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Project-based learning teaches students so much more than content, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“We want to cover the curriculum much deeper and to find all those little hidden things that can allow the child to connect it to other learning in their head.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have content, of course, oral communication, written communication, technology, we even have aesthetics as one of our learning goals,” Zamora said. “And we grade them on all of those. So a project isn’t just all about content, it’s about all of these different components.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transitioning to this model was hard for students who had gone through six years of traditional elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t really used to collaborating every single day,” Zamora said. “And they weren’t used to creating and learning through projects, rather than the project being at the end and more of the assessment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a key part of Bulldog Tech and the project-based model. Projects aren’t an extra thing to do after a student has learned the content: They are the vehicle for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s all new stuff for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eesd.org/\">Evergreen School District\u003c/a>, which is spending almost $400,000 over four years to be part of a nationwide nonprofit consortium of schools called \u003ca href=\"http://www.newtechnetwork.org/\">The New Tech Network\u003c/a>. The money covers iPads, training for teachers and access to a robust online system that tracks work and grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Tech Network, which was founded 15 years ago, is taking its schoolwide project-based model \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/what-it-takes-to-become-a-project-based-school/\">national\u003c/a>. The organization, which offers a paid program for schools to use its model, began with a flagship school in Napa and has grown to 120 schools in 18 states, most of which are public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network has grown not only in size but also in reputation. President Obama \u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2013/0509/In-Texas-Obama-lauds-New-Tech-high-school.-Model-for-the-future-video\">visited Manor New Tech High School\u003c/a> in Texas last month as part of an effort to promote an education agenda focused on producing graduates that can compete in today’s global economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers at Bulldog are connected to other New Tech Network teachers around the country through the online system, so they can share lesson plans, project ideas and lessons learned. A big part of the New Tech service is providing each school with a coach. At Bulldog Tech, teachers transferred from other parts of the district and had never taught using project-based learning. The coach helped them understand how to craft effective projects, work together and build a culture of trust, respect and responsibility among the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98980\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-98980\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Bulldog2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Some Bulldog Tech student projects, ready for presentation to prospective sixth grade parents. (Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Bulldog Tech student projects, ready for presentation to prospective sixth grade parents. (Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students at Bulldog Tech like the new model. They get to use technology like iPads in almost all their projects, and teachers even allow them to use their \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/mobile-learning/\">cell phones for work in class\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got to replicate a form of one of the Roman buildings called the Hagia Sophia in, I guess you can call it a video game, called Mindcraft,” explained 13-year-old Jasmine Le. She even designed a roller coaster so visitors to her building could get a 360-degree view – a little creative flare that distinguishes the model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more importantly, it’s the kind of memorable learning that defines this method.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to cover the curriculum much deeper and to find all those little hidden things that can allow the child to connect it to other learning in their head,” said Bulldog site director Randy Hollenkamp. “And once they do that, it’s the kind of learning they never forget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are pitfalls. 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Eastside Union High School District, where Bulldog Tech students would go after completing 8th grade, is even looking at opening several New Tech high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of educators out there hungry for this, because Common Core is pushing them, but also because it’s common sense,” Hollenkamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.corestandards.org/\">Common Core\u003c/a> is a new set of educational standards California has adopted. It puts more emphasis on problem-solving and explaining the process behind answers. 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Projects aren’t an extra thing to do after a student has learned the content: They are the vehicle for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s all new stuff for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eesd.org/\">Evergreen School District\u003c/a>, which is spending almost $400,000 over four years to be part of a nationwide nonprofit consortium of schools called \u003ca href=\"http://www.newtechnetwork.org/\">The New Tech Network\u003c/a>. The money covers iPads, training for teachers and access to a robust online system that tracks work and grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Tech Network, which was founded 15 years ago, is taking its schoolwide project-based model \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/what-it-takes-to-become-a-project-based-school/\">national\u003c/a>. The organization, which offers a paid program for schools to use its model, began with a flagship school in Napa and has grown to 120 schools in 18 states, most of which are public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network has grown not only in size but also in reputation. President Obama \u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2013/0509/In-Texas-Obama-lauds-New-Tech-high-school.