Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) — On Sunday, Yahoo’s board of directors approved the purchase of the social networking and blog site Tumblr for $1.1 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Speculation that Yaho…
New York Public Library Posts Photo from 1939 with Jay-Z Look-Alike
Jim McIsaac/Getty Images(NEW YORK) – A photo from 1939 that was posted to the New York Public Library’s Tumblr blog on Friday bears the image of a man who many say looks eerily like rapper Jay-z.A spokeswoman for the library told the New York Ti…
New York Public Library Posts Photo from 1939 with Jay-Z Look-Alike
Jim McIsaac/Getty Images(NEW YORK) – A photo from 1939 that was posted to the New York Public Library’s Tumblr blog on Friday bears the image of a man who many say looks eerily like rapper Jay-z.A spokeswoman for the library told the New York Ti…
Google Glass Highlights Tech World’s Gender Disparity
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The marketing videos for Google’s Glass show a diverse group of people wearing the digital glasses. But a new website has popped up that points out that the first group of people wearing t…
A Tough Week for the Internet as Major Sites Experience Outages
Photos.com/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Last week it was YouTube for a few minutes, but this week it was more than just the streaming video service that wasn’t available to Internet users.Earlier this week, Amazon’s Web Services went down causing sites that…
Internet Takes Off with Mitt Romney’s ‘Binders Full of Women’
Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Despite all the fireworks over taxes, oil and Libya, the most buzzworthy social media moment of Tuesday night’s presidential debate was Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s comment about &ldqu…
Rep. Paul Ryan Gets His Own ‘Hey Girl’ Internet Meme
Michael Bonfigli /The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The Internet meme that propelled Ryan Gosling to viral Internet heartthrob status took a turn for the political this week, setting its hunky photo captioning prowess upon H…