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...Founded in 2007 by then 20-year-old New Yorker David Karp, Tumblr was promoted as a place of creativity. In a 2011 interview with Inc. magazine Karp seems remarkably balanced....
...It sold blogging site Tumblr in 2019 and HuffPost to BuzzFeed late last year. The deal with Apollo will allow it to focus on its core phone and internet business....
...Microblogging site Tumblr hired a “fashion evangelist” in 2012 — the same year Jeff Barr became “chief evangelist” of Amazon’s AWS....
...Verizon wrote off the value of its media assets — comprising properties such as Tumblr, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Yahoo Sports — by almost $5bn and, having tried to sell it repeatedly, finally...
...But while some of her initiatives generated positive reviews, and she took Yahoo into social media with the acquisition of Tumblr, none achieved the scale or momentum to match the company’s main rivals....
...Thousands of jobs were cut and assets including Tumblr and The Huffington Post have been sold, the latter in exchange for a minority stake in BuzzFeed rather than any cash — and, according to its latest...
...Which brings us nicely to this news from Monday evening, via Axios: Verizon is set to sell the social network Tumblr to Automattic Inc, the owner of online publishing tool WordPress....
...Instead, Tumblr went largely ignored as bigger problems took hold. After missing Yahoo-set advertising targets in 2016, Tumblr was written down by $230m in one quarter and $482m the next....
...Last month Verizon sold Tumblr for a reported “nominal” amount, after buying the social network for $1.1bn in 2013....
...Oath owns a trove of media and technology properties including the Huffington Post and Tumblr. In the past year Verizon has sold some of these brands, including Moviefone and Flickr....
...It also brought media assets including Tumblr, The Huffington Post and Yahoo Sports into Verizon’s business. Yet progress has been slow....
...LinkedIn and Tumblr then revealed big breaches of their own, before Yahoo announced that at least 500m users had been hacked....
...Compassion Inc: Unleashing the Power of Empathy in Life and Business, by Gaurav Sinha Reading this book will make you feel a bit better about the world and your business, even before putting Sinha’s ideas...
...— Tumblr led the net-neutrality fight—then Verizon bought it. — Textbook co-authored by Roy Moore in 2011 says women shouldn’t run for office....
...Political discussions are mostly restricted to Tumblr and Twitter. The London teen identifies with the Liberal Democrats....
...Yahoo properties including its email service*, Yahoo Finance and Tumblr will be combined with AOL, which Verizon bought in 2015....
...Yahoo properties including its email service, Yahoo Finance and Tumblr will be combined with AOL, which Verizon bought in 2015, into a new corporate entity called Oath....
...Many briefly hyped rivals that were launched earlier in this decade, such as Path, Picplz, DailyBooth and even Tumblr, have seen their fortunes wane or disappeared completely....
...But Oath was panned on social media, with Twitter users comparing the name to the widely mocked rebrand last year of Tribune Publishing to “tronc, Inc”....
...It’s important to me to see Yahoo into its next chapter,” she wrote to employees on her Tumblr blog just after the Verizon deal was announced....
...How Yahoo derailed Tumblr Marissa Mayer bought the blogging site for $1bn and promised “not to screw it up”....
...In a post published on the company’s Tumblr page following Verizon’s confirmation that it is buying Yahoo’s core internet operations for $4.83bn in cash, Ms Mayer said: For me personally, I’m planning to...
...InfoArmor, an Arizona-based company, claims to have found the data dump from the Yahoo attack and linked it to a group of cyber criminals that it says were also responsible for past cyber attacks on LinkedIn, Tumblr...
...Revenue from these areas dropped in the second quarter and Yahoo was forced to take a further writedown on Ms Mayer’s largest acquisition, the $1bn for blogging site Tumblr....
...The $1.1bn acquisition of picture website Tumblr in 2013 has just been written down to less than $400m. It is a lesson Yahoo’s acquirer, Verizon, would be wise to acknowledge....
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