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May 19, 2013, 12:40 PM

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Why Yahoo Doesn't Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem  —  If you write about Tumblr as a business, you are required to note that Tumblr has a lot of porn.  —  How much porn?  You'll have to make something up, because the only people who know much porn the blogging service hosts work at the blogging service …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Tumblr May Reject Yahoo's $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”  —  Tumblr employees feel that Yahoo's $1.1 billion offer is “too low” and view it as “only a first offer,” according to sources close to acquisition talks.  Yahoo may have to increase the offer to close the deal.
Paul Sloan / CNET:
One issue holding up Apple iRadio: The economics of skipping songs  —  Apple wants to roll out its streaming music service this summer, but it's still hammering out details with Sony Music over some very specific terms.  —  Apple, which has been aiming for a summer rollout of a streaming music service …
Mat Honan / Wired:
Welcome to Google Island  —  I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird.  The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco's Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session.  My last recollection was of Google CEO Larry Page taking questions …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
How two Valve engineers walked away with the company's augmented reality glasses  —  Three months ago, celebrated video game publisher Valve did something completely out of character: it fired up to 25 workers, in what one employee dubbed the “great cleansing.”
David Pierce / The Verge:
Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013  —  Android is coming to our TVs, but has Google already lost the battle for the living room?  —  It's easy to miss the Google TV booth here at I/O 2013, hidden in the corner of the third floor.  That may not be an accident …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Behind The Scenes Of The Big Google Maps Redesign And Its Technical Challenges  —  Google unveiled its completely redesigned Google Maps product on the web at I/O 2013, and at a panel dedicated to the new Maps experience, Maps User Experience Design Lead Jonah Jones and Engineering Director …
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
YouTube Turns Eight As Platform Surpasses More Than 100 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute  —  YouTube turns eight years old today, reminding each of us in some odd way how young or old we really are.  Remember, the company launched back in 2005, the same year that Michael Jackson was found …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
iOS and Android gaming revenue tripled that of handheld consoles in Q1 2013: App Annie  —  Research firms IDC and App Annie have again joined forces to release their second quarterly report on mobile gaming, the key takeaway being that tablets and smartphones continue to dominate the handheld console space …
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