-Model-for-the-future-video\">visited Manor New Tech High School\u003c/a> in Texas last month as part of an effort to promote an education agenda focused on producing graduates that can compete in today’s global economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers at Bulldog are connected to other New Tech Network teachers around the country through the online system, so they can share lesson plans, project ideas and lessons learned. A big part of the New Tech service is providing each school with a coach. At Bulldog Tech, teachers transferred from other parts of the district and had never taught using project-based learning. The coach helped them understand how to craft effective projects, work together and build a culture of trust, respect and responsibility among the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98980\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-98980\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Bulldog2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Some Bulldog Tech student projects, ready for presentation to prospective sixth grade parents. (Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Bulldog Tech student projects, ready for presentation to prospective sixth grade parents. (Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students at Bulldog Tech like the new model. 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Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Thursday that the top secret court order for telephone records is a three-month renewal of an ongoing practice. She spoke to reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sweeping roundup of U.S. phone records has been going on for years and was a key part of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program, a U.S. official said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House offered no immediate on-the-record comment. A senior administration official did not confirm the \u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian newspaper report\u003c/a>, written by former Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald, that the NSA has been collecting the records, but the authenticity of the document was not disputed by the White House. The administration official insisted on anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order was granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25 and is good until July 19, the Guardian reported. The order requires Verizon, one of the nation's largest telecommunications companies, on an \"ongoing, daily basis,\" to give the NSA information on all landline and mobile telephone calls of Verizon Business in its systems, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>Read the Guardian report by Glenn Greenwald\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Read the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Order\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/confirmed-nsa-spying-millions-americans\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Frontier Foundation Responds\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The newspaper said the document, a copy of which it had obtained, shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of U.S. citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk, regardless of whether the people are suspected of any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disclosure raised a number of questions: What was the government looking for? 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The full details of that program remain unknown, but one aspect was to monitor massive numbers of incoming and outgoing U.S. calls to look for suspicious patterns, said an official familiar with the program. That official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss it publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After The New York Times revealed the existence of that wiretapping program, the roundup continued under authority granted in the USA Patriot Act, the official said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official did not know if the program was continuous or whether it stopped and restarted at times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official had not seen the court order released by the Guardian newspaper but said it was consistent with similar authorizations the Justice Department has received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verizon spokesman Ed McFadden said Wednesday the company had no comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NSA had no immediate comment. The agency is sensitive to perceptions that it might be spying on Americans. In a brochure it distributes, which includes a DVD for reporters to view video that it provides for public relations purposes, it pledges that the agency \"is unwavering in its respect for U.S. laws and Americans' civil liberties — and its commitment to accountability,\" and says, \"Earning the American public's trust is paramount.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verizon Communications Inc. listed 121 million customers in its first-quarter earnings report this April — 98.9 million wireless customers, 11.7 million residential phone lines and about 10 million commercial lines. The court order didn't specify which customers' records were being tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms of the order, the phone numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as are location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. 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Carney said Obama has long favored proposals “to ensure that American companies cannot use off-shore profit shifting to avoid paying taxes,” including a proposal for a minimum tax on foreign earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a major priority of his because he thinks it is inexplicable that our tax code would actually be written in a way that rewards companies for taking jobs and profits offshore, and thereby penalizes companies for doing what we want them to do, which is create jobs and opportunity here in the United States,” Carney said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks largely to the iPhone, Apple is one of the world’s most profitable companies. It earned $41.7 billion in calendar year 2012. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Marcy Gordon and Peter Svensson, AP Business Writers\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate dragged massively profitable Apple Inc. into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in U.S. taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97733\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/21/apple-cook-faces-senate-questions-on-taxes/us-politics-tax-it-apple/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97733\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-97733 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Apple-CEO-Tim-Cook-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"US-POLITICS-TAX-IT-APPLE\" width=\"160\" height=\"243\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies before the U.S. Senate. