Well, what I reported on Saturday has happened. It’s so big even mainstream media has covered it. Yahoo has purchased Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. Yahoo has already integrated their blog into the Tumblr blog. Tumblr CEO David Carp is obviously excited, but due to the F-bombs in his statement, I won’t detail how excited. [...]
Yahoo might do it again. In a year that has seen great growth and comeback for them, there is a plan for Yahoo to purchase Tumblr. Tomorrow, there’s a meeting to debate buying Tumblr for over a billion dollars in cash. This hip youth-oriented blog site has been under Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s eye for [...]
Here are some historic company rivalries for you: Coke vs. Pepsi, McDonalds vs. Burger King, All State vs. State Farm, Exxon Mobile vs. BP. Can we add Google vs. Microsoft to this list? This isn’t the first time Google and Microsoft have butted heads, and it probably won’t be the last. One time, Google sued [...]
Later this week, Google is holding a conference for the ages. I’m no fortune teller, so I can’t predict what they’re going to say. But here are a few expectations, and they are high! One is a new updates for their Android system. There’s a lot of talk of the 5.0 Key Lime, but don’t get [...]
Facebook is now very much in the mobile race. In recent months they’ve released Facebook Home, an Android based service that makes sure you’re never Facebook-free. If you’ve read my earlier blogs, you know how I feel about that one. But FB isn’t stopping there. Facebook is now partnering with Waze, an Israel based traffic [...]