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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
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.
May 23, 2013, 12:05 PMIn context
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
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 …
May 23, 2013, 10:35 AMIn context
Elena Berton / Reuters:
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.
May 21, 2013, 4:00 PMIn context
Wall Street Journal:
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.
May 21, 2013, 1:30 AMIn context
Todd Hoff / High Scalability:
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?
May 21, 2013, 12:40 AMIn context
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
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 …
May 20, 2013, 7:10 PMIn context
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
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 …
May 20, 2013, 5:35 PMIn context
Jackie Reses / Yahoo!:
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! …
May 20, 2013, 5:17 PMIn context
The Verge:
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.
May 20, 2013, 5:00 PMIn context
Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
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 …
May 20, 2013, 4:55 PMIn context

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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Unison's blog:
“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).