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Tumbler could be the engine that drives Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) out of the slump it has been witnessing in its core business. Victor Anthony of Topeka Capital Markets was on CNBC to discuss the outlook for Yahoo in 2015 and the big opportunity that Tumblr represents. What Makes You...

Okay, so Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer overslept and was two hours late for a meeting.  An important meeting. Still, she is likely not the first CEO of a major corporation to oversleep and miss part of a meeting. She is however, Marissa Mayer, and...

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO, Marissa Mayer wants to reverse the company’s decline in advertising revenue. She thinks the best way to do it is through a stable of digital magazines on a variety of topics including food, technology, movies and travel. Mayer’s goal is to get people...

Saying Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was too rooted in hardware at the expense of data and the cloud, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures predicted Monday that the company wouldn’t even be in the top three tech companies by 2020, according to TechCrunch. Wilson spoke at the TechCrunch Disrupt...

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) definitely wants in on the popular – and potentially lucrative – photo sharing social media action. New changes the company just made to Flickr with version 3.0 for iOS and Android, were designed to do the trick. Changes include 14 different live photo filters, including...

Recently on Benzinga's PreMarket Prep, Eric Jackson, managing partner at Ironfire Capital, predicted that the Alibaba filing for an IPO will come later this month. Jackson predicted the actual IPO will be in September. Jackson highlighted that many analysts and investors believe that Yahoo...

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has acquired more than 100 companies since 1997 -- was yours one of them? If not, what would it take for you to build a startup that Yahoo cannot resist? From social companies like Vizify and recruiting firms like Distill to image recognition enterprises like LookFlow and IQ...

As the war to acquire talent, users and growth rages on in Silicon Valley, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) announced its latest salvo with the $16 billion dollar acquisition of WhatsApp. The news was broken in an SEC Form 8-K filed after the close Wednesday. The deal, which will lead WhatsApp to become a...

Investors might want to reconsider their plans for Twitter. Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, is not satisfied with the information that Twitter has provided before its initial public offering. "I think the S-1 filing has done a very poor job,"...

For the first time since May 2011, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) had more visitors to its sites than Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), according to comScore based on data from its Media Metrix service for July 2013. Yahoo hosted 196.6 million unique visitors, up 20 percent compared to July 2012. Google saw 192.3...

BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) might be up for sale. The company is reportedly looking for a large, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)-type company to take the helm through a massive buyout. If all goes as planned, the deal would be similar to the one Motorola scored when Google acquired its electronics...

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has officially acquired Qwiki. Promoted as an app for "one tap storytelling" on the iPhone, Qwiki automatically merges photos, videos and music into one mobile movie. On the app's official blog, Qwiki founder Doug Imbruce said that the program will "live on as a standalone...

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer and Tumblr CEO David Karp sat down on CNBC's Squawk on the Street to discuss Yahoo's acquisition of the popular blogging service. Mayer started out by saying that she wants Yahoo to move fast as a company in terms of shipping products and making decisions,...

Monday was a big day for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). First, it announced that it was buying social blogging platform, Tumblr for $1.1 billion in an all cash deal. Investors would agree that a billion dollar acquisition is plenty of news for one day but Yahoo! had more to announce. Yahoo CEO...