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Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet pioneer that had fallen behind the times. The deal announced Monday is Mayer's boldest move since she left...
Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Computer Networking and Internet, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Twitter, Inc.
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Boynton to discuss televising city meetings
The Boynton Beach commission could soon be coming to a TV screen near you, if one commissioner gets his way. Commissioner David Merker, a former radio broadcaster, wants to televise the city's meetings. He mentioned it during his campaign, and he...
Tags: Boynton Beach
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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: Computer Networking and Internet, Culture, Online Advertising, AMC (tv network), Media Industry
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Britain: Horror attraction combines dark ride with haunted maze
A unique new haunted attraction opening this summer at a small United Kingdom theme park will combine a walk-through horror maze featuring live actors with a dark ride journey inside an abandoned mine shaft. The Hobs Pit maze and ride is set to open...
Tags: Gardens and Parks, Travel, Media Industry, Disneyland Park, Celebrities
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Online scam alarms computer experts
The Raleigh (N.C.) News & ObserverIt takes a lot to surprise the group of go-to geeks I frequently contact for this column. Paul Rosenberg, for example, has experienced plenty of computer issues as the owner of the repair shop Love Your Computer in Chapel Hill, N.C. But when he...Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Networking, Science and Technology, Engineering, Software Industry
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Record python killed in South Florida
A record-setting Burmese python was killed with a knife in a rural section of southern Miami-Dade County, after a long struggle in which it wrapped itself around a man's legs. The monster snake was 18 feet, eight inches long, beating the previous...
Tags: Science and Technology, Conservation, Florida International University, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Endangered Species
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Tulsa Golden Hurricanes are a team that will surprise in 2013
Orlando SentinelTulsa is coming off an 11-win season, which was the fourth time in the past six seasons that the Golden Hurricanes have won 10-plus games. The team’s appearance in the Liberty Bowl was its seventh bowl game in the past eight seasons. The Golden...Tags: Football, College Sports, Liberty Bowl, Colorado State Rams, Tulsa Golden Hurricane
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10 things you should know about pie (it has to look messy to taste good)
Yesterday afternoon I served as a pie judge for an apple pie contest that was part of Amy Rowat’s undergraduate science-and-food class at UCLA, a bake-off that was equal parts cooking contest and science fair. Each team of contestants was charged...
Tags: Judges, Apples, Pies and Tarts, Apple Pie, Justice System
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Yahoo seeks turnaround with $1.1-billion deal to buy Tumblr
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is attempting a bold — and risky — strategy to turn around the struggling Internet giant with the $1.1-billion acquisition of Tumblr, a trendy social blogging service popular...
Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Microsoft Corporation, Online Advertising, Business, Computer Hardware
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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, Social Media, Microsoft Corporation, Marketing, Media Industry
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Apple tries not to stand out in the tax-avoidance crowd
Apple found itself in the uncomfortable position Monday of being labeled a corporate bad guy, drawing fire from senior senators in both parties for using subsidiaries in Ireland to reduce its tax bill. But if Apple has its way, its bitter rival Google...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Congress, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Yahoo! anuncia la compra de Tumblr y promete "no fastidiarla"
Nueva York, 20 may (EFE).- El portal de internet Yahoo! anunció hoy oficialmente la compra de la página de microblogs Tumblr y, en un guiño al lenguaje informal de los usuarios de su nueva adquisición, prometió "no fastidiarla". En un comunicado...Tags: Marissa Mayer, Social Media
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