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It's official!

Internet staple Yahoo has agreed to buy the ever-popular blogging site, Tumblr, for a whopping $1.1 billion!!

That price tag makes this major deal the LARGEST acquisition of a social media company in YEARS, overshadowing Facebook's $1 billion purchase of Instagram last year.

The purchase was made by Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer in an effort to make the fading company appeal to a younger crowd.

With over 108 million blogs, Tumblr will (hopefully) push Yahoo into the forefront of the social networking and smart phone revolution.

But don't worry guys! Your fave blogging site will not change TOO much.

In an open letter to loyal followers, Tumblr founder David Karp said:

Tags: blogging, david karp, marissa mayer, smart phone, social media, tumblr, yahoo

Get ready music lovers! There’s a new music fest this year and it sounds AHmazing!

At SXSW in Austin, Texas, Yahoo! announced the very first On The Road festival, which will feature Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar and fun., and it may be coming to a city near you!

That’s right! Just as the name suggests, this baby is mobile and will hit 21 different cities across the US and Europe from May 3rd to July 14th.

On The Road kicks off in New York City and will end in London at the Yahoo! Wireless Festival, where attendees will also get to see headliners such as Justin Timberlake and Frank Ocean!

We were sold at Jay-Z, but if you still need convincing, it will also feature The Lumineers, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and Imagine Dragons!

Make sure to get your ticket before they’re all sold out!

[Image via Jeff Daly/Peter Kaminski/WENN.]

Tags: frank ocean, fun, headliners, imagine dragons, jay z, justin timberlake, kendrick lamar, london, macklemore and ryan lewis, music festival, new york city, on the road, sxsw, the lumineers, yahoo

Kim Kardashian is back where she likes it the most — on top!!!

Yahoo! has released its annual Year In Review where it sums up the top stories and trends of the millions of users whom search on Yahoo!

And one of our FAVORITE reality television stars seems to be on the minds of A LOT of people!

Some of the other most searched names on the top ten list were:

Lindsay Lohan, Jennifer Lopez, Kate Middleton, and Whitney Houston!!!

That is a lot of star power, baby!!!!

But when it comes to getting noticed in 2012, no one was able to topple Queen Kim - take a bow girl!

P.S. Check out the rest of the top Yahoo searches of 2012 way down (below) !!!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: 2012, kim kardashian, lohan, lopez, middleton, obama, politics, reality television, search, star, top ten, upton, yahoo

You can have a seat now, Pandora!

Spotify and Yahoo formally announced a blessed union of aural bliss.

Soon, Yahoo's Media Network will begin integrating Spotify software into their website!

This is great news for those who love to chow down at their all-you-can-hear musical buffet because the conjoining could very well make Spotify the dominant streaming music provider!

Sweet!

Now we can finally stream The Beatles, Metallica, and AC/DC on Spotify, right?

RIGHT?

Sorry, on-demand audiophiles — Spotify’s vast catalogue still has a few major holes.

Thankfully, Justin Bieber's entire discography is still at our finger tips!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: acdc, business blitz, itunes, metallica, spottily, the beatles, yahoo

PEOPLE! The internet is NOT A PLACE FOR FIGHTING!!

Ok…maybe it is…but Yahoo and Facebook should be playing nice!

Yahoo is suing the pants off of Facebook for allegedly infringing upon TWELVE of its patents.

The internet portal has been fighting

Tags: copyright, facebook, infringement, internet, legal matters, patent, yahoo

Google is just the latest company to throw their hat in the Hulu ring.

Along with Microsoft and Yahoo, Google has been added to the list of potential buyers interested in purchasing Hulu, which is currently co-owned by Disney, News Corp., NBC Universal and Providence Equity Partners.

If bidders go high enough, analysts say that Hulu could receive about $2 billion-$3 billion in the deal.

Whoa. That's some major dough. If Google takes over Hulu, we wonder how that will affect their deal with YouTube??

Tags: billions, deal, google, hulu, microsoft, yahoo

Did Google, YouTube, Apple, AOL, Ebay, Netflix, Facebook, Yahoo, and more violate a patent without permission??

That's what Interval Licensing LLC's Paul Allen says. He's claiming that Interval provided the initial research funding for Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, which basically "resulted in Google." He also says that all the above websites used his Internet browsing technology, a patent in which he owns, between the years 2000 and 2004 and is now suing them, asking for unspecified damages, as well as an injunction that would prevent the websites from using his search engine technology or "a royalty for post-judgment infringement."

Crazy!!

Could this mean a huge change is coming in the way we use the Internet??

Inneresting.

Tags: aol, facebook, google, interval licensing, lawsuit, patent, paul allen, yahoo, youtube