Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1 Billion Deal as Expected →

Yahoo does not have a good track record with the handling of its past acquisitions. My fingers are crossed in hopes that they don’t mess up a good thing.

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techilicious:

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The next generation of Instapaper at Betaworks →

parislemon:

Marco Arment:

I’m happy to announce that I’ve sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks. We’ve structured the deal with Instapaper’s health and longevity as the top priority, with incentives to keep it going well into the future. I will continue advising the project indefinitely, while Betaworks will take over its operations, expand its staff, and develop it further.

A seemingly perfect fit for the product going forward. Huge congrats to Marco.

Congrats, indeed.

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staff:

Now you can do more than just reblog when you find something you love on Tumblr for iPhone and iPad.

• Share posts via Twitter, Facebook, and more
• Save stuff for later using Instapaper and Pocket
• Email an entire post with our beautiful new template
• Close photos by flinging up or down!
• GIFs animate while you scroll*
• Search your Following list (it’s now alphabetized and grouped by first letter!)

Download the update

*iPad 2, 3 and 4, iPad Mini, iPod Touch 5th Generation, iPhone 4S and 5 only

Google is trying to shrink Motorola into success →

parislemon:

Tero Kuittinen of BGR:

It is hard not to admire Sanjay Jha’s cool genius in handling Motorola’s sale to Google. He leveraged Motorola’s old sales contacts in Asia and Latin America to push nondescript models into sales channel, creating an illusion of international traction during 2010 and early 2011. He created a shadow play of a healthy AT&T relationship, feeding expectations of substantial sales growth for Motorola’s business in the United States. For a brief time, Motorola seemed like a company in healthy shape.

Then Google announced its intent to buy Motorola in the summer of 2011 and the glamor flaked off like glitter lipstick from a Chicago prostitute in dawn’s cold light.