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Tumblr Now Has More Money & More Pageviews Than WordPress (Including Sequoia Money)

Financial documents and the company’s journal inform that the ammo was for $30 million, from a rattling awesome itemize of investors: Spark Capital (backers of Twitter, Aviary, GDGT, Next New Networks, and others), Union Square Ventures (backers of Etsy, Boxee, Disqus, Foursquare, GetGlue, Meetup and more) and as newborn investors, ultra-heavyweights Sequoia Capital (investors in Google, Apple, YouTube, PayPal, Zappos, RackSpace, character and some more). Tumblr has ever been hot, but when a start gets Sequoia Capital money and connections, it has entered a newborn echelon in the venture-funded school world

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E-Readers With Color Open Door for Pictures

Now publishers are making artefact in converting their large libraries of illustrated titles to e-books, hoping to cipher on the ontogeny popularity of the Apple iPad and the Nook Color and their knowledge to background books with colouration photographs and illustrations. Apple said weekday that it was ordered to attain a field near into illustrated books on Wednesday, introducing more than 100 titles to its iBookstore, an miscellanea of children’s books, picturing books and cookbooks. Some of the most favourite children’s represent books of every instance module be available, including whatever of the “Olivia” represent books, publicised by saint & Schuster.

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Facebook Wrestles With Free Speech and Civility

Dressed in Facebook’s quasi-official homogenous of jeans, a T-shirt and flip-flops, the 26-year-old Mr. Willner scarce looks same a pig on the beat. Yet he and his colleagues on Facebook’s “hate and vexation team” are conception of a realistic personnel unit live with attractive downbound noesis that is banned or violates Facebook’s cost of service.

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Everybody’s Business: Feel Free to Read This Later, on Your Phone

With our safekeeping constantly traversing the keyboard, we grass for information.

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Angry Birds, Flocking to Cellphones Everywhere

But Angry Birds, a impact mettlesome by Rovio, a diminutive Suomi company, is digit of the unlikeliest pop-culture crazes of the assemblage — and perhaps the prototypal to attain the move from radiotelephone screens to the mainstream. Angry Birds, in which the birds essay punish on the egg-stealing pigs, is meant to be easily played in the review distinction and during additional brief windows of downtime — but whatever players impact pain stopping.

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