Yahoo is attempting to procure Tumblr for $1.1 billion, and its board will meet on Sunday night to discuss the deal, according to Peter Kafka and Kara Swisher of AllThingsD — who at this point may have a direct line into Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s occipital lobe. With over 100 million visitors per month, according to comScore, and 108 million blogs, according to Tumblr’s homepage, Tumblr could be a great acquisition for just about any major company. But what kind of company is Yahoo trying to become?
When we launched Current Editorials back in 2011, we had one simple task in mind — to write long-form technology pieces that people would enjoy reading. We soon added news coverage and reviews on top of our initial objective, and the outcome and response was far greater than we initially anticipated. We reached and surpassed every goal we placed on ourselves, and accomplished much more than we could have ever hoped for, with what started out as (and still is) a four-man, part-time operation.
Today marks the beginning of the next phase of Current Editorials, a substantial shift into a new model, which we consider our biggest undertaking yet.
Welcome to CE: The Magazine.
Rebuilt from the ground up.
The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom, it was more of a roller-coaster ride, with several missed opportunities, at least two “aha” moments, and one major reboot.
Kara Swisher talks to Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and others about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram.
On January 9th, 2007, the smartphone arms-race began.That race ended March 14th, 2013.
When Calacanis makes statements expressing his belief that there is no race-barrier against minorities in the tech industry, or tells Anil Dash — A person of color — he didn’t experience what he said he did, it shows his incomprehension for the situation is on par with the moronic male congressmen and senators who believe they should be the ones making decisions about a woman’s reproductive rights.
Child of the 90s
(I’m still using Chrome)
Great article by Eric Leamen:
Last night, I renounced my quest to post one Instagram a day.
The reason was something that became readily apparent to me just a few days in, but which I ignored until last night. I was taking pictures of stupid, useless stuff. Stuff that my followers probably didn’t care about. Stuff that I really didn’t care about. Stuff like a piece of frozen pizza. I was taking pictures for the sake of meeting a quota, and that made Instagram lose all meaning. It wasn’t fun anymore. It felt like work.
Overreactions are overrated.
In what may be the most anticipated earnings release in recent memory, Apple has unveiled their first quarter numbers, and they are huge. Apple posted its largest quarter ever, with $54.5B in revenue, and $13.1B in net profits, compared to revenues of $46.3 billion and a net profit of $13.1 billion year over year.
Apple Q1: $54.5B Revenue, 47.8M iPhones sold, 22.9M iPads sold
