New York: Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications.
The Sunnyvale, Calif, company's board of directors will meet on Sunday evening to consider approving a $1.1 billion acquisition of online content-sharing site Tumblr in a deal Mayer negotiated, according to the technology news site All Things D. The story posted late Friday cited anonymous sources.
If Yahoo Inc's board signs off, the deal could be announced on Monday.
In an invitation sent on Friday, Yahoo promised to unveil "something special" on Monday evening in New York. The event is being held in a Times Squares lounge located about two miles from Tumblr's headquarters....
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11:50 PM, May 19, 2013
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08:25 PM, May 15, 2013
May has been a month of launches for the struggling Finnish mobile phone giant. In the first 10 days of the month Nokia announced the Nokia Asha 210, Nokia Asha 501 and the Nokia Lumia 928 and today Nokia is expected to unveil a new Lumia smartphone. Will the rumours that have been doing the rounds for quite some time now turn true? Follow our live updates to know for...
01:55 PM, May 14, 2013
Dhaka: Bangladesh police on Thursday arrested the editor of the Bengali daily 'Amar Desh', a pro-opposition newspaper, on charges of sedition and inciting religious tension. Plainclothesmen picked up Mahmudur Rahman in a raid on the newspaper office at Karwan Bazar area and police said he was taken away for initial interrogation. Police said Rahman had been arrested on the basis of evidence obtained after investigations on various charges including cyber...
06:31 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Facebook is unveiling what it calls its 'new home on Android' at an event at the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters. Live updates. ...
10:27 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday pledged stern action against people found guilty of defaming Islam using the internet as right-wing Islamic parties threatened to wage an intensified street campaign against "atheist bloggers". "You (Islamic parties) do not need to go for any movement. As a Muslim, I have the responsibility to take action," Hasina said at a party meeting of her ruling Awami League, this evening. ...
02:30 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Saudi Arabia may try to end anonymity for Twitter users in the country by limiting access to the site to people who register their identification documents, the Arab News daily reported on Saturday. ...
03:32 PM, Mar 30, 2013
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05:42 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Watch the live stream and follow our live blog to be the first to know about the Samsung Galaxy S IV. ...
04:23 AM, Mar 15, 2013
Watch the live stream and follow realtime updates on our live blog on the papal conclave. ...
03:19 PM, Mar 12, 2013
This is Facebook's second high-profile product event this year, following the rollout of its social search feature in January. ...
09:39 PM, Mar 07, 2013
This is Facebook's second high-profile product event this year, following the rollout of its social search feature in January. ...
07:54 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Protesters clashed with police for the second day on Friday as the death toll rose to at least 44 from violence triggered by a death sentence given to an Islamic party leader for crimes linked to Bangladesh's 1971 independence war, police said. ...
08:00 AM, Mar 02, 2013
Realtime updates, analysis and reactions on the assembly election results in three North Eastern states of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura. ...
11:03 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Follow live updates from the Finance Minister's budget speech and analysis and reactions from experts and common people on our live blog. ...
10:59 AM, Feb 28, 2013
The Jamaat activists have been demanding punishment for bloggers who they accuse of maligning Islam. ...
08:32 AM, Feb 25, 2013
At least four people were killed and over 200 injured in Bangladesh on Friday as hundreds of Islamists clashed with police in Dhaka and other major cities demanding execution of "atheist bloggers" they accused of blasphemy. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse Islamists backed by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party whose leaders are facing trial in special tribunals for "crimes against humanity" during the 1971 liberation war against...
10:50 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis have been thronging Shahbagh, a Dhaka landmark, demanding death sentence for 1971 War criminal Abdul Quader Mollah of the Jamaat-e-Islami. Following the murder of blogger Rajib who spearheaded the agitation, the gathering has grown manifold and the sentiments have been further galvanised. CNN-IBN's senior editor Suhasini Haidar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the massive agitations in Dhaka over the 1971 War Crimes trials....
06:32 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Over one lakh protesters took to the streets in Dhaka after the murder of a blogger, demanding death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in 1971. "They have no right to do politics in our country because they are using religion in our political scenario which is total hypocrisy. The big message is we want social, economical and cultural freedom," said one protester. ...
11:36 AM, Feb 17, 2013
Over one lakh protesters took to the streets in Dhaka after the murder of a blogger, demanding death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in 1971. Protesters are also demanding the immediate arrest of the killers. ...
09:00 AM, Feb 17, 2013
