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Yahoo Brings Ads to Tumblr’s Web Dashboard

Yahoo Brings Ads to Tumblr’s Web Dashboard

Tumblr has expanded the it’s sponsored posts to it’s web dashboards, it was introduced to its mobile apps last month. Users will be able to re-blog the ads like follow and share the ads directly from their dashboard, the sponsors posts will be marked with a dollar sign so the users know they are paid posts. “These posts will simply blend in with the posts from the blogs you follow,” [...]
Yahoo’s Tumblr Purchase Resulted in 72,000 Blogs Shifting To WordPress From Tumblr

Yahoo’s Tumblr Purchase Resulted in 72,000 Blogs Shifting To WordPress From Tumblr

Tumblr is famously known for animated gifs and nsfw posts, since Yahoo’s acquisition rumours started last week, analysts have been predicting user discontent and crackdown on nasty posts.  Even before the news became official on Monday, 72,000 users migrated from Tumblr to WordPress according to WordPress’s founder Matt Mullenweg’s blog post. Here’s his post: It now looks pretty certain [...]
Yahoo’s Tumblr Buyout Official. Marissa Mayer Promises “not to screw it up”

Yahoo’s Tumblr Buyout Official. Marissa Mayer Promises “not to screw it up”

The worst kept tech secret of last week is true – Microblogging website Tumblr is being acquired by Yahoo. Marissa Mayer announced the deal today morning along with a “promise not to screw it up.” Yohoo! is coughing $1.1 billion for Tumblr, “substantially all of which is payable in cash,” Yahoo said. Yahoo is not absorbing its acquisition, Tumblr is going to run separately [...]
Tumblr Buyout Gets Yahoo Board’s Approval

Tumblr Buyout Gets Yahoo Board’s Approval

Yahoo’s  board has just given nod to Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer’s plans to acquire publishing platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion on Sunday according to reports by AllthingsD. Tumblr acquisition  will be Yahoos biggest acquisition and the fourth biggest overall. As first reported by AllthingsD  last week, Yahoo is all set to buy out Tumblr, and the amount of cash to change hands was [...]
Yahoo Invites Press For ‘Product-Related’ Announcement On May 20, Tumblr Acquisition  News Expected

Yahoo Invites Press For ‘Product-Related’ Announcement On May 20, Tumblr Acquisition News Expected

Yahoo is organizing a press event in New York on Monday, May 20th  which will be addressed by CEO Marissa Mayer according to CNBC, the event will be “product-related,”  which is rumoured to be about Yahoo’s Tumblr acquisition. Tumblr has been in news this week, on Thursday All Things D reported that Yahoo might buy Tumblr for a price close to $1 billion.Then, GigaOm reported that Facebook [...]
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