Insecure code-slinger Marco Arment was an original employee at Tumblr, when it was just two dudes in a room. He wrote a nostalgic little post yesterday about the company's rise to Yahoo's pocketbook, with one important conclusion: he's rich
Airbnb Is Illegal in New York City
The world's most popular room-renting service is now illegal in the largest city in the United States, CNET reports. This could be a setback.
Tonight's Yahoo Event Was About Making Flickr 'Awesome Again'
From what I can gather from the not-really-streaming livestream, the presenters had come to praise Flickr, not to bury it.
With Cash Running Out, Tumblr Already Planned on Showing In-Stream Ads
Business Insider got its hands on a pitch deck from Tumblr that promises brands will be "front and center" through in-stream ads that look like normal posts, as opposed to David Karp's insistence on restricting ads to only the "Radar" and "Spotlight" sections of the platform. But upset otherkins don't have Yahoo to blame.
Despite all the excited shouting, there's nothing particularly cheerful about Yahoo's maternal adoption
One reason there aren't enough H-1B visas for foreign software engineers? They have to compete with fashion models. Bloomberg says models are twice as likely to get their visas as programmers—proving that no matter where you're from, life is just like high school.
Seamless Made Fun of My Dead Cat and Now It's Merging with GrubHub
Seamless and GrubHub, two nearly identical online food-ordering companies whose business model consists of providing a service that is already available for free, announced Monday that they would be merging into one giant online food-ordering hydra. The new company, which has not yet settled on a name, will enable and…
Source: Tumblr Made Even Less Money Than Reported Last Year
As Yahoo and Tumblr remembered the nineties by negotiating their deal in the press, almost every acquisition report quoted the same figure, first reported by Forbes in January: Tumblr made $13 million in revenue in 2012, with the "hope" that it would get to $100 million in 2013. But a source familiar with the company…
