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Tumblr got more than its share of attention this week, but, Yahoo did not forget Flickr, another beloved start-up when Yahoo purchased it eight years ago.  Yahoo has announced a new remodel to Flickr that puts more emphasis on the photographs plus Flickr users now get1 terabyte of space without shelling a dime. “At Flickr, we believe you should share all your images in full resolution, so life’s [...]

Tumblr is famously known for animated gifs and nsfw posts, since Yahoo’s acquisition rumours started last week, analysts have been predicting user discontent and crackdown on nasty posts.  Even before the news became official on Monday, 72,000 users migrated from Tumblr to WordPress according to WordPress’s founder Matt Mullenweg’s blog post. Here’s his post: It now looks pretty certain [...]

The worst kept tech secret of last week is true – Microblogging website Tumblr is being acquired by Yahoo. Marissa Mayer announced the deal today morning along with a “promise not to screw it up.” Yohoo! is coughing $1.1 billion for Tumblr, “substantially all of which is payable in cash,” Yahoo said. Yahoo is not absorbing its acquisition, Tumblr is going to run separately [...]

Yahoo’s  board has just given nod to Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer’s plans to acquire publishing platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion on Sunday according to reports by AllthingsD. Tumblr acquisition  will be Yahoos biggest acquisition and the fourth biggest overall. As first reported by AllthingsD  last week, Yahoo is all set to buy out Tumblr, and the amount of cash to change hands was [...]

YouTube  one of the most visited website in the world turns eight years old today, YouTube was  launched back in 2005 and were among the first website to offer streaming video, Google marked YouTube’s eight year anniversary by sharing the statistic that it is now seeing more than 100 hours of video uploaded every minute. “Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every [...]

Samsung Galaxy phone lineup’s latest entrant, Galaxy S4 is on track to selling 10 million handsets in its first month according to the  The Korea Times who quoted Samsung’s co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun. “It is selling much faster than the previous model S3 … Samsung spent 50 days to pass the 10 million sales mark for the S3. The S4 will be Samsung’s first ’10 million [...]

Yahoo is organizing a press event in New York on Monday, May 20th  which will be addressed by CEO Marissa Mayer according to CNBC, the event will be “product-related,”  which is rumoured to be about Yahoo’s Tumblr acquisition. Tumblr has been in news this week, on Thursday All Things D reported that Yahoo might buy Tumblr for a price close to $1 billion.Then, GigaOm reported that Facebook [...]

At Google I/O, Google unveiled a major new unified messaging service for iOS and Android called Hangouts. Hangouts is a cross platform service that will replace Google Talk, Google+ Messenger  and the Google+ video chat. Earlier it was rumored to be called Babel, but Google announced it as Hangouts. Google Hangouts will allow the sharing of photos, emoji, and video calls, together with traditional [...]

Couple of weeks ago  Apple said that it was close to reaching 50 billion downloads mark in it App Store, today they have crossed the threshold of 50 billion downloads. Apple’s App Store was launched  five years ago in July 2008. The App Store reached the 10 billionth download in January of 2011, followed by 25 billion in March 2012.In just over a year since its 25 billion milestone, Apple’s [...]

Google is unhappy with the version 3.0 official YouTube app for Windows Phone which was released last week.  Google reportedly sent Microsoft a cease and desist letter today, which The Verge has reported, the lack of ads on the YouTube app for Windows Phone seems to be the primary complaint. Google has asked Microsoft to “immediately withdraw this application from the Windows Phone Store and [...]