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It's Official: Yahoo to Pay $1.1 Billion for Tumblr
VarietyYahoo will pay about $1.1 billion, mostly in cash, to buy blogging website Tumblr, the companies announced Monday. Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business, led by Tumblr CEO David Karp, the companies said, "per the agreement and...Tags: Marissa Mayer, Google Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Social Media, Media Industry
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Why Yahoo-Tumblr makes sense
ReutersAmidst all the positivity coming out of Yahoo and Tumblr, any self-respecting pundit is going to want to pour cold water on the whole deal. Especially since billion-dollar mergers almost never work out very well. But here's the weird thing: the more I...Tags: Marissa Mayer, Google Inc., Social Media
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As grocers, restaurants bicker, many menus still lack calorie counts
Three years after Congress voted to require it, you still won't find calories listed on the menus of most restaurant chains. The problem? The federal government has yet to write the specific rules to carry out the law, in part because supermarkets are...
Tags: Starbucks Corp., McDonald's, Dining and Drinking, Salads, Cathy McMorris
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Connecticut gov tells commuters to work from home this week while crash repaired
ReutersBy Richard Weizel and Edith Honan MILFORD, Conn./NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - Thousands of Connecticut commuters faced delays and crowded trains on Monday as Metro-North workers scrambled to repair damage on the United States' busiest rail line, caused...Tags: Railway Transportation, Fairfield (Fairfield, Connecticut), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), Government
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Star City Star has co-starred in some Hollywood films
The Roanoke Times, Va.Q: I'd like to know which major movies have been shot in and around the Roanoke Valley over the years. - Sherrick Drews, Roanoke A: I hesitate to answer this question because I know I'll be leaving some out, but a little digging reveals that Hollywood...Tags: Franklin County (Virginia), War of the Worlds (movie, 1953), Movies, Oscar Micheaux, Giles County
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Yahoo offers to buy Tumblr for $1.1B cash
Washington TimesYahoo's board of directors approved an offer to buy the ailing Tumblr company for $1.1 billion in cash. Tumblr has yet to agree to the deal, various media reported. But the acquisition could be made official as early as Monday, the San Francisco...Tags: Marissa Mayer, Twitter, Inc., Google Inc., Social Media, Google+
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Graduates Leave UHart, But It Won't Leave Them
The Hartford CourantA commencement speech that touched on elephant excrement, the stupidity of drinking and driving, and Balzac's thoughts on the relations between the sexes delighted graduates of University of Hartford Sunday, so much so that they gave novelist and...Tags: Science and Technology, Engineering, Medical Specialization, Religion and Belief, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut)
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More poor live in suburbs than urban areas, research shows
Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...
Tags: Poverty, Park Forest, Chicago Tribune, Brookings Institution, Colleges and Universities
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L.A. Dance Summit to explore how to solve dance community woes
A conference to help dancers tackle the Sisyphean task of surviving and succeeding in Los Angeles will feature an unprecedented array of city, county, nonprofit and artistic leaders. The inaugural L.A. Dance Summit, scheduled for June 8 at the...
Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Arts and Culture, Culture, Entertainment, Music
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Conn. commuters cope with tough week after train crash
Commuters on Monday grappled with the inconvenience of their morning ritual after a deadly train collision in Connecticut last week, but the traffic nightmare that some had predicted did not materialize. Special shuttle buses and telecommuting took some...
Tags: Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Transportation Accidents, Dannel P. Malloy , Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Magazine targeted to retirees features benefits of Natchez
The Natchez Democrat, Miss.Some people think of retirement as a time to slow down. But for Sandy Taylor, retiring to Natchez was a chance to stay as busy as ever as cheaply as ever. Natchez was recently featured in a 12-page article touting its benefits as a retirement...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Arts and Culture, Culture, Washington, DC, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Crash derails travel plans
Boston HeraldDerailed train passengers were scrambling yesterday to make alternate travel plans after two packed commuter trains collided outside Bridgeport, Conn., injuring 72 people and smashing the rail lines that serve one of the nation's busiest transit...Tags: Railway Transportation, Amtrak, Yale University, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Dannel P. Malloy
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