Can Yahoo avoid ‘screwing up’ Tumblr and still make money?
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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,” as CEO Marissa Mayer put it.
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Takeout sites GrubHub and Seamless will merge
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Rival online takeout services Seamless North America and GrubHub on Monday announced plans to combine and create a new company covering more than 20,000 restaurants in 500 cities across the U.S.
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Vowing ‘not to screw it up,’ Yahoo buys Tumblr
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Yahoo and Tumblr made their wedding vows Monday with the stumbling Web search giant publicly announcing its promise not to “screw up” the relationship.
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Report: Yahoo agrees to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash
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The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion for the blogging site Tumblr, according to The Wall Street Journal’s All Things D.
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Innocence lost: Class of 2013 comes of age in a weak economy
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The members of the class of 2013 entered college under the gloom the Great Recession, came of age in an era of economic uncertainty and are graduating into a job market still scarred by high unemployment.
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Where’s the beef? McDonald’s dropping Angus burgers from US menu
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A bit of bad news for all you beef lovers out there: McDonald’s said Thursday that it’s cutting one-third pound Angus burgers from its menus in the U.S. as beef prices hit all-time highs.
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Senate passes bill allowing states to tax online sales
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The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping — for many a largely tax-free frontier — to state sales taxes.
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US jobless rate dips to 7.5%, a four-year low
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The U.S. economy’s job-creation engine revved up in April, defying expectations that government budget cuts and a cold start to spring in much of the nation conspired to slow hiring.
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iTunes turns 10: How Apple music store killed old music industry
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When Tower Records, a hallowed music store chain with a 46-year history, shuttered its doors at the end of 2006, The Nation called it ”the day the music died.”
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McDonald’s breakfast all day. It could happen, CEO says
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Consumers can expect one of the world’s largest restaurant chains to look very different in the future, with new menu items, delivery services, loyalty programs, and maybe even all-day breakfast options. McDonald’s President and CEO Don Thompson, in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” offered a peek into the future of the fast-food chain.
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Twinkies (the real ones) back on store shelves in July
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Stand down Twinkies hoarders, you can start eating your secret stash.
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New, high-tech $100 bill coming in October
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The new $100 bill: Same old face, with some high-tech tweaks meant to thwart counterfeiters.
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Gamers can order Pizza Hut straight from the Xbox — with hand gestures!
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Long slave to the physical demands of picking up a phone, computer, smartphone, or tablet to place an order for food delivery, gamers can now create their own custom Pizza Hut pizzas — and order them — from their Xbox 360 console thanks to a unique partnership between Microsoft and the international chain.
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