Yahoo's board approves $1.1 bln Tumblr acquisition - WSJ

Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) Invitations for the briefing were sent to media outlets today. The person declined to be identified because the information is private. Mayer has spent much of her first year at the helm of the Web's biggest portal revamping ...

Yahoo declined to comment on the rumours that it has bought TumblrUS tech giant Yahoo is expected to unveil a deal worth more than a billion dollars to buy blogging service Tumblr later.The move would give Yahoo its own social media platform as it ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's first quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street targets and its display advertising business experienced declining sales for the second quarter in a row, sending the Internet company's shares down about 4 percent.

11:10 AM New York U.S. stocks traded near flat lines on merger Monday. Precious metals linked companies declined for the sixth day in a row as speculators exit commodities markets. Warner Chilcott agreed to a merger with Actavis for $8.5 billion.

Yahoo's search market share continues to decline in spite of its partnership with Microsoft's Bing search engine. Search ads revenues have increased in the past quarters, but its Revenue Per Search (RPS) lags industry benchmarks. Terminating its ...

MARISSA MAYER, the chief executive of Yahoo!, yesterday made her boldest move yet to restore the fallen star of the dotcom era to its former glory. In its first major gamble on her watch, the company announced a major deal -- the pounds sterling ...

With social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter citing their stringent privacy settings to decline Indian agencies requests for data on users indulging in suspicious net activity, cyber security experts are exploring the option of promoting a ...

Marissa Mayer aims to avoid a repeat Yahoo (NasdaqGS: YHOO - news) !'s previous mistakes by letting $1.1bn buy Tumblr keep its identity, but bloggers wil have to get used to more advertising, writes Christopher Williams . Having just spent $1.1bn ...

As the dust around Yahoo 's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr begins to settle, more details are emerging on how the former will enhance the latter's advertising offerings. Ads on Tumblr could be served from an ad exchange, Yahoo CEO Marissa ...