Yahoo! Drops a Billion Dollars on Tumblr

[JMcEntegart]

Yahoo! has promised to not screw it up.

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[nevilence]

who knew there was THAT much money in blogs, i think i need to rethink my job choices

 

[abbadon_34]

there's not, the money is in tricking other people to make your content

 

[okibrian]

The Tumblr thing was yesterday. We are on the Flickr

 

[okibrian]

The Tumblr thing was yesterday. We are on the Flickr 1TB thing today. Keep up.

 

[10tacle]

I'm afraid the social media and blogs are here to stay. This is a different scenario than during the 2000 tech dotcom bust. Back then a lot of people were still not connected to the web, and investors realized that paper launches are not guaranteed.
Today however, between mobile phones, tablets, and WiFi, everyone has access to instant social media and blogs anywhere. Further, unlike the internet's first six years of main stream use between 1994-2000 when people were limited to wired access inside, today's sites are all intertwined with connectivity and instant linking anywhere there's a WiFi or cellular signal. Combine that with all the advertisement that can be linked, and it's the next step in information/entertainment evolution, and it's here to stay until the next big thing.

 

[4745454b]

Yahoo has $1B+?

 

[Azn Cracker]

^ Yea they dont have to pay their crappy "journalists"

 

[cats_Paw]

I dont even know what this is .
A billion aint that much thou, not nowdays.

 

[Cazalan]

The money is for the owners of the site selling advertising not so much the bloggers.

 

[alyssaethan1]

as Elizabeth replied I'm amazed that a mom can earn $7438 in four weeks on the computer. did you see this site go to this site home tab for more detail--->>> HTTP/WWW.JOBS34.COM

 

[ronch79]

Throw a billion here, throw a billion there... LOL

 

[tomc100]

^^ People get their news from Yahoo?

 

[gm0n3y]

Is Tumblr like Twitter? I fail to see how that could possibly be worth $1 billion. And how the hell does Yahoo even have a billion dollars? As with most Yahoo moves, this has fail written all over it..