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Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr — According to sources close to the situation, the Yahoo board plans to meet Sunday night to decide whether to approve a $1.1 billion all-cash offer for New York-based blogging site Tumblr.
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If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn? — If Yahoo succeeds in its attempt to acquire Tumblr, it will end up with one of the hottest Internet properties in today's Web, with access to the coveted youth market and a foothold in mobile. — It will also wind up with a whole lot of porn.
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Tumblr May Reject Yahoo's $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low” — Tumblr feels that Yahoo's $1.1 billion offer is “too low” and views it as “only a first offer,” according to sources close to acquisition talks. Yahoo may have to significantly increase the offer to close the deal.| Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: |
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Yahoo's Mayer Said to Be Preparing Updates for Flickr Photo Site — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer will unveil updates to the company's Flickr photo-sharing site at a press event in New York scheduled for May 20, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million user IDs leaked: Kyodo — (Reuters) - Yahoo Japan Corp said on Friday night it suspected that up to 22 million of its user IDs may have been “leaked” and it detected an unauthorized attempt to access the administrative system of its web portal Yahoo Japan, the Kyodo news agency reported.| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
MacBook Air inventory begins dwindling ahead of Apple's WWDC — With Intel's next-generation Haswell processors set to launch in a matter of weeks and WWDC to kick off soon after, availability of Apple's 13-inch MacBook Air had begun to dry up at major authorized resellers.
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Big Data Analytics Specialist Tableau Software Raises $254M In IPO, Shares Close 64% Up; Marketo's First Day Up 78% — One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space.| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
GrubSeam? Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge — Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address the many inefficiencies …
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Apple removes Bang With Friends from App Store — The eyebrow-raising app won't be initiating Facebook-friend hookups for iPhone owners for the time being. — No more knocking boots with your Facebook friends, iPhone users. Apple has removed the salaciously titled Bang With Friends iPhone application from its App Store.| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
DirecTV Consider Bid for Hulu — DirecTV, the second largest U.S. pay-TV provider, is weighing a potential bid for Hulu, the latest company to show interest in the six-year-old video site, according to a person familiar with the matter. — Hulu's owners, including Walt Disney Co. …
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's lax iTunes streaming security gives out a free copy of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories — Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and Justin Timberlake are just a few of the artists over the past year to offer full-length, high quality streams of their newest albums on iTunes in the days before release.| Matt Hartley / Financial Post: |
Canada's Competition Bureau plans investigation into Google Canada — Canada's Competition Bureau is gearing up to launch a formal inquiry into the business practices of Google Inc.'s Canadian operations. — Google was recently notified by the Competition Bureau of the watchdog organization's intentions …
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