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Send nudes, now on Tumblr, as long as it isn't porn

Steve Bennett — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 19:26:01 +0000

In a partial U-turn on its policies that were implemented in 2018, Tumblr has now updated its Community Guidelines so that nudity is once again allowed, however, porn remains off limits. Read more...

Tumblr now allows users to browse ad-free for $4.99 a month

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:30:01 +0000

Tumblr is introducing a new subscription for users that want to browse without any advertisements on its platform for $4.99 a month or a discounted price of $39.99 if they opt for a year. Read more...

Tumblr Tip Jar is the second monetization tool for content creators after Post+ subscription

Alap Naik Desai — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:16:01 +0000

Tumblr is offering Tumblr Tip Jar to help content creators earn from their individual posts. The new content monetization tool follows Post+, a subscription service for exclusive content. Read more...

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News Staff — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 16:46:02 +0000

With today's highlighted deal you could master online marketing on seven platforms with six hours of content on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, & Tumblr Ads. Read more...

Automattic buys Tumblr from Verizon for reportedly less than $20 million

Rich Woods — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:26:02 +0000

WordPress.com owner Automattic is picking up Tumblr from Verizon, for a reported price of less than $20 million, a sharp decline in Tumblr's value since Yahoo bought it for $1.1 billion. Read more...

Verizon is reportedly putting Tumblr up for sale [Update]

Jay Bonggolto — Thu, 02 May 2019 23:22:01 +0000

Verizon is reportedly looking to sell micro-blogging site Tumblr as it struggles to improve the finances of its Oath family of media properties, which comprise Yahoo and AOL. No deal is in sight yet. Read more...

Child pornography is the reason why Tumblr vanished from Apple's App Store

Jay Bonggolto — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:42:01 +0000

Tumblr's app for iOS disappeared from the Apple App Store since late last week for an undisclosed reason. Now, the site confirmed that the app was removed from that store due to child pornography. Read more...

Tumblr targets hate speech, violence and sexual harassment with new community guidelines

João Carrasqueira — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:26:01 +0000

The social network is updating its rules for content shared on the platform starting next month, including clearer and more straightforward wording regarding what is allowed and what isn't. Read more...

You won't be able to access Tumblr, Yahoo services from AT&T email addresses from June 30

Gurkaran Singh — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:16:01 +0000

The move that caused an uproar among the net-neutrality proponents turned out to be a simple case of a deal winding down. The Verizon-owned Yahoo is required to kill all of its prior corporate deals. Read more...

Tumblr claimed that a data breach affected 'a set' of users, turns out to be over 60m

Jack Wilkinson — Mon, 30 May 2016 23:16:01 +0000

Microblogging site Tumblr was the subject of a data breach back in 2013. The company claimed it affected 'a set' of users. An analysis shows that 'set' was actually over 60 million passwords. Read more...

Yahoo will axe 15% of jobs by year's end

Paul Hill — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 04:32:01 +0000

CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, has outlined a new plan which will re-focus the company on its core business offerings. Unfortunately the plan sees 15% of its workforce being cut. Read more...

Tumblr is paranoid about pirates, takes drastic actions

Jerry Grey — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:24:01 +0000

Tumblr appears to be censoring anything related to or tagged with the term "torrent" in searches, and banning users under a new strict "three strikes" policy in an attempt to rid the site of pirates. Read more...

Tumblr overtakes Instagram as fastest-growing social platform

Usama Jawad — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:42:01 +0000

A quite surprising report by Global Web Index dictates that Tumblr is now the fastest growing social platform. Other social networks like Facebook are currently facing strong competition. Read more...

Tumblr users can now setup two-factor authentication on their accounts

Shreyas Gandhe — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 04:19:17 +0000

Under Yahoo, Tumblr has become the latest web-based service to offer two factor authentication for logins in order to provide additional security to users and counter unsolicited login attempts. Read more...

