:
AFP | Monday, May 20, 2013
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Yahoo is expected to announce the acquisition of blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion on Monday, with both companies' boards having agreed to the deal, according to reports in AllThingsD, which first broke the news of sale talks, as well as the New...
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[YouTube Link] Looks like there is a another super rich kid of Silicon Valley, the WSJ reports: Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the company, one of the people said. Tumblr would continue to operate largely as an independent business,...
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The post Yahoo! And Tumblr: It’s About Display, Streams & Native at Scale appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.The world is atwitter about Tumblr’s big exit to Yahoo!, and from what I can tell it seems this one is going to really happen...
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Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company’s website and mobile applications....
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Marissa Mayer, the former Googler who is now chief executive of Yahoo, is poised to create yet another nothing-to-riches tale in the web industry with a rumoured $1.1bn (£720m) acquisition of the blogging site Tumblr. Mayer called Yahoo’s board...
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New CEO Melissa Meyer hopes to attract more traffic and advertisers with social media company...
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UPDATE, 1:27 PM: Yahoo‘s spin machine will be hard at work today and tomorrow trying to persuade investors that CEO Marissa Mayer isn’t wildly overpaying for Tumblr. Although the social media service has become red hot — it averages about 75.8M...
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This story has been updated.Like a host of other brands, Yahoo has a millennial problem, and its acquisition of Tumblr could be a step toward fixing it. But will new ownership help Tumblr with one of its biggest problems -- drawing major advertisers?...
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Sure, Tumblr could be a GeoCities for Yahoo. What if it's a YouTube? Here's what the video site's financials looked like when Google bought it.
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Kara Swisher: As part of the deal, Tumblr CEO David Karp — who got a windfall of cash from the deal — will stay at Yahoo for four years at least and retain much control over the service, much in the same way Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom does at Facebook....
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Tumblr seemed to be playing hard-to-get for a little while, but no longer: Yahoo! has approved a $1.1 billion deal to purchase the hip social-blogging platform. According to AllThingsD, the tech giant’s board unanimously approved the all-cash deal...
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May 19 (TheWrap.com) - Yahoo's board has unanimously signed off on a $1.1 billion deal to the blogging service Tumblr, reports published Sunday indicated. The deal will be announced Monday morning and represents a major move by chief executive Marissa...
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Yahoo’s board is on board with spending over a billion to nab Tumblr, according to Allthingsd.com and The Wall Street Journal. The approval, reached Sunday, clears the way for Yahoo to complete a monster $1.1 billion deal to acquire Tumblr, the New...
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Yahoo's board has reportedly approved a $1.1 billion, all-cash offer to acquire Tumblr, a rapidly-growing and very popular microblogging server. ...
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More on Yahoo/Tumblr: Kara Swisher reports Tumblr founder/CEO David Karp "will stay at Yahoo for four years at least and retain much control over the service." There are concerns about how Yahoo will deal with Tumblr's mountains of adult content without...
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(NEW YORK) — Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company’s website and mobile applications. The Sunnyvale,...
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NEW YORK — Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications.
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Filed under: Investing It's been a busy weekend of buyout speculation for Yahoo! . Will it buy Tumblr? Will it not buy Tumblr? Is the dot-com dino buying a site that's missing the "e" because its own growth catalysts have been stuck on "E" for years...
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Earlier today, Yahoo sent press invites to a "product-related" event in New York City Monday afternoon and there are already two separate rumors about the company's plans. The first, from Bloomberg, concerns the event specifically and cites a "person...
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Gravity sponsored our PandoMonthly with Chris Dixon last night, and it was appropriate timing for them. This month we’re focused on two trends that are central to the company’s very existence: Software remaking surprising corners of the business...
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Call us crazy, but it sure feels like Yahoo's had one heck of a spring. When it comes to spending, anyway. Just as soon as it can get one check to clear, the search icon is breaking the ink back out to write another. According to a breaking tweet from...
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Last night, Peter Kafka and Kara Swisher of All Things D reported that Yahoo might buy Tumblr for a price close to $1 billion. Then, GigaOm suggested Facebook might swoop in and buy Tumblr at a higher price for itself. Then, Forbes's Jeff Bercovici said...
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