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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:Tumblr Brand Will Remain — With Mostly “Hands-Off” Product Approach by Yahoo's Mayer  —  According to numerous sources close to the situation, the Tumblr brand will continue on in the wake of its $1.1 billion acquisition by…

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:Leaked Memo Shows Barnes & Noble Bringing Web Browser And Email To Simple Touch eReaders In June  —  An upcoming update will bring a web browser, email and update store app to Barnes & Noble's super affordable Nook Simple…

Andy / TorrentFreak:RapidShare Fires 75% of its Staff After “Rogue Site” Revamp Bites  —  After its launch in 2004, RapidShare's speedy growth saw the company become one the largest file-hosting sites on the Internet.  —  However, like all sites of…

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company's Tax Avoidance Machinations In The UK  —  Google is under fire in the UK for its tax practices in the country, and a new key witness (who spoke to The Sunday Times) might…

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1 Billion Deal as Expected  —  The Yahoo board has approved a massive $1.1 billion deal to buy Tumblr.  —  Sources close to the board said the deal was a foregone conclusion and was an…

John Saroff / Saroff's Place:On Yahoo & Tumblr: “We have vision, delusion and hallucination and I want to know which one this is.”  —  “We have vision, delusion and hallucination and I want to know which one this is.”  - quote anonymously…

Wall Street / @wsj:Breaking: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the blogging site Tumblr. http://wsj.com

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:YouTube Turns Eight As Platform Surpasses More Than 100 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute  —  YouTube turns eight years old today, reminding each of us in some odd way how young or old we really are.  Remember, the company…

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:Why Yahoo Doesn't Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem  —  If you write about Tumblr as a business, you are required to note that Tumblr has a lot of porn.  —  How much porn?  You'll have to make something up, because the only…

David Pierce / The Verge:Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013  —  Android is coming to our TVs, but has Google already lost the battle for the living room?  —  It's easy to miss the Google TV booth here at I/O 2013, hidden in the corner of…

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:Behind The Scenes Of The Big Google Maps Redesign And Its Technical Challenges  —  Google unveiled its completely redesigned Google Maps product on the web at I/O 2013, and at a panel dedicated to the new Maps experience,…

Jon Russell / The Next Web:iOS and Android gaming revenue tripled that of handheld consoles in Q1 2013: App Annie  —  Research firms IDC and App Annie have again joined forces to release their second quarterly report on mobile gaming, the key takeaway…

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:With $1.5M Led By Winklevoss Capital, BitInstant Aims To Be The Go-To Site To Buy And Sell Bitcoins  —  Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin Harvard graduates who famously sparred with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of…

Sean Hollister / The Verge:How two Valve engineers walked away with the company's augmented reality glasses  —  Three months ago, celebrated video game publisher Valve did something completely out of character: it fired up to 25 workers, in what one…

Mat Honan / Wired:Welcome to Google Island  —  I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird.  The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco's Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session.  My…