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Yahoo's board of directors will decide on an all-cash offer for the hip blogging site this weekend, All Things D reports. [Read more]

Yahoo is on the brink of acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, according to a new report. All Things D , which first broke the news that a deal was in the works , says Tumblr's board will meet on Sunday to consider an all-cash offer for the popular blogging platform. The deal would be Yahoo...

Earlier today, Yahoo sent press invites to a "product-related" event in New York City Monday afternoon and there are already two separate rumors about the company's plans. The first, from Bloomberg , concerns the event specifically and cites a "person familiar with the matter" reporting we'll hear...

According to sources close to the situation, the Yahoo board plans to meet Sunday night to decide whether to approve a $1.1 billion all-cash offer for New York-based blogging site Tumblr. As AllThingsD.com first reported yesterday , Yahoo has been mulling some kind of deal with the hip New...

Tesla Motors Inc. just raised about $1 billion in new capital, riding a remarkable burst of investor exuberance. New Tesla shareholders will now get to see just how fast the auto business gobbles up money. After it pays off a $452.4 million federal loan, Tesla says in a filing today, it will have...

Apple CEO Tim Cook. lemagit Unlike his predecessor, Apple CEO Tim Cook doesn't appear reluctant to face down a Senate subcommittee: he's due to appear in Washington DC next week to testify at a Senate hearing on offshore profit shifting , and he plans to directly address the concerns Congress is...

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008. Apple Inc. said Thursday that the 50 billionth download was a game called “Say the Same Thing” by Space Inch. The App Store had 500 apps when it first...

With Google owning Blogspot, what does Yahoo plan to do? Well according to the rumors, word on the street has it that Yahoo might be looking to acquire Tumblr, which for the uninitiated, offers a similar blogging-style platform like Blogspot, [...] Like It , +1 , Tweet It , Pin It Original content...

It seems a $US1 billion is the going rate for successful social media platforms these days. A year after Facebook dropped a cool billion acquiring photo sharing service Instagram , rumours are swirling that Yahoo wants to spend the same amount to purchase blogging platform Tumblr. Initially broken...

It seems a $1 billion is the going rate for successful social media platforms these days. A year after Facebook dropped a cool billion acquiring photo sharing service Instagram , rumours are swirling that Yahoo wants to spend the same amount to purchase blogging platform Tumblr. Initially broken by...