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Biz Break: Tesla promises profits, Yahoo hones homepage, Wall Street dives

Source: Inside Bay Area, Feb 20 2013, 6:30pm CST

Tesla's earnings report showed failures at the end of 2012. The company lost $90 million, or 79 cents a share, on revenues of $306 million in the final quarter of last year. While those numbers were an improvement on the same quarter in 2011, whe ...

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That Time Marissa Mayer Stormed Out Of A Meeting After A Blogging Acquisition (YHOO)

Source: Silicon Alley Insider  |   May 21 2013, 7:34am CDT

The source of his skepticism is a meeting he had with Mayer back in 2003. Winer and his blogger friends were worried that Google would suddenly start favoring blogs hosted on Blogger in Google search results. Winer says Googl ...

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Yahoo's challenge to be building Tumblr's advertising business

Source: Los Angeles Times  |   May 21 2013, 7:10am CDT

It was classic Karp, a 26-year-old high school dropout who built one of the Web's most popular outlets for personal expression. It was also a clever way to send a message to Tumblr users: It may have been bought o ...

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"One of the things that people really want to do is share their interests with their friends ... We need to have sharing built as a fundamental component."


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GOOGLE-YOUTUBE VETERAN: OK, Marissa Mayer, Here's How To Not Screw Up Tumblr (GOOG, YHOO)

Source: Silicon Alley Insider  |   May 21 2013, 7:06am CDT

Wall Street analysts and Yahoo shareholders are worried that Yahoo is going to screw up Tumblr, its $1.1 billion acquisition. They are worried because Yahoo, and big Internet companies in general, have a history of paying a lot for startups ...

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Yahoo makes bold but risky move in buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion

Source: The Valley Dispatch | Dracut, MA  |   May 21 2013, 6:57am CDT

Tumblr blogger whose screen name can't be printed in a family newspaper. Logos of the brands Tumblr and Yahoo! SUNNYVALE -- Yahoo's pricey $1.1 billion purchase of the trendy social blogging site Tumblr is both a bold and risky mov ...

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Yahoo moving HQ to ex-NYT office

Source: Gulfnews  |   May 21 2013, 6:53am CDT

New York: New media is replacing old in Times Square. Yahoo, the giant web company that agreed on Sunday to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion (Dh4 billion), is moving its New York headquarters to the former home ...

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Flickr: The ghost that haunts Yahoo

Source: Fortune  |   May 21 2013, 6:48am CDT

By Verne Kopytoff FORTUNE -- Flickr, the online photo sharing service, seemed to be heading for the big-time when Yahoo acquired it eight years ago. The site already had a lot going for it: Legions of devoted users, ...

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Flikr unveils new redesign as Marissa Mayer promises the site will be 'awesome again'

Source: The Independent  |   May 21 2013, 6:42am CDT

Yahoo has announced a major redesign of photography website Flickr. Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, said the redesign includes a new interface based around high-resolution photographs and a terabyte of storage for each user, ...

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Tumblr deal by Marissa Mayer overshadows Flickr changes by Yahoo

Source: WLS  |   May 21 2013, 6:10am CDT

Tumblr's audience, which boasts a large concentration of teens and people in their early 20s, is already fretting that the service is going to become more stodgy and commercial under the ownership of an 18-year-old co ...

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Yahoo hopes Tumblr buy will help it get hip

Source: V3.co.uk  |   May 21 2013, 5:55am CDT

Shortly after the merger deal was confirmed, analysts weighed in on the billion-dollar deal, which was the largest of Marissa Mayer's term atop Yahoo since she joined the company in the summer of last year. Greg Sterling, senior ...

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