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Tumblr Loses Nearly 100m Users After Porn Ban
Tumblr Loses Nearly 100m Users In 1 Month Towards the end of last year, social media site Tumblr announced that they were planning new community guidelines. These were specifically to prevent pornography being spread on the platform. Looking to hopefully improve the ‘wholesomeness’ of the platform, however, many users made…
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Hacker Dishes the Dirt on Selling Your Passwords
For the last few months, the internet has been abuzz with news of mass hacks, with notable sites such as MySpace, Tumblr, Twitter, and LinkedIn falling victim to account security breaches – resulting in millions of e-mail and password combinations being sold on the dark web – with the latter triggering…
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Revamped Yahoo Messenger Adds Unsend Feature
In an effort to bring their venerable instant messaging service back into popularity, Yahoo has revealed a new version of their Yahoo Messenger app. This revamp brings a bevy of new features of the service, most notably introducing the ability for users to access up to a year’s worth of…
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Love Pixel Art? Check out These Stunning 8-bit GIFs of Japan
Japan has evolved to a somewhat juxtaposition within today’s fast moving tech world but has still kept its identity and influences from the past. It’s difficult to quantify how life moves within a new direction considering we as humans live through and are not aware of the imperceptible per day…
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Tumblr TV Is the Latest GIF Video Player on the Web
Tumblr just added a GIF search engine earlier this month and it now launched yet another GIF dedicated feature, namely Tumblr TV. From the looks of it, the feature aims to be a 9GAG.tv service, but for GIFs. Unlike its GIF search engine, users don’t have to be logged into…
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Tumblr Adds SSL, Makes You Choose Between XKit and SSL
Tumblr has reportedly implemented support for SSL security on its blogging platform, but apparently missed one big thing. To activate it by defaul. Yes, the security feature exist, but you have to manually turn it on yourself. Even so, the security feature is extremely welcomed by users, especially nowadays when…
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Microsoft Packs Popular Websites Into Apps To Fill The Windows Phone Store
Popular apps such as Pandora and Tumblr have been cooked up into apps and headed over to Windows Phone in recent months, and in the coming days, Instagram and Flipboard will be the latest mega-popular smartphone apps added to that list. But despite the numerous big name, Microsoft is still trailing Android and…
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Young Americans Prefer Twitter Over Facebook
A NY Daily News report suggests that American teenagers are beginning to favour Twitter more than Facebook. Their findings, from a representative sample of 8300 teenagers, showed that when asked about what social networking platforms they prefer the top three positions were dominated by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Twitter was…
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Tumblr’s Bank Account Had Just $16 Million When Yahoo Took Over
Softpedia reports that Tumblr was “extremely poor” before the Yahoo takeover took place. Tumblr had just $16 million in the bank before the takeover, which is relatively low for such a large social media company. With such a low balance Tumblr were almost forced to sell as the lack of…
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Tumblr Thriving After Yahoo Deal, 250K New Blogs Daily
Most analysts commenting on Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr seemed to think that the deal would ruin Tumblr and it would rapidly fall apart under the direction of Yahoo. However, the total opposite seems to have happened and Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition is now thriving with 250,000 new blogs being created daily…
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Yahoo Gets Approval for $1.1 Billion Deal for Tumblr
The board of directors at Yahoo have been given the go ahead for the acquisition of microblogging platform and social networking website; Tumblr. The Wall Street Journal reports a $1.1 Billion cash deal for the company and will see the site continuing to operate as an independant business, though no…
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