Plunking down $1.1 billion for blogging platform Tumblr was the easy part. Now Yahoo has to live up to its pledge "not to screw it up." NBC News outlines the challenges.
What Yahoo gets out of the Tumblr buy, with CNBC's Jon Fortt; and Alyson Shontell, Business Insider and Larry Fishelson, Dynalink Communications, discuss how the market is reacting to the deal.
David Karp stands to make more than $200 million on the sale of his Tumblr blogging site to Yahoo. But his father tells CNBC that money doesn’t motivate the young entrepreneur.
With news that authorities seized assets of the world's largest bitcoin exchange, traders and other people interested in the digital currency are looking nervously at the future.
Google is using Nvidia to fight its main rivals: Apple in mobile computing, Microsoft in PCs and gaming, and Facebook in social networking, TheStreet.com says.
The board of Yahoo agreed on Sunday to buy the popular blogging service Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash, a signal of how the company plans to reposition itself as the technology industry makes a headlong rush into social media, the NYT reports.
Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray, and Ken Sena, Evercore Partners, discuss the future of Facebook. It's the worst-performing stock on the Nasdaq since its IPO a year ago.
Andy Brough, fund manager at Schroders, discusses the "massive rerating" in the stock market and advises being cautious as it remains a "risk on environment".
Google has reportedly signed licensing deals with Universal Music and Sony Music to launch a subscription music service that would compete with fast-growing start-up Spotify.