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With New Mobile App, Nextdoor Unveils Its Take on the Neighborhood Watch
— Think of what you're used to in a local neighborhood-watch group: Signs posted around a community with contact information, perhaps monthly meetings to discuss safety issues and concerns.
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Yahoo Acquires Gaming Platform Startup PlayerScale
— Another day, another acquisition by Yahoo. — Today Yahoo is announcing it's acquired PlayerScale, a California-based startup that makes software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming. Financial details haven't been disclosed …
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France Tel to invest up to 50 million euro in Dailymotion: report
— (Reuters) - France Telecom plans to invest between 30 and 50 million euros ($64 million) in its video-sharing website Dailymotion and begin a fresh search for a partner in the autumn, its chief executive said on Tuesday.
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Hazards of the Buzzy Startup in Light of Tumblr Buy
— Yahoo's Purchase of Tumblr Puts Spotlight on Highfliers Like Pinterest, Quora With Little Revenue — Yahoo Inc.'s $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr Inc. is a fairy-tale ending for the blogging site, which fetched a rich price despite its meager revenue.
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The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars
— It's being reported Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. You may recall Instagram was profiled on HighScalability and they were also bought by Facebook for a ton of money. A coincidence? You be the judge. — Just what is Yahoo buying?
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Yahoo Drops Flickr Pro To Compete With Facebook, Still Offers Two Paid Tiers For Ad Haters And Power Users
— The bookend to Yahoo's Big News Day — a major refresh of its photo sharing site Flickr — will see the company drop its Flickr Pro pricing tiers as part of a bid to compete better …
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Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage
— The new Flickr is live. — Smack-dab in the middle of Yahoo-Tumblr aqcuisition day, Yahoo is holding a major press event here in NYC. But announcements coming out of this event aren't related …
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Yahoo! Takes Over Times Square
— I am so pleased to share that our New York City-based Yahoo! team will soon move into an incredible, four-story space just around the corner from Times Square. It's thrilling for us - and really an important sign of the new direction of Yahoo! …
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Live from Yahoo's Flickr press event
— We're live from Yahoo's Flickr press event in New York City where it plans to make a big announcement. Tune in at 5 PM Eastern for all the news as it happens. It's been quite some time since Yahoo revamped Flickr, its popular photo service.
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Tumblr's Ad Sales Pitch Deck Says Brands Will Now Be ‘Front And Center’
— Tumblr is wasting no time in ramping up the amount of advertising it serves now that its $1.1 billion acquisition by Yahoo has been announced. — Tumblr will launch a test of “in-stream” ads on its desktop users' dashboards …
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance — Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk. We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).