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Humans of NY is Tumblr founder David Karp's favorite site. HONY's Brandon Stanton and the Webby Awards Director are positive about the deal.

Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.

Yahoo is investing big time in the social space. After some speculation, the Internet giant revealed on Monday that it has purchased popular blogging and social media network Tumblr for $1.1 billion.

A news headline about the Tumblr sale to Yahoo scrolls on a building in New York's Times Square, May 20, 2013.

"Mad Money" Research Director Nicole Urken sat down with her brother, TheStreet's Ross Kenneth Urken, to help Jim Cramer understand Tumblr , the social media blogging site being bought by Yahoo! Cramer, who had mistakenly interpreted Tumblr as a type of drink, wasn't aware of its purpose -- or its appeal.

Yesterday Kara Swisher of AllThingsD reported that "Tumblr CEO David Karpa will stay at Yahoo for four years at least and retain a lot of control over the servicea " and the official release confirmed, "Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business.

Spark Capital is located on Boston's swank Newbury Street. But in recent weeks it has taken up some very ritzy media real estate for the $450 million it raised in the first quarter of 2013 and its leading role in keeping Tumblr going long enough for Yahoo to pay $1.1 billion in cash according to the New York Times for the blogging service.

U.S. stocks were set to dip at the open on Monday as investors search for catalysts after major U.S. equity indexes closed a fourth consecutive week of gains Friday.

Experts say the officer who killed a Long Island college student and a home invasion suspect on Friday was confronted with a split-second choice.

The Supreme Court is taking a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open meetings in an upstate New York town.

The plucky, 26-year-old Tumblr founder has sold his popular blogging platform to tech behemoth Yahoo for an amazing $1.1 billion, news site AllThingsD reported Sunday.

Stock futures were little changed Monday after the S&P 500 booked its fourth week of gains and investors awaited more clarity on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy outlook.

There is no doubt that QR codes have gotten a bad name amongst the media cognoscenti.

Yahoo! Inc. 's board has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr Inc., a service that hosts 108 million blogs, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.

Yahoo's board of directors has reportedly okayed a $1.1 billion purchase of the popular blogging site Tumblr, approving Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's boldest move to date in her efforts to revitalize the struggling Internet giant.

Founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David Karp, Tumblr had more than 13 billion global page views in the past month.

For the fourth week in a row , the stock market climbed to fresh record highs last week on signs of improvement in the U.S. economy.

Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products.

Remember GeoCities, an online community like Tumblr? Founded in 1994, GeoCities was the third most visited site on the World Wide Web by 1999 when it was bought by Yahoo for $3.57 billion in stock, according to Wikipedia.

Two years ago, Tumblr's overabundance of porn was well-documented . Today, nothing has changed: it's still a JPEG sex bonanza.