Yahoo! Officially Acquires Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

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Rumored for some time now, the speculation surrounding the Yahoo!/Tumblr relationship has finally culminated today in an official $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo!. In an officially tongue-in-cheek press release, Yahoo! professed that its...

Rumors Point a $1 Billion Deal Between Yahoo! and Tumblr

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Yahoo! are trying their darnedest to attract the attention of the 18-24 demographic with the apparent bid to buy Tumblr. Under the direction of CEO Marissa Mayer, the power move would go for the now arbitrary tech acquisition amount of $1 billion USD...

Google Street Scene Highlights Street Views of Cinema Classics

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Recently making its debut on tumblr’s increasingly accessible blogging platform is Google Street Scene. Creatively making use of Street View from Google Maps, the site has highlighted scenes from the likes of The Godfather, No Country for Old M...

Trapped in the Tumblr Closet with Fuck Yeah Menswear

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The landscape of men’s fashion over the past couple of years has drastically changed. With the #menswear movement so heavily facilitated by everyone’s favorite time vacuum, Tumblr, the rate of information available on men’s fashion...

Tumblr to Present “Moving the Still: A Festival of GIFS” @ Art Basel Miami Beach

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With the recent explosion of Tumblr and its highly-visual form of interaction, perhaps no other image format has benefitted as much as the GIF. Much maligned in the past, the animated form will be celebrated both online and physically by Tumblr as &#...

STORYBOARD: Brick House: Lego Legend Sean Kenney

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Not many people have the opportunity to look back and reminisce, or even partake in, childhood activities, but Sean Kenney – a Lego Certified Professional – just so happens to be one of those people. One of only 13 people in the world to...

The Rumble Around Tumblr

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Thomas J. Watson, the historic president of IBM and namesake of the company’s latest, borderline-Orwellian artificial intelligence program, once said: “design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must...