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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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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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See also Mediagazer| 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.
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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.”| 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 … | 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 … | 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.| 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| 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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With $1.5M Led By Winklevoss Capital, BitInstant Aims To Be The Go-To Site To Buy And Sell Bitcoins — Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin Harvard graduates who famously sparred with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook and are now working as tech investors through Winklevoss Capital …
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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.
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