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The rumors were true after all. Yahoo’s board has approved a deal to buy blogging service Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion in cash, according to the Wall Street Journal. The deal that would see Tumblr continue to operate as an independent business could be officially announced as early as Monday. Rumors that Yahoo was…
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Screw tumbloo!, fund stack and avoid the corporate takeover!
stackfm: We can make better tools than tumblr, facebook, google+ and even twitter. Our system is designed to open source and decentralize over time, not sell out to the highest bidder.
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From Web to Native: A Journey in Interface Design — Design/UX — Medium
From Web to Native: A Journey in Interface Design — Design/UX — Medium
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The Wall Street Journal is now reporting via Twitter that the rumored $1.1 billion cash acquisition deal for social blogging site Tumblr has been approved by Yahoo’s board of directors. The Tumblr acquisition was rumored last week, with a price tag reportedly north of $1 billion, which appears to be accurate if the WSJ’s sources…
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Tumblr’s users are almost universally unhappy with the news that the site might get sold to Yahoo. Hell No, Tumblr Users Won’t Go To Yahoo! · By INGRID LUNDEN/techcrunch.com (via sniffed)
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stoweboyd: “Can Karp put on the big-boy pants, hire a Sheryl Sandberg character, and create a money-making machine? Because if he’s not sure, and he’s not ready for a long, hard, uphill fight, he should sell.” — Alexia Tsotsis, David Karp’s Dilemma tumbln about tumblr shares and diffuses my anxiety
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dbreunig: “Sailors move an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush” (via Navy News Service) wrapped like a work by Christo
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What are Art School for . . . Today?
What are Art School for . . . Today? notational: WHAT ARE ART SCHOOLS FOR … TODAY? Art education today bears the fruit of seeds planted in the 1960s. We see it in the wide-ranging creativity of art students, even as we observe the reactionary response of institutions, which since the Thatcher years have become…
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emergentfutures: Stowe Boyd: No, We Should Not Protest The Yahoo Tumblr Acquisition Paul Higgins : Good points Stowe although I am less optimistic than you sound about Yahoo and what it can do. I am also a little sad to think that the only alternative for Tumblr is to be bought out by a big…
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No, We Should Not Protest The Yahoo Tumblr Acquisition
stoweboyd: Paul Higgins wonders if we should oppose the Tumblr acquisition by Yahoo: Paul Higgins, The Community, Tumblr and Yahoo – Do we Protest? There are a couple of services that are really important to my life and my business. One of them is Tumblr and the other is Evernote. In promoting Evernote for example I…