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Tumblr Grows To Nearly 170 Million Monthly Visitors, Up 50 Million From January
According to data from web measurement firm Quantcast, Tumblr’s getting ready to wrap up a year of major traffic growth. A Tumblr blog post is claiming that the site is now one of the top ten...
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Four Big Questions And Predictions For Social Media In 2013
Social media, as we know it today, has not been around for very long. Both Facebook and Twitter came into being less than decade ago and really only gained public consciousness over the past five...
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Business Insider: The 12 Coolest Startup Offices We’ve Ever Seen
Here at Business Insider, we go on a lot of office tours. Only a handful have blown us away. From sprawling roof decks to skeeball, check out 15 spectacularly decorated startups. We’ve been to them all...
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Pulse Gets More Personal, Lets Users Add Their Facebook, YouTube, Instagram,...
Pulse, the popular news-reading app for the web and mobile, just announced that it is going beyond the standard news sources it currently features and adding authenticated personal social feeds from...
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Tumblr: David Karp’s $800 Million Art Project
David Karp is in the midst of a rite of passage that seems universal for the young tycoons of the Internet’s social era: He’s buying himself a proper swank pad. And like Mark Zuckerberg‘s luxe but...
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Yahoo Reportedly Moving Forward With Tumblr Acquisition As Its Board Mulls...
According to Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka of AllThingsD, Yahoo’s board will meet in two days time on Sunday to vote to approve a $1.1 billion cash offer for Tumblr, the popular blogging service and...
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Yahoo Buys Tumblr And Promises ‘Not to Screw It Up’
You already know all the details, but here’s the official word from Yahoo on its $1.1 billion Tumblr deal. Note the touches of Tumblr-like whimsy in the release, and Yahoo’s tacit acknowledgment that...
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‘Tumblr Is David, And David Is Tumblr:’ The Man Behind Yahoo’s New Blogging...
At age 20, high-school dropout and startup industry veteran David Karp co-founded Tumblr, the now six-year-old blogging platform that was just bought by Yahoo for $1.1 billion. But who is he? The New...
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Why Tumblr Was A Massive Steal For Yahoo
The blockbuster acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo for $1.1 billion— all cash — has been portrayed as a gigantic gamble on the part of the acquirer. However, for those of us who believe there can be...
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NY Startup Guy Marco Arment Has Had 3 Companies Sell In The Past 5 Weeks
Few people have time to work on one startup, let alone three. Marco Arment, a New York-based coder, designer, blogger and entrepreneur, just participated in three startup exits in the past five weeks....
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The Slowdown In VC Deals And Valuations Shows Not Every Startup Is A Tumblr
These are hard times for venture capital firms. Fundraising for US-based VCs fell to its lowest period in about two years in the second quarter, dropping to $2.88 billion. That’s a 54% drop from the...
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How Porn Lost The Internet
“The internet is for porn” is a strange sort of conventional wisdom in that it’s never quite been true. The internet has hosted porn for as long as it’s hosted images, and it’s made viewing porn both...
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