Monday, May 20, 2013

Yahoo goes into internet porn business

By Donald Sensing

The big technology-company news today is that Yahoo.com announced it will buy Tumblr.com for $1.1 billion. 

Apparently this is getting a lot of attention because:

1. Tumblr is a blog platform, which means that Yahoo is now (potentially) able to go head to head against Google, which own Blogspot (the platform for this blog),

2. "Tumblr gets a bunch of traffic from porn and copyright-violating content. And that doesn't jibe well with any sensible advertiser" (from http://www.businessinsider.com/tumblr-porn-problem-2013-5).



I have a Tumblr blog that I used mainly to park links to read later, but I haven't used it in a long time.

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