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Tumblr users take to blogs to express fear over 'Yahoo takeover'
Many Tumblr users are already up in arms over worries that their beloved blogging service could lose its hip edge under Yahoo's control. The blogging website was filled with rants after Yahoo announced on Monday it was acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion....
Tags: Marissa Mayer, Sociology, Social Media, Networking, Social Sciences
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Yahoo's rise in Asia offsets risk from Tumblr bet
ReutersBy Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging service Tumblr will be a test of her ability to revive the aging Web portal. Luckily for her, her performance may be...Tags: Marissa Mayer, Sociology, Online Media Industry, Arts and Culture, Facebook
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FACTBOX-Yahoo's acquisitions: from Geocities to Tumblr
ReutersSAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc announced on Monday it would shell out $1.1 billion to buy blogging service Tumblr, in a bid to revitalize its brand and attract a younger generation of users. Yahoo has been criticized for making big...Tags: Marissa Mayer, Companies and Corporations, Google Inc., Computing and Information Technology Industry, Computer Networking and Internet
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PRESS DIGEST-New York Times business news - May 21
ReutersMay 21 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * Yahoo's $1.1 billion proposed acquisition of Tumblr is a huge coup for the young...Tags: Marissa Mayer, SAC Capital Advisors, Steven Cohen, Insider Trading, The New York Times
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In Ukraine, no way to avoid a bumpy ride
Reuters* Ukraine's potholed roads sign of economic, political woes * Raising taxes is politically risky * Voters believe many funds are misspent * Energy and other utilities have similar problems By Olzhas Auyezov KIEV, May 21 (Reuters) - As the snow and...Tags: Politics, Yulia Tymoshenko, Economy, Business and Finance, Elections, Finance
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Congress, the tea party and the IRS: Sentence first, then the trial
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama fired the head of the Internal Revenue Service, the first sacrificial lamb brought down after the alleged "targeting" of conservative political groups by the IRS. Mr. Obama declared, "Americans are right to be angry...
Tags: Politics, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Barack Obama, Tea Party Movement, Taxation
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State workers ready to untangle Memorial Day traffic snarls
On Memorial Day weekends, Kim Yates and Albert Kullman measure success by speed. Yates steers her bright yellow tow truck toward trouble, with the goal of getting disabled vehicles out of the roadway or back in business before traffic has time to clog....
Tags: Holiday Vacations, Highway Transportation, Traffic, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Supreme Court upholds FCC power in cellphone tower case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's two leading conservatives staked out opposite stands Monday over whether judges should play a greater role in second-guessing regulations issued by "unelected bureaucrats" in federal agencies. The divide arose when...
Tags: Politics, Natural Resources Defense Council, U.S. Congress, Federal Communications Commission, Justice System
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Yahoo's challenge to be building Tumblr's advertising business
SAN FRANCISCO — To punctuate his company's $1.1-billion purchase by Yahoo Inc., Tumblr co-founder and Chief Executive David Karp let loose in a blog post with a celebratory expletive. It was classic Karp, a 26-year-old high school dropout who...
Tags: Rentals, Marissa Mayer, Companies and Corporations, Social Sciences, Arts and Culture
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Mergers rare among startups and venture capitalists
The typical venture capital success story goes like this: Investor backs startup. Startup grows rapidly and either goes public, gets acquired or licenses its technology. Investor collects a healthy return. GrubHub and Seamless' plan to merge their...Tags: Restructuring and Recapitalization, Companies and Corporations, Financing and Stock Offerings, Business, University of New Hampshire
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Red Line rides out first weekday of construction project
Commuting on the South Side changed fundamentally Monday. Yet at the same time, nothing changed. CTA Red Line trains were absent from the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway for the first weekday since the south branch opened almost 44 years ago, except...
Tags: Metra, Chicago Transit Authority, Criminals, Twitter, Inc., Forrest Claypool
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Is Yahoo's billion-dollar bet on synergy worth it?
When Google went public in 2004 for $85 a share, I wrote a column questioning such a high valuation for a company built on a math equation. Wasn't it inevitable that someone would come along with a better search algorithm? Google closed Monday at $908....
Tags: Marissa Mayer, AOL LLC, YouTube, Social Media, Microsoft Corporation
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