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It's official: Yahoo has purchased popular blogging platform Tumblr for more than a billion dollars - $1.1bn to be exact.

Jim Graves, the DFLer who is again challenging U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in the 2014 election, issued the results of a Public Policy Polling survey showing him with a 2 percentage-point lead over Bachmann, 47-45 if the election had been held May 15, 2013, the day of the survey.

Its time for new TV series announcements and we've got word on some of the shows you'll watch this fall.

With a new episode launching, the PBS Digital Studios series "Beat Making Lab" completes its second video and music travelogue, in which musicians and educators Stephen Levitin and Pierce Freelon explore beatmaking and electronic dance music in Portobelo, Panama.

YouTube already does a good job of dominating our free time, but this week it really wants us to slack off at work by kicking off YouTube Comedy Week .

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.

PREPARE to get annihilated! A new film trailer for Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's ale-inspired sci-fi comedy The World's End is due to drop later this week.

Justin Bieber's "Baby" has surpassed Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" as the highest-certified single of all time.

Before I crack on to Part 2 I would like to quickly cover the minor improvements we made since Part 1 of this AI series.

Freedom activist Adam Kokesh of Adam vs. the Man was violently dragged from a "Smoke Down Prohibition" protest in Philadelphia just a few hours ago.

The best way I can advise anybody to catch up on this story is to view several YouTube videos that this movie producer has put up regarding Project 23 and the movie trailer for Boys at the Bar.

Dunlop motorcycle announces additional social media channels BUFFALO, N.Y. - Dunlop motorcycle has expanded its social media with a variety of additional ways for North American motorcycle riders to interact with the popular tire brand online.

Craig Dillon, who is studying film and TV production at the Colchester Institute, has seen a boom in hits on his YouTube channel.

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, announces the first four catalog titles to be released digitally in response to the enthusiasm of music fans voting online at LegacyRecordingsVault.com . The four LP titles now available for purchase as digital downloads mark the first of a monthly series of albums to be released ... (more)

At my son's music recital last week, the 4th-graders performed a hand-clapping, footstomping version of Queen's " We will rock you ." They followed it up with a rendition of Green Day's " Boulevard of Broken Dreams ," with its disturbing and emotional lyrics: I thought of this when I watched Chris Hadfield's self-produced cover of David Bowie's ... (more)

Microsoft's first commercials for its Surface tablets emphasized the optional keyboard covers, though little focus was placed on the features of the tablet itself.

YouTube, owned by corporate giant Google, has banned our video discussing the corporate ownership of patents on human genes.

Earlier this month, a Kansas City police officer trying to pull a fallen tree from the road fell to the ground in the process when a branch broke.

May 15, 2013 - NEW YORK -- Monday, May 27, 2013 -- New York, NY - Celebrity Disk Jockey, DJ Cruze grants full access into his life in the Upcoming Three-Part "DJ Cruze Diary" to be released bi-weekly, beginning May 27th on YouTube and the DJ Cruze Blog at www.djcruze.com. Self-Proclaimed "The Come UP Prince," DJ Cruze aims to convey a general ... (more)

Google has completed deals with Sony Entertainment and Universal Music Group to launch two parallel streaming music services, according to several reports.