Yahoo! has agreed a deal to acquire blogging and media sharing platform Tumblr for approximately $1.1 billion (£724 million).
Tumblr will continue to operate as a separate business with David Karp as CEO.
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Yahoo! has acquired mobile to-do list and task manager Astrid.
The long-term future of the acclaimed app now appears to be uncertain, with Astrid saying it will continue to work for the next 90 days. However, chargeable subscriptions are no longer being accepted and refunds for existing users are being prepared.
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Podcast - 27th March 2013
Today's edition of The Fonecast takes a look at the top mobile-related news stories from the past week, including the new Google Keep app, Apple's mapping acquisition and Facebook's VoIP service.
We also cover the BlackBerry World application store, a new UK 4G survey from eBay, in-car connectivity and the recent Yahoo! purchase of Summly.
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Retailing, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Applications, Podcasts
Tags: podcast, google, android, apple, ios, facebook, voip, data, research, oracle, yahoo, location
Google employee no.20 becomes the new number 1 at Yahoo!
Mark Bridge writes:
Internet veteran Yahoo! provided last week’s biggest news, at least in terms of press coverage. It appointed Marissa Mayer as its President and Chief Executive Officer, having enticed her away from Google after 13 years.
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Tags: opinion, yahoo, google, ofcom, uk, research, o2, vodafone, microsoft, motorola, ebay, paypal, payments, nokia, gsma, Wholesale Application Community
Podcast - 18th July 2012
It's a good week for Yahoo! as it appoints Marissa Mayer - previously Google employee number 20 - to the role of CEO. However, things aren't as cheery at Research In Motion, which has been ordered to pay over $147 million in a patent case.
Meanwhile O2 UK is recovering from a network problem that left around a third of its customers disconnected for almost a day.
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Tags: podcast, google, yahoo, o2, uk, rim, blackberry, legal, ireland, three, vodafone, research, brightstar, europe, user interface
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