Tumblr CEO David Karp announced today at that the Michael Arrington-led CrunchFund has joined as an investor in his popular blogging company.
Karp was speaking with CrunchFund partner MG Siegler on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt event in New York. …
Just a week into Tumblr’s grand money-making scheme, the company’s head of brand strategy has packed his bags and hit the road.
Matt Hackett, who was the trendy blogging platform’s head of brand strategy and marketing since September 2011, announced …
More than five years, $125 million in funding, 55 million users, and 22 billion blog posts later, trendy blogging platform Tumblr is finally getting serious about making money — just on its own terms.
The New York-based company announced Wednesday …
Those API wizards at Gnip are tearing it up: First they added Facebook Graph support. Then they got exclusive rights to redistribute the Twitter Firehose. And now they’re announcing another exclusive deal with Tumblr.
“I’m thrilled to announce that the …
Spotify continues to push the boundaries of streaming music. This morning it released the “Play” button, a widget that lets people embed songs from Spotify on any website. You need at least a free Spotify account to listen, which will …
Hot blog-baker Tumblr has cooked up a zany and colorful update to its Android application.
Five-year-old, New York-based Tumblr is the go-to blogging platform for the young and hip. The company now powers more than 51 million blog sites and …
Tumblr is a massive site with a very dedicated user base. But so far the company hasn’t built a robust platform for third-party developers. That’s about to change, as the company is hiring a API lead to build relationships with …
Posterous, a blogging platform that embodies Tumblr’s simplicity, if not its stylishness, announced today it has been acquired by microblogging giant Twitter.
Posterous announced the acquisition Monday in a blog post. For now, Posterous will remain the same and the …
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This is a guest post from Dave Lifson, co-founder of Postling, a unified social media dashboard for small businesses. It originally appeared here.
I believe e-commerce can make Tumblr over $100M a year. I’ve shared my thoughts with the Tumblr …
Last year’s big fashion trend was the color block, and this year’s tech trend follows suit: It’s the square.
More precisely, it’s the big, colorful rectangle filled with a solid color (like Windows 8) or a photograph (like Pinterest).
Mondrian …
Fashion and style media company StyleCaster is just a few days away from launching a redesigned site that’s heavily influenced by social media darling Pinterest and blogging service Tumblr.
StyleCaster’s main website, Stylecaster.com, and its social channels offer news and …
Duo Security, an authentication-as-a-service company that uses your phone for two-step logins, announced today it has raised $5 million in its second round of funding.
Duo Security uses your phone as a second line of defense to keep your accounts …
Tumblr, a photo-heavy blogging platform that has attracted a lot of teens, announced today that it will ban blogs containing content that promotes anorexia, self-mutilation, and other harmful behaviors.
In a company blog post, Tumblr said that it previously did …
Lockerz, a social commerce site that debuted its a self-expression platform earlier this month, said today that it will guarantee that no other online site will be able to match its prices.
Lockerz is similar to popular online pinboard site …
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Tumblr has been spending several million dollars per month on web hosting, sources tell VentureBeat.
“You wouldn’t believe the amount they are spending just to keep the site up and running,” said a source familiar with Tumblr’s expenses. “It’s crazy …
It’s an empire state of mind. The world’s most famous musical couple has turned to New York’s Tumblr as the blogging platform of choice for showcasing the first photos of their new baby girl, Blue Ivy Carter.
Tumblr, founded by …
Tumblr founder David Karp has always dismissed the idea that Tumblr might put ads on its platform. See here, here, and just about every interview the young founder has ever given. But today, Tumblr rolled out highlighted posts, which allow …
Tumblr’s quirky blogging platform and community network reaches 120 million people every month, founder and CEO David Karp disclosed at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich Monday.
Karp, citing the startup’s latest Quantcast figures, shared that the social network …
Cloning or copycatting ideas, companies, and products is nothing new in China. Westerners, especially Americans, loathe cloning; it hurts their pride and is an insult to their creativity and hard work. The Chinese, however, love it. It comes as second …
Popular blogging platform Tumblr is out with a new feature Wednesday designed to help its growing user base send private messages to each other.
The new feature is called Fan Mail and it enables Tumblr members to send stylish messages …