Over 5,000 websites signed up for "The Day We Fight Back" protest against mass spying

John Callaham — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:49:53 +0000

Over 5,000 websites, including Reddit, Tumblr, Mozilla and others, will participate in "The Day We Fight Back" on Tuesday as a protest against mass spying operations from agencies like the NSA. Read more...

Yahoo Mail accounts accessed with stolen passwords

Shreyas Gandhe — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:33:07 +0000

Yahoo has revealed through their official blog that passwords for some accounts have been stolen and used to gain access to Yahoo Mail in an organized effort from unknown sources. Read more...

Tumblr's Windows Phone app updated to support new languages

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 28 May 2013 20:34:02 +0000

Tumblr has updated its Windows Phone app to support more languages: Dutch, English, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Turkish as well as several dialect variants of those languages. Read more...

Flickr revamped, comes with 1TB of free storage

John Callaham — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:12:07 +0000

Yahoo announced today at it's press event that it will be launching a new version of its Flickr online photo service, which will include a new UI and a whopping 1 TB of free photo and video storage. Read more...

Thousands of Tumblr blogs migrate to Wordpress after Yahoo deal

Max Slater-Robins — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:28:35 +0000

Many Tumblr users are not happy that Yahoo have stepped in to buy the company, despite reports that it was finically unsound, and it looks like some users are voting with their feet. Read more...

Yahoo acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:18:32 +0000

It was just announced that Yahoo has bought Tumblr for approximately $1.1 billion dollars, close to what earlier rumors had predicted. Tumblr is one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world Read more...

Report: Yahoo board approves $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition

John Callaham — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:36:56 +0000

A new report claims that Yahoo's board of directors has approved its acquisition of Tumblr for a whopping $1.1 billion, with Yahoo expected to officially reveal the deal tomorrow. Read more...

Yahoo holding special event on Monday amid Tumblr acquisition rumours

Ben Buffone — Sat, 18 May 2013 01:17:31 +0000

Yahoo have announced a 'product-focused' event will take place on Monday amid rumours of a possible acquisition of Tumblr. Will the rumours prove to be true or is this unrelated? Read more...

Yahoo reportedly wants to buy Tumblr; is scared of Facebook

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:44:39 +0000

Yahoo supposedly wants the buy the super popular Tumblr to invigorate its user base and get a foothold in mobile marketing. However, they are scared of competing with Facebook for Tumblr's graces. Read more...

Tumblr arrives on Windows Phone with Live Tile integration

Ben Buffone — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:48:31 +0000

Tumblr for Windows Phone 8 has finally been released on the Windows Phone store. Boasting over 100 million blogs, the release is sure to please many users, both new and existing. Read more...

Tumblr pages being hacked with racist messages

John Callaham — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:35:31 +0000

The hacker group known as GNAA has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that has infected thousands of Tumblr sites with racist messages. Tumblr is still working to fix the issue. Read more...

Dell CEO's daughter in Twitter security scare

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:42:55 +0000

How do you control your habits within the social networking universe? That's the sort of question Michael Dell has probably been asking his daughter following her postings on Twitter and Tumblr. Read more...

Tumblr moving to paid advertising

Stefano Elia — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:41:16 +0000

The micro-blogging website, tumblr, has announced a somewhat controversial move to switch to paid advertising. Read more...

Mistyped tag leads to exposure of Tumblr DB passwords and API keys

Brad Sams — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:02:35 +0000

Sometimes it doesn't matter how robust your security is or how diligently you maintain patches to your system as a single human can always be your weakest point in the operation. Tumblr learned this the... Read more...

Tumblr now back online after being offline 24 hours

Kelly Hodgkins — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:18:41 +0000

Sweet relief everyone, Tumblr confirmed that it is now back online and all blogs on the service are up and running again. For those that have been living under a rock, Tumblr went down on... Read more...

Tumblr and 4chan war results in both going offline

Tom Dwyer — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:41:30 +0000

Today was the date 4chan had set to take down popular blogging website Tumblr, although earlier today 4chan itself went down as reported by Techcrunch. For days now, the tension has been rising and today 4chan... Read more...