IndustryThe billion dollar birthday present - Yahoo confirms Tumblr acquisition
By Graeme Philipson
The rumours were correct. Yahoo will buy blogging site Tumblr for US$1.1 million in cash. The deal was announced on Tumblr founder David Karp’s 26th birthday.
Despite economic challenges, the Australian supply chain management (SCM) software market grew 17.9% to reach $176.8 million in 2012, up from $149.9 million in 2011.
Australia is one of the most advanced data centre services market in terms of size in the Asia Pacific region, according to a newly published report which estimates revenues in the Australian market will climb to over $1.5 billion by 2019.
The Australasian arm of UK communications group, BT, has teamed up with Australian indigenous business networking organisation, Supply Nation, as part of its Reconciliation Action Plan.
Global printer manufacturer, OKI Data, has won a contract to deploy high performance mono printers in Sanity retail locations across Australia.
Australian IT services company, Internetrix, is set to expand its services and its operations in China with a management buyout of the business by three company executives.
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Intuitive customer experience company [24]7 is to acquire social commerce platform vendor, Shopalize.
Yahoo's board has approved its biggest merger under CEO Marissa Mayer, acquiring blogging service Tumblr according to reports.
Professional social networking company, LinkedIn has changed its terms of use policy aimed at ensuring sex workers and escort services can no longer advertise or promote their services to the 200-millon plus members of its global network.
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