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Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1 Billion Deal as Expected — The Yahoo board has approved a massive $1.1 billion all-cash deal to buy Tumblr. — Sources close to the board said the deal was a foregone conclusion and was an unanimous vote by the Silicon Valley Internet giant.
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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 how much porn the blogging service hosts work …
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| John Saroff / Saroff's Place: |
On Yahoo & Tumblr: “We have vision, delusion and hallucination and I want to know which one this is.” — “We have vision, delusion and hallucination and I want to know which one this is.” - quote anonymously attributed to Yahoo COO Henrique de Castro while an exec at Google.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company's Tax Avoidance Machinations In The UK — Google is under fire in the UK for its tax practices in the country, and a new key witness (who spoke to The Sunday Times) might put them in deeper hot water when he hands over a reported 100,000 emails …
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| 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 … | 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.”
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| 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 …
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Thanks:@jyarbrough| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
RapidShare Fires 75% of its Staff After “Rogue Site” Revamp Bites — After its launch in 2004, RapidShare's speedy growth saw the company become one the largest file-hosting sites on the Internet. — However, like all sites of this nature, RapidShare became popular with those looking to store copyright-infringing material.
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| 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 … | 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 …
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YouTube Blog, The Next Web and The Verge
| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom — The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal. — I had just wrapped up a conversation with a man who owned a pair of Google's Internet-connected glasses, Google Glass.| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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