Yahoo buys Tumblr
I wonder if people are going to flee now. Hopefully Yahoo won’t let Tumblr die like they dig Flickr. According to the WSJ, the deal could be announced as early as Monday. Tumblr will be allowed to run as an independent business unit. Why would Yahoo, under the leadership of newly minted CEO Marissa Mayer make such a move? The WSJ speculates that it was to gain a social networking presence. Google+ is now the second most popular social network in the world. Yahoo has had no social networking sites to speak of. Yahoo’s one previous major social networking play–the...