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Hello. I'm James. Marketing guy, style zealot, Apple fanboy, brainiac, lover of well-executed ideas, interesting people, films, music and champagne. Lots of champagne. These are words, images and sounds that inspire, intrigue or amuse me on a somewhat regular basis.
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“You can’t study comedy; it’s within you. It’s a personality. My humor is an attitude.” — Don Rickles
Much like schools of fish or groups of giggling school girls, bands of Myxococcus xanthus, a social bacterium, travel together. In order to hunt prey efficiently and protect one another these cells must coordinate the way in which they move - or “glide” - together. In this image the gliding of hundreds of thousands of these cells was tracked over four hours. Their paths transition from blue to red according to the amount of time elapsed, with blue as the start time and red as the end time. (Princeton University - Art of Science Competition)
Everyone, I’m elated to tell you that Tumblr will be joining Yahoo.
Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing. And our mission – to empower creators to…
“An acquisition by some tech giant is likely in the cards for Tumblr, though, as sources say the company only has a few months of cash runway left.” They spent all the money. It’s gone. And: “Tumblr pulled in $13 million in 2012, but has accelerated its advertising offering in hopes of hitting $100 million in revenue this year. The money’s not coming in fast enough to support its expenses though.”
“Before it was all about us. Now it’s all about him.”
Yahoo’s board of directors has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, according to a breaking news alert from The Wall Street Journal.
The deal is reportedly an all-cash acquisition, according to WSJ. Tumblr and Yahoo have not released any official statements.
