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Why Tumblr Won’t Move Yahoo’s Needle

When Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer announced that the Internet giant would spend $1.1 billion to acquire blogging site Tumblr, she promised not to “screw it up.” Maybe the young chief should have instead emphasized what the six-year-old fledging startup can do for Yahoo.

Yet Another Hulu Bidder! Yahoo Is In, Too.

Add one more name to the Hulu bidding derby: Yahoo, which just announced plans to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion, has made an offer on the video website.
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Viral Video: More Google Glass Photographer Spoofing (The Gift That Keeps on Giving)

Don’t try this at home (or anywhere, really)!
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That Social Media Show

For lack of a better verb, I think the media kind of fucked it up.

– Ashton Kutcher’s current view of Twitter

Apple’s Newest iPhone Ad Still Says Nothing, Is a Little Less Great

Same song, new verse. But not quite as much fun this time.
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Tremor Video Files for IPO

The video ad network has been looking to go public for a long time. More video IPOs likely this year.
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Draw Something From This: Yahoo’s Design Chief Tim Parsey to Depart

After stabilizing the design culture at Yahoo amid much turmoil, the well-known user experience exec leaves the sketchbook to CEO Mayer.
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Hearst Taps Demand Media’s Bradford and Yucaipa’s Johnson to “Redefine” the San Francisco Chronicle

Can the City by the Bay finally get the newspaper it deserves?
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Netflix Still Says “House of Cards” Did Great, but Still Won’t Talk Ratings

It would be pretty amazing if the company said its first original show did as well as “The Walking Dead.” But Netflix says it didn’t say that.
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Another VC Is Born: Well-Known Internet Exec Ben Ling Joins Khosla Ventures

The former Google, Facebook and Badoo exec is the second high-profile Silicon Valley operating exec the VC firm has hired of late.
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