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1. • • And that’s a big part of why Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer went after it: She wants to shed the well-earned image of Yahoo as a fading Web 1.0 player. Tumblr skews young, and Yahoo needs young. It also needs to strengthen its position in mobile, and Tumblr will help it do that, too.
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   Is Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr a done deal?

   • In a Thursday Tumblr post, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced that the web giant has officially completed its acquisition of Tumblr. Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr is a done deal. In a Thursday Tumblr post, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced that the Web giant has officially completed its acquisition of Tumblr.

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   Did Yahoo buy Tumblr?

   • Yahoo ended up buying blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013 — which, to put it mildly, did not pan out as expected. “We looked at a transformative acquisition, and we bought Tumblr,” Mayer said. “At the same time, we were also considering whether it was possible to buy Hulu or, ironically, Netflix.

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   Who bought Tumblr?

   • I am not, of course, talking about today’s Tumblr, which was bought this week by WordPress’s parent company, Automattic, from Verizon, which had bought AOL, which had bought Yahoo, which had originally bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013.

   Opinion | Who Killed Tumblr? We All Did - The New York Times

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   What happened to Tumblr?

   • But it struggled to monetize Tumblr’s user base and, in 2015, took a $230 million goodwill-impairment charge . Verizon ended up buying Yahoo in 2017 for $4.5 billion. In 2019, Verizon sold Tumblr to Automattic, the company that owns and operates online-publishing platform WordPress, for a reported $3 million.

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   Are Tumblr users jumping ship to avoid Yahoo?

   • While Mayer called this "an incredibly exciting day for Yahoo and Tumblr," not everyone is as pleased with the deal. Following news of the acquisition, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg claimed that many Tumblr users are jumping ship to his blogging platform to avoid dealing with Yahoo.

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   Why is Tumblr so popular?

   • This was not the fate anyone imagined when Tumblr was founded in early 2007 by David Karp and Marco Arment. It quickly became the brightest in a flurry of truly innovative social media developments of the time. Pronounced “tumbler,” it allowed users to post all kinds of short-form blogs called tumblelogs, which could be followed by others.

   Opinion | Who Killed Tumblr? We All Did - The New York Times

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3. variety.com › 2023 › digitalMarissa Mayer Regrets Yahoo Acquiring Tumblr Instead of Netflix

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   May 6, 2023 · Yahoo mulled buying Netflix or Hulu — and in hindsight, either would have been better than its deal for Tumblr in 2013, ex-CEO Marissa Mayer said.

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4. www.bizjournals.com › bizwomen › newsEx-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says buying Tumblr was a mistake ...

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   In a recent interview with Tech Brew, Mayer — who was 36 when she jumped from Google LLC, where she had been employee No. 20, to Yahoo in 2012 — admitted buying the blogging platform Tumblr for...

5. www.pcmag.com › news › yahoo-officially-completesYahoo Officially Completes Tumblr Acquisition - PCMag

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   Jun 20, 2013 · In a Thursday Tumblr post, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced that the Web giant has officially completed its acquisition of Tumblr. The news comes one month after Yahoo first announced plans to...

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6. www.tumblr.com › marissamayr › 50902274591Marissa's Tumblr on Tumblr: I’m delighted to announce that we ...

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   I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr! We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO.

7. www.businessinsider.com › david-karp-speaks-heresDavid Karp Speaks: Here's Why I Sold Tumblr To Yahoo

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   May 31, 2013 · Mayer wanted Tumblr because she was "looking for a future for Yahoo, a path forward and growth." She convinced Karp that an acquisition would save Karp from a painful...

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9. www.nytimes.com › 2019/08/14 › opinionOpinion | Who Killed Tumblr? We All Did - The New York Times

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   Aug 14, 2019 · Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr caused a giant hubbub in the social media space after it was heralded by Yahoo’s chief executive at the time, Marissa Mayer, as the cornerstone in her plot to...

10. www.independent.co.uk › tech › we-won-t-screw-it-up'We won't screw it up': Yahoo buys New York-based social ...

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    May 20, 2013 · 'We won't screw it up': Yahoo buys New York-based social network Tumblr for $1.1bn as chief executive Marissa Mayer rules out radical changes following negative reaction. Deal for £723m in cash...