Business & Tech Verizon Is Selling Off Tumblr To SF-Based Owners of Wordpress Tumblr is changing hands once more, and Yahoo parent company Verizon is reportedly offloading it for less than one percent of what Yahoo paid for the company in 2013.
SF News Tumblr To Put Ads On All Users' Blogs Starting Tomorrow It appears it's time to pay the Seapunk piper. In a move that is sure to upset its diehard fan base, TechCrunch reports that as of tomorrow social blogging site Tumblr will place
Arts & Entertainment 'Business Town!' Is Richard Scarry 2.0 For Silicon Valley Business Town! is a brilliant, if derivative, Tumblr you should totally follow. Obviously, the style is all Richard Scarry, the illustrator whose most popular work, Busy Town, featured anthropomorphic animals in workaday jobs.
SF News Yahoo Announces Plan To 'Make Flickr Awesome Again' At a pun-filled press conference in Manhattan this afternoon, Marissa Mayer brushed aside this weekend's big acquisition to focus on Yahoo's other brand that "dropped the e." After a quick pat on the
SF News Yahoo Officially Announces $1.1 Billion Tumblr Acquisition, "Promises Not To Screw It Up" Hey, everyone, now that Yahoo is going to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has a Tumblr blog. She wrote this morning, "I’m delighted to announce
SF News Yahoo Will Buy 'Hipster Blogging Platform' Tumblr For $1.1 Billion [Update] UPDATE: Yep, it's official. Guess there will be big news at Yahoo's Monday product event in New York: The Wall Street Journal reports, "The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Academic Tim Gunn Today we have an amusing little slideshow for you to cleanse that internet palate with this afternoon. It's a Tumblr thingy, actually, called Academic Tim Gunn. They take images of the great Project
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Tumblr Highlights People Who Wait In Line Being seen waiting in line at, say, Mission Chinese Food, is part if not most of the fun of going out. It's San Francisco's latest boosterism quirky fad. And it's quite gross, really,
SF News Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via Mission Mission editor Allan Hough: "Okay, I can't do this. Going for a bike ride. Somebody call me when Tumblr is back on its feet."(If you haven't heard, the microblogging service
