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Quoted: Tumblr CEO talks ‘awesome’ Yahoo deal

"Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We're not turning purple." — David Karp, Tumblr CEO, on Yahoo's $1.1 billion purchase of the popular blogging site, which was confirmed this Read More →

Can Facebook go Home again? HTC First cut to 99 cents

Facebook, like other companies, has said its future is in mobile. How's that going? Well, AT&T this week cut the price of the first "Facebook phone," a.k.a. the HTC First, to 99 cents less than a month after its launch. The Read More →

Fashion site JustFab buys Christina Applegate company FabKids

FabKids, a subscription clothing site that personalizes outfits for girls, has been bought by the grown-up version of the same service, JustFab. The two fashion sites will now share one platform for, dare we say, double Read More →

Consumer wins: Best Buy and other retail moves, Amazon Kindles, Sprint acquisition talks

As tech-related competition heats up among big U.S. companies, here are a few examples of how consumers are benefiting or could benefit: • Best Buy, the electronics retailer that like other stores is struggling amid the rise of showrooming (the growing Read More →

Rounding up trouble: OnLive, Hulu, Groupon

Break out the bubble-bursting talk, we're rounding up some young companies in transition, in trouble or both: • First, there's the restructuring of Palo Alto online-gaming company OnLive, which on Friday fired many or all of its employees, according to various Read More →

Stock roller-coaster: EA up on buyout report; Facebook down; Cisco up

Today's tech-stock high and lows: • Electronic Arts, which according to a New York Post report is considering a sale to a couple of private-equity giants that have approached it, is seeing its shares climb the most Read More →
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