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cook said the subsidiaries have nothing to do with reducing its U.S. taxes, a message he struggled to convey to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pay all the taxes we owe — every single dollar,” Cook said. “We don’t depend on tax gimmicks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first time an Apple CEO testified before Congress. Cook did so voluntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The senate subcommittee released a report Monday that held up Apple as an example of the legal tax avoidance made possible by the U.S. tax code. It estimates that Apple avoided at least $3.5 billion in U.S. federal taxes in 2011 and $9 billion in 2012 by using its tax strategy, and described a complex setup involving Irish subsidiaries as being a key element of this strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cook said the Irish subsidiaries don’t reduce the company’s U.S. taxes at all. Rather, the company avoids paying the 35 percent federal tax rate on profits made overseas by not bringing those profits back to the U.S., a practice it shares with other multinationals.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s enormous, iPhone-fueled profits mean that it has more cash stashed overseas than any other company: $102 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook reaffirmed Apple’s position that given the current U.S. tax rate, it has no intention of bringing that cash back to the U.S. Like other companies, it has a responsibility to shareholders to pay as little as possible in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means cash-rich Apple is, paradoxically, borrowing money to finance dividends and buybacks for its shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In effect, Apple is holding out for a lower corporate tax rate, and Cook spent some of his time in the spotlight to advocate for one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook, who is more accustomed to commanding a stage in front of investors and techies than facing a congressional committee, took a defensive tone with his opening statement. He punched out words when stressing the 600,000 jobs that the company supports while adding that Apple is the nation’s largest corporate taxpayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Cook said he was happy to appear to be able to give Apple’s side of the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m saying it’s who we are as people. … Wherever we are, we’re an American company,” Cook insisted when asked about Apple’s use of affiliate companies in Ireland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He appeared with Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Head of Tax Operations Phillip Bullock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the panel’s chairman, said Apple’s use of loopholes in the U.S. tax code is unique among multinational corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple uses five companies located in Ireland to carry out its tax strategy, according to the Congressional report. The companies are located at the same address in Cork, Ireland, and they share members of their boards of directors. While all five companies were incorporated in Ireland, only two of them also have tax residency in that country. That means the other three aren’t legally required to pay taxes in Ireland because they aren’t managed or controlled in that country, in Apple’s view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says Apple capitalizes on a difference between U.S. and Irish rules regarding tax residency. In Ireland, a company must be managed and controlled in the country to be a tax resident. Under U.S. law, a company is a tax resident of the country in which it was established. Therefore, the Apple companies aren’t tax residents of Ireland or the U.S., since they weren’t incorporated in the U.S., in Apple’s view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple is exploiting an absurdity,” Levin said at the start of the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The core of Levin’s argument is that Apple has shifted intellectual property rights, like patents, to its Irish subsidiaries, which means other divisions pay royalties to those subsidiaries for their sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intellectual property rights, like patents, are Apple’s “golden goose,” Levin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple executives countered that the main company has kept the rights for North and South America, so only royalties for overseas sales flow to the Irish subsidiaries. Also, the Irish companies pay for some of research and development costs incurred at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What Apple is doing is pretty mainstream,” said accounting expert Robert Willens, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spotlight on Apple’s tax strategy comes at a time of fevered debate in Washington over whether and how to raise revenues to help reduce the federal deficit. Many Democrats complain that the government is missing out on billions of dollars because companies are stashing profits abroad and avoiding taxes. Republicans want to cut the corporate tax rate of 35 percent and ease the tax burden on money that U.S. companies make abroad. They say the move would encourage companies to invest at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the two parties agree that reform is necessary, there is little agreement about what shape it would take. Throughout the hearing, senators on the panel seized on Apple’s situation to illustrate their belief that the U.S. tax system is in dire need of repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House spokesman Jay Carney said the issue highlighted by the Senate panel’s report, unfairness in the U.S. tax code, is one of longstanding concern to President Barack Obama. Carney said Obama has long favored proposals “to ensure that American companies cannot use off-shore profit shifting to avoid paying taxes,” including a proposal for a minimum tax on foreign earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a major priority of his because he thinks it is inexplicable that our tax code would actually be written in a way that rewards companies for taking jobs and profits offshore, and thereby penalizes companies for doing what we want them to do, which is create jobs and opportunity here in the United States,” Carney said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks largely to the iPhