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Financial Times
2 hrs ago
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Chief executive Marissa Mayer, targets growth on mobiles in her first comments since completing the $1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr, the social media website
Forbes
4 hrs ago
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Making clear that she is well aware of what everyone in digital media fears, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today that her company would purchase social media blogging powerhouse Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash and would "not to screw it up"...
New York Times
5 hrs ago
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The board of Yahoo agrees to buy Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash. | Steven A. Cohen of SAC Capital has received a subpoena to testify before a grand jury. | Shareholders of JPMorgan Chase will have the opportunity to deliver a rebuff to...
Forbes
May 20
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When Jim Keenan, the social sales specialist, describes his work today, he’ll tell you that he’s “ushering salespeople from the old world into the social world” - the cold calling world to the Twitter world, the salespeople who call...
Financial Times
May 19
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Tumblr, launched in 2007, has married short-form blogging with social media sharing to create a service but its growth rate has slowed this year
Red Orbit
May 19
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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online
We are all addicted to our cell phones, iPads, Kindle Fires and laptops. Up-to-the-minute updates for email, news, social media and more are just a click or a touch away. All of this...
CNNMoney.com
May 17
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Social media describes websites that allow users to share content, media, etc. Common examples are the popular social networking sites like Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, etc. Social media also includes YouTube, Photobucket, Flickr, and other sites aimed at photo and video sharing. News aggregation and online reference sources, examples of which are Digg and Wikipedia, are also counted in the social media bucket. Micro-blogging sites such as twitter can also be included as social media.
- News Corporation (NWS) owns Myspace, the most-viewed website in the world. It also purchased Photobucket, a photo-sharing website.
- Yahoo! (YHOO) has been making moves to enter the social media segment. Its Flickr photo-sharing website and 360 social networking site are examples of this.
- Google (GOOG) purchased YouTube, a leading online video sharing website.
- Microsoft (MSFT) announced a minority $240 million investment in Facebook in late October, valuing the company at an estimated $5 to $15 billion overall.
- AOL announced on March 2008 the $850 million purchase of Bebo. At the time, Bebo was the third largest social networking site behind MySpace and Facebook in terms of page views and unique monthly visitors, both key metrics for online advertising
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