Yahoo has made a couple bold moves in an effort to make Flickr the premier destination for storing and sharing photographs. Flickr user’s homepages have been completely redesigned to make the photos more prominent than ever. There’s also a spot to upload a profile feature and a customizable banner. It’s reminiscent of Facebook timelines. The second big 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 »

Google Showed off a brand new version of the web-based Google Maps a couple days ago at Google I/O. At that time, access to the new maps was restricted to those who chose to sign up for an invitation. Those invitations started to roll out yesterday afternoon. If you requested an invitation, check your email 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 »

As distracting as seeing a dude on the train wearing Google Glass is now, imagine what you’d be thinking if you saw the same person wearing a pair of the original Glass prototypes in this image. Lifted from Engadget, via a photo taken by Search Engine Land editor-in-chief, @dannysullivan, at Google’s I/O conference yesterday, this more »

Google is on top of the world right now. After a solid day one of their annual I/O conference, they’ve shared with the world some big plans of rolling out some incredible new products and services. Likewise, they are improving aspects of some of their most popular applications, such as their communication system and Wallet. 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 »

Google made a rather unexpected announcement on the Gmail blog this afternoon. Google Wallet has been integrated into Gmail so users can send and receive money quickly and easily. Both parties don’t need to have a Gmail account to use this, but they do need to have a Google Wallet account. Money can be sent more »