Tag Archives : Marissa Mayer

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yahoo.com is starting to roll out a new front page, the redesigned homepage was announced in a blog post  by Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer. The new look has been described as being ‘more intuitive and personal’. Yahoo expects to roll out this revamped homepage in the US over the next few days. The UK availability has not been yet announced. “The new Yahoo experience works well [...]

Yahoo launched a new version of Yahoo Mail, making the popular email service faster and cleaner, with a consistent look across all devices. The new version was announced by Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer in a blog post, will be available on all major platforms, it includes an updated web Mail version and new apps for  Windows 8, iPhone and Android. “You’ve told us loud and clear that [...]

Customized Google page Google which gained its initial fame for its search, always had a simple and basic search page unlike personalization features which are available for iGoogle, Gmail and others, Google has changed that and has added more Bing ( oops bling) and color to its Search page by giving the option of adding a image to the background. Users can now choose any photo or image and add it [...]