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Flickr gets revamp -- with 1 TB of photo storage free -- and Yahoo gets new NYC office

Yahoo officially acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion, promises "not to s***w it up"

What Tumblr's sale means for New York startup ecosystem

Report: Yahoo's board agrees to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr

Why Yahoo acquiring Tumblr for $1 billion makes a certain horrible kind of sense

Report: Yahoo eager to close $1.1 billion cash deal for Tumblr by Sunday evening

Parakweet uses natural language processing to find value in your tweets

Yahoo wants to buy Tumblr. Will Facebook swoop in at the last minute?

How ABC uses live streaming and the cloud to challenge Aereo

A mobile internet subsidized by content providers: ESPN might want it but you shouldn't

Why Branch could have a future connecting companies with customers

Marissa Mayer: expect video tiers but no Yahoo Home

Viber morphs into full-blown Skype rival by releasing desktop app

Internet sales tax bill passes Senate, awaits House approval

CenturyLink gets gigabit fever .. in Omaha

It's official: Tom Wheeler is the nominee for the FCC chair

Chat apps have overtaken SMS by message volume, but how big a disaster is that for carriers?

Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository, and so can you

Vermont gets a gigabit network. And it only costs residents $35 a month

As Internet gets faster, Hong Kong & South Korea lead the broadband speed derby

Swype takes SwiftKey head on, debuting on Google Play

How energy harvesting tech could power wearables and the internet of things

A look under the hood: why electric car startup Fisker crashed and burned

Provo, Utah is the next stop for Google Fiber

Comcast confirms: Yes, we're encrypting basic cable now

How technology is slowly developing its sense of smell

Why I have issues with Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us

Google could face Android antitrust investigation in Europe, after Microsoft complains

Allen Stern, blogging pioneer and entrepreneur, passes away -- we will miss you Allen

As Austin readies for Google Fiber, here's why you need a gig: even if you don't think you do

Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy.

A Facebook phone: Is this the final brick in the social network's walled garden?

Egyptian coastguard arrests divers over major broadband cable cut

Apple ensnared in Chinese patent fight over Siri

What you need to know about the world's biggest DDoS attack

Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself

Why Google killed off Google Reader: It was self-defense

Digg: Don't worry, Google Reader fans, we're building an alternative

Redbox Instant ready to open its doors to the public

Google kills Google Reader, will go offline on July 1, 2013

Netflix goes social, turns on Facebook integration for U.S. subscribers

The King of 3D printing kicks off a SXSW focused on the physical world

Doing that one thing

Passbook mobile ticketing expanding to 13 MLB ballparks this season

Apple settles lawsuit over apps aimed at kids -- will pay $5 iTunes credit or cash

Jawbone buys Visera & MassiveHealth to marry data & design with wearable computing

BitTorrent is working on a personal file syncing app to compete with Dropbox

The story behind DIAL: How Netflix and YouTube want to take on AirPlay

Seattle is the latest city to go around ISPs to get a gigabit network

Guardian kills its Facebook social reader, regains control over its content