Yahoo agrees to pay in excess of $1bn for Tumblr
20 May 2013 | by Gordon MacMillan
Yahoo has agreed a deal to buy social blogging platform Tumblr for more than $1bn (£66m).
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Yahoo has agreed a deal to buy social blogging platform Tumblr for more than $1bn (£66m).
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