Ever wanted to find some of your old pins from when you first joined Pinterest? Well now you can. The photo sharing platform just added a new feature to its search results, allowing you to search and view your own pins. How it works is you type a word in the search bar, and then more »

Yahoo has gotta turn a profit after dropping $1,100,000,000 on Tumblr, so if you’re a Tumblrer get ready for a bunch of Denny’s plugs and gifs of Grand Slams. The new sponsored ads will be distinguished by the shimmering dollar-sign you see on the right. Not too in-your-face, yet. We’ll see how far Yahoo pushes more »

I guess Wednesday is the best day for app updates; the Twitter mobile app was updated today. According to the company’s blog post, the most obvious changes involve better photo controls: images are now previewable in an uncropped form and adding images to tweets are as easy as clicking a little photo icon right in more »

  Civil liberties organization The Rutherford Institute filed a lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of Brandon Raub, a Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who was detained in a psychiatric facility due to posts he made on Facebook. He was taken into custody last August after being questioned by the FBI over the more »

The deal has been sealed for Yahoo to acquire the ultra popular blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer has promised there won’t be any significant changes to the platform, and will provide ads that are “seamless and enhance user experience.” However, with the way the Internet giant has capitalized on both more »

And just like that, after being the subject of tech talks last weekend, Yahoo made it official and announced that they’ve reached an agreement with Tumblr. Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. None other than Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer wrote via the company’s official Tumblr, announcing the acquisition deal. In the said Tumblr post, more »

Rumors are swirling that Yahoo is in talks to acquire Tumblr. Apparently Ken Goldman, Yahoo’s CFO explained the Internet giant’s concern for its aging users. In an attempt to appeal to the 18-24 year-old-demographic, they’re seriously considering bring Tumblr on board. “One of our challenges is we have an aging demographic,” explained Goldman at JP more »

With Google rebranding all of it’s communications services into one crossplatform system, Hangouts, announced yesterday, some users were criticizing the new functionality and it’s lack of including some of the most common ways that people communicate: SMS text messaging and voice calls. Although these services will not be rolling out with the new ‘umbrella’ service, more »

Twitter seems to be finally working on a branded analytics product. On Monday, the brand acquired data analytics startup Lucky Sort. “Two years ago I started Lucky Sort with several friends,” said Noah Pepper, CEO of Lucky Sort.” Our goal was to make huge document sets easier to analyze, summarize and visualize by building elegant more »

Although we had thought it would be called “Babel,” Google did do something about its various chat platforms and their lacking synergies. On Wednesday during the company’s annual I/O developer’s conference, they (among many other things) introduced Google “Hangouts.” Made available for iOS and Android mobile operating systems and on the web via a special more »

Since Babblr recently launched, the chat client for Tumblr received an overwhelming response. Unfortunately, they weren’t expecting such a high volume of users in a short period of time, as they received 34,000 downloads within 3 hours. The traffic it received fried the servers, and temporarily shut it down. They are now accepting donations to more »

The iOS version of the Facebook app received an update today bringing it to version 6.1. When you download it, the first thing you may notice is the new app icon. The font of the Facebook “f” is the same, but the icon now has grid lines and a silver trim around its borders. It’s more »