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Buying Tumblr Will Leave Yahoo With The Same Old Identity Crisis

Source: ReadWriteWeb

If it goes through as planned, buying Tumblr would be a signature deal for Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in her effort to transform the aging Web-media company into a producer of habit-forming online experiences. Tumblr has some 100 ...
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Monday Papers: Yahoo buys start-up Tumblr for ‘$1bn’

Source: Citywire.co.uk

Financial Times: Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo, has made her first big bet to jump-start growth at the stalled web portal company with the purchase of New York start-up Tumblr, according to two people ...
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Nation/World Dispatches

Source: The Portland Maine Press Herald

Obama urges male grads to accept responsibilities President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to "transform the way we think about manhood," urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excu ...
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Yahoo Deal Shows Power Shift

Source: Wall Street Journal

Yahoo Inc. has agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, a six-year-old company with more than 100 million users but very little revenue, a deal that highlights the shifting balance of power in the technology business. In a 2012 interview, Tumblr's D ...
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Yahoo plans to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Yahoo agreed to buy the blogging service Tumblr for around $1.1 billion in cash, reports The New York Times . If the deal is approved, it would be the biggest yet under the tenure of new Yahoo CEO Marissa ...
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From high school drop out to billionaire

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Set to make a fortune: David Karp. Photo: Bloomberg Five years ago, tech prodigy David Karp was determined that the business he founded in his mother's small New York apartment would not be absorbed by a multina ...
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Yahoo! going social

Source: New York Post

Tumblr’s sale to Yahoo! comes just in time for the New York City-founded startup — investors and staff at the six-year-old blogging site were getting restless as the company failed to make money fast enough. Now, Tumblr founder David ...
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Yahoo! to buy blog-maker Tumblr for $1.1 billion

Source: MSN India

Yahoo! is eyeing the move to attract more users from the 18 to 24-year-old age bracket, and that the Internet pioneer sees the fast-growing Tumblr as one of the coolest sites with young Internet user New Yor ...
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Markets Live: ASX eyes 5-year high

Source: The Age

The ASX moved close to a 5-year high after Wall Street reached record highs, while the Aussie dollar has reclaimed some lost ground. 1:21pm: There are a few companies missing out on today's gains. Telstra has remained on the si ...
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5 Reasons Tumblr + Yahoo is Good For Users

Source: Forbes

Whenever a spunky, growing startup gets sold to an established player – the cry goes out. Users won’t like it. The culture will be ruined. The startup will be subsumed by its parent. Sometimes it’s true, but in ...
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