Yahoo has acquired PlayerScale, a startup developer of infrastructure software for cross-platform gaming, adding to its string of recent acquisitions. The Internet giant said in a Twitter message Thursday that it would continue to support ...
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Yahoo again ranks as one of the world’s 100 most valuable brands. The Internet company nabbed the 92nd spot in the annual list of global companies from multiple industries including technology, retail and service, released Tuesday ...
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Yahoo has made some radical changes to its Flickr photo sharing service, which now has a more photo-filled interface and comes with a free terabyte of storage so that users can upload images at their original resolution. The changes were ...
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Yahoo will acquire blogging site Tumblr for approximately $1.1 billion, the companies confirmed Monday. Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business, with David Karp remaining CEO. The service will continue to be developed ...
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Yahoo has confirmed widespread reports that it will acquire the popular blogging service Tumblr, and also promised not to "screw it up." The deal is worth about US$1.1 billion, nearly all in cash, and is expected to close in the second half ...
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Yahoo has promised "not to screw up" Tumblr now that it has acquired the freewheeling blogging site. But there are still several ways Tumblr could get better, and worse, as a Yahoo-owned company. On the bad side, there's the threat of ...
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Yahoo's board of directors has approved spending $1.1 billion in cash to buy popular blogging site Tumblr, according to The Wall Street Journal. The plan is for Tumblr to operate as an independent business, the Journal reported on Sunday, ...
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REINVIGORATED technology player Yahoo has unveiled a dusted-off design of Flickr that offers users 1 Terrabyte of free photo storage only hours after the company's dramatic acquisition of blogging site Tumblr. Yahoo chief executive ...
Yahoo has concluded a $1.1bn (£725m) deal to acquire Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, which achieved revenues of just $13m (£8.56m) in its last financial year. The deal is the largest undertaken by ...
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Yahoo has called a mystery press event in New York City on Monday afternoon, hot on the heels of rumors that it plans to buy Tumblr for US$1 billion. "Join us as we share something special," says the invite, sent to members of the press ...
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Never before has a fashion brand exclusively streamed their fashion collection through Tumblr—until today. Club Monaco is an international lifestyle brand that designs fashion and accessories for men and women. They offer customers ...
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Nokia has unveiled its first Lumia smartphone with a metal cover, low-light camera features and new social network apps. But the new model failed to impress investors, who sent the company's stock down more than 5 per cent. The features ...
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Tumblr is giving its users more options to share their posts across other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, with a new iOS app released Wednesday. Available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, the mobile app lets users ...
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Animated GIFs, journal entries, cat photos, and now, more ads. Tumblr, in an effort to further boost its revenue, is rolling out ads into users' mobile feeds. The privately held social-networking and blogging site introduced sponsored ...
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Americans are so fixated on social networks that they spend an average of 16 minutes out of every hour on them, according to a study by Experian Marketing Services. In the U.S., 27% of users' time online is spent on forums and social ...
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