Tumblr and a proposed $ 81 million

Yahoo! recientemete completed the purchase of the Tumblr blogging service  for U.S. $ 1,100 million . Its young founder, David Karp, 27, could receive $ 81 million , with one condition: that stay four more years in office. The entrepreneur created Tumblr in 2007, a few years after leaving high school in New York to focus on information technology. The CEO of Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer , undertook not to make dramatic changes in Tumblr hoping that the acquisition does not alienate users current blog service, which includes a large number of teenagers and young adults. As part of his promise, Mayer is allowing Karp operate independently platform from New York. Yahoo! headquarters in California. Karp will remain at the company until June 2017 to receive full pay. It is believed that already owns 20 to 25 percent of Tumblr. 

Yahoo! acquired Tumblr for $ s1.100 million

Early versions about the transaction between the two companies had been completed was announced yesterday by The Wall Street Journal. Last Friday, Yahoo! had announced that he would hold a press conference on Monday in New York, without specifying the subject but promising to "share something special." Today, Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! , confirmed in his account adiquisición Twitterand his own Tumblr . Also, Yahoo! also published the news. According to the Sunnyvale company, the price of the acquisition was "approximately $ s1.100 million," which the vast majority would be paid in cash. Mayer said " Tumblr is redefining online creative expression ", while his Tumblr, promised that "not going to ruin". The comment could refer to the discontent that many users expressed the blog network know the first rumors of purchase. Yahoo! estimated with the acquisition, the audience could rise to 50% and overall traffic, 20 percent. For his part, David Karp, CEO of Tumblr , said the company would remain virtually unchanged after purchase and they were very excited to have the support of Yahoo! and its equipment, "who share our dream of making the Internet the most canvas of creativity." Tumblr was launched in February 2007 and currently has 175 employees. Available in 12 languages, is attributed 107.9 million blogs and 50,700 million publications. Yahoo! , founded in 1994 in California, has become an internet giant with 11,500 employees. The group had tried to buy the 75% of the video site Dailymotion, a subsidiary of Orange, but the French government had prevented negotiations ending in late April.

Teenager sells his app to Yahoo! by millions

Briton Nick D'Aloisio 17 became one of the youngest billionaires in the world technology to sell its mobile app Summly  to Yahoo! by a sum that could reach $ 30 million. Summly , that summarizes texts to phones, was developed in 2011 by D'Aloisio at age 15. Today his company has already raised $ 1.5 million.  "At 15 years old, Nick D'Aloisio created  Summly  app at home in London. This began with an acumen, we live in a world of constant information and we need new ways to simplify how to find the stories that are important to us, a glance, "said  Yahoo! . The California firm said "Nick and the team Summly  joining  Yahoo!  in the coming weeks. "  The agreement includes a position for D'Aloisio in the company's offices in London, where he will work full time and study at night to complete their training. The purchase is part of the renewal strategyMarissa Mayer dump Yahoo! for the company to smartphones. A few weeks ago, took social recommendation tool Jybe.

Yahoo! is inspired by Facebook

Yahoo! revamped its website and in certain aspects of the new website, the U.S. company has set in section Latest News from Facebook or the Timeline of Twitter. The new design is more intuitive and personal. " We wanted it to be familiar, but we also wanted to take some of the modern paradigms of the web " , said the chief executive of Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer, to NBC . "One thing I really like is the news flow that can be customized and is infinite " , the executive said. Mayer also said that the new website has recently designed applications that work well on computers as smartphones and tablets. The change in the site will begin by the U.S. and then spread to other countries. 

What was the most searched on Yahoo! in 2012

The U.S. presidential election became the most searched item, while Kim Kardashian turned out to be the best person required in Yahoo!, in a year in which online searches were dominated by large news and pop culture obsessions, said Monday the Internet company. The term "election" was the most searched and not only by the wide coverage of the media, but also by conversations on social networks. The term "political polling" was ranked 8th in the top 10 Yahoo! searches of the year. "The 2012 elections dominated online search, which is surprising because if something is in the news, and is accessible (...) people were really saturated, but even so, it was a keyword that people wrote throughout year, "said Vera Chan , trend analyst for Yahoo!, in a conference call. Chan said that only two stories, rather than a specific term, have occupied the list in the past decade: the death of Michael Jackson in 2009 and the BP oil spill in 2010. The word "iPhone 5" ranked number two, something interesting, according to Chan, in the "post-Steve Jobs", because although theApple iPhone has appeared regularly among the top searches since its launch in 2007, this was the first time a specific model appeared so high in the rankings. The TV star Kim Kardashian was the most searched on the website, at No. 3, there are six women among the 10 famous people required. Chan said the "notoriety Kardashian has kept her at the top", citing the drama of his divorce with ex-husband Kris Humphries, his close relationship with rapper Kanye West and his program channel E! . The British princess Kate Middleton , the cover of Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton, the late singer Whitney Houston , the problem celebrity Lindsay Lohan and pop star Jennifer Lopez are in the ranking of the 10 most sought after names in the news throughout the year. Middleton, who has been followed with enthusiasm by fans and critics in their first year of married to Prince William of Great Britain, also starred in the year's most wanted scandal after a French magazine published photos of him topless. The term "Olympics" came in seventh place on the list, as many Internet users flocked to online media to follow the great global sporting event held in London during the summer. Another list of Yahoo! searches on major obsessions, pop culture dominated this year.The Hunger Games , Star Honey Boo Boo, the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Gray, the British band One Direction, the song Carly Rae Jepsen "Call Me Maybe" and Korean rapper Psy with "Gangnam Style" occupied leading positions in the top-10.