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 »

Facebook pushed out an update to its Android app Friday, introducing a new layout for Pages, new stickers for messages, and an update to Facebook Home. The new Pages layout presents the Directions, Check-In and Like buttons in a more accessible location, and messages sent through the app can now use the stickers already available more »

Tumblr has seen tremendous growth over the last year, and is drawing apps and platforms to better optimize the blogging and social experience. Most recently, Babblr an in-dashboard chat client was released for users to chat with friends directly in Tumblr. “As big fans of Tumblr, we love all it has to offer, but like more »

I just couldn’t see this one slip by without a proper write-up. Also, this review serves me as an excuse to embarrass my co-worker while on the clock (continue reading please) — and well, to be blunt if you will, because Snoop Doggy Dogg is and has always been awesome. Launched on Tuesday, the Snoop more »

With Path’s recent update and now Facebook’s latest launch, it seems stickers aren’t dead. Facebook has added stickers to its arsenal of emoticons for Facebook Messenger. They were already released in the main Facebook for iOS app, and are now available for the messaging app. Android users had first dibs on this new feature. The more »