The joke now is what’s the first tech company that we acquire. I hear AOL’s going pretty cheap.
– David Karp, founder of Tumblr, to the Guardian’s Josh Halliday
Liz Gannes in Social on January 26 at 2:29 pm PT
Though Internet companies seemed to have found their political voices during the U.S. SOPA/PIPA debate over Internet piracy last week, they’re less up in arms about another proposed bill.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 23 at 12:41 am PT
The average post on Tumblr is reblogged nine times, according to founder and CEO David Karp.
Peter Kafka in News on January 17 at 4:30 am PT
Charlie O’Donnell leaves First Round Capital and sets up shop across the bridge. (Don’t worry, he’ll stray out of King’s County, too.)
Drake Martinet in Social on January 6 at 10:05 am PT
Scribr is trying to keep your Facebook profile from becoming like the lost GeoCities of Atlantis.
Kara Swisher in News on December 29, 2011 at 12:22 pm PT
The move to beef up communications expertise at the prominent Silicon Valley venture firm continues.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 15, 2011 at 11:43 am PT
Tumblr, the fast-growing blogging social network, goes down a lot. How much? It had 42 hours of downtime in 2011, by far the most among major blogging hosts, according to Pingdom.
Lauren Goode in Social on December 15, 2011 at 8:06 am PT
Foursquare is still the cool kid at the check-in party, especially as more competitors are checking out. But is the party dying down?
Liz Gannes in Social on December 5, 2011 at 11:03 am PT
Andrew McLaughlin, who led global public policy at Google for five years and was deputy CTO in the Obama administration, joined Tumblr today as executive vice president.
Liz Gannes in Social on October 27, 2011 at 9:03 am PT
Founder Ramy Adeeb, an Egyptian living in San Francisco, built Snip.it’s bookmarking tool after experiencing his home country’s revolution earlier this year from afar.
