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 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 promote social anxiety in 500 U.S. cities by eliminating the traumatic element of "human verbal interaction" from pizza delivery. The co-founder and CEO of GrubHub will serve as the CEO of the new Sterling Cooper Draper Seamless Grubhub. The CEO of Seamless will serve as president. If your cat dies, the new organization will probably start a twitter fight with you about it.
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…
It's Officially Official: Yahoo Will Own Tumblr (Officially)
How many times can you confirm a piece of news? One more time! Yahoo's Marissa Mayer just announced the $1.1 billion deal
It's (Mostly) Official: Yahoo Buying Tumblr Youth Serum for $1.1B
Cash! The WSJ says "the Yahoo board has approved a deal" to make this happen, and it's hard to imagine Tumblr turning this down. One of the most unpopular
Yahoo's Announcing Something on Monday
Who knows what Marissa Mayer will reveal once her mic is turned on. But the timing is sure terrific
Tumblr: Still Full of Porn, Self-Mutilation, and Eating Disorders
Two years ago, Tumblr's overabundance of porn was well-documented
