Last year, Facebook marked a new milestone in its nine-year history. It lost users. While the network did pass the 1 billion monthly active user threshold globally in 2012, Facebook also lost 1.4 million U.S. monthly active users late last year, a small but symbolic decline. Nor was it the only network experiencing a slowdown. After years of double-digit expansion, ...

If Yahoo! buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion — a deal that may get approved as soon as Sunday night according to AllThingsD — one fact is likely to get cited a lot when the deal is announced: That Tumblr had only $13 million in revenue in 2012, after taking $125 million in investor funding.With lousy economics like that, why would ...

If Yahoo! buys Tumblr for $1 billion, as some reports have suggested, one fact is likely to get cited a lot when the deal is announced: That Tumblr had only $13 million in revenue in 2012, after taking $125 million in investor funding.With lousy economics like that, why would Yahoo even consider such a high price?It's worth comparing a putative ...

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