GadgeTell » Web http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets Gadgetell lives by the phrase 'Tech News, Reviews, and Interesting Things' and that is exactly what we bring you. Tue, 21 May 2013 21:50:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Yahoo/Tumblr Deal Confirmed, Will Users be Concerned?http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121248/yahootumblr-deal-confirmed-will-users-be-concerned/ http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121248/yahootumblr-deal-confirmed-will-users-be-concerned/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 21:47:20 +0000 Christina Jones http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/?p=121248 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 »

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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 display and text advertising, should Tumblr users be…

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If you’re a user of Pandora and like to stay on top of all the new music, you should be pretty excited now. Pandora is launching a new station that will allow US users to preview an album a week before release date. The new station is called “Pandora Premieres,” and it will feature albums more »

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]]> http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121338/pandora-premiere-allows-u-s-users-to-preview-albums-a-week-before-release/feed/ 0 Flickr Makes a Comeback With New Design and 1 Terabyte of Free Storagehttp://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121296/flickr-makes-a-comeback-with-new-design-and-1-terabyte-of-free-storage/ http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121296/flickr-makes-a-comeback-with-new-design-and-1-terabyte-of-free-storage/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 22:19:02 +0000 Jeremy Hill http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/?p=121296 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 »

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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 »

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]]> http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121296/flickr-makes-a-comeback-with-new-design-and-1-terabyte-of-free-storage/feed/ 0 Yahoo Buys Tumblr for $1.1 Billion, Exodus of Users to WordPress Beginshttp://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121247/yahoo-buys-tumblr-for-1-1-billion-exodus-of-users-to-wordpress-begins/ http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121247/yahoo-buys-tumblr-for-1-1-billion-exodus-of-users-to-wordpress-begins/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:01:36 +0000 Arnold Zafra http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/?p=121247 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 »

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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, Ms. Mayer assures Tumblr users that Yahoo will not screw things up by way of this acquisition. As such, Tumblr will continue to operate independently from Yahoo. Tumblr’s current CEO David Karp will retain his post. And everything else that Tumblr has laid down will push through as planned, includnig roadmap, team, wite and irrevereance. What Yahoo will do is simply to help Tumblr get even better and faster, according to Ms. Mayer.

To do this, the Yahoo Chief said that Tumblr can use Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help users in discovering creators, bloggers and content. For its part, Tumblr is bringing along 50 billion blog post to Yahoo’s media network and search experiences. Some say, this is by way of advertising revenues…

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]]> http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121247/yahoo-buys-tumblr-for-1-1-billion-exodus-of-users-to-wordpress-begins/feed/ 0 Check Your Email for an Invite to the New Google Mapshttp://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121178/check-your-email-for-an-invite-to-the-new-google-maps/ http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121178/check-your-email-for-an-invite-to-the-new-google-maps/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 17:00:34 +0000 Jeremy Hill http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/?p=121178 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 »

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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 and see if there’s one waiting for you.

We’ve gotten very used to the now-old version of Google…

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]]> http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121178/check-your-email-for-an-invite-to-the-new-google-maps/feed/ 0 Rumor: Yahoo Allegedly Acquiring Tumblrhttp://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121158/rumor-yahoo-allegedly-acquiring-tumblr/ http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121158/rumor-yahoo-allegedly-acquiring-tumblr/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 15:33:12 +0000 Christina Jones http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/?p=121158 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 »

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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 »

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]]> http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121158/rumor-yahoo-allegedly-acquiring-tumblr/feed/ 0 Google Hangouts Plans to Include SMS Messaging and Outgoing Calls ‘Soon’http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121116/google-hangouts-plans-to-include-sms-messaging-and-outgoing-calls-soon/ http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121116/google-hangouts-plans-to-include-sms-messaging-and-outgoing-calls-soon/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 18:41:16 +0000 Matthew Marchesano http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/?p=121116 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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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]]> http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121098/heres-what-a-few-google-glass-prototypes-looked-like-photos/feed/ 0 Samsung Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note II and HTC One on Sprint Can Now Use Google Wallethttp://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121094/samsung-galaxy-s4-galaxy-note-ii-and-htc-one-on-sprint-can-now-use-google-wallet/ http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121094/samsung-galaxy-s4-galaxy-note-ii-and-htc-one-on-sprint-can-now-use-google-wallet/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 14:55:47 +0000 Matthew Marchesano http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/?p=121094 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 »

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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 »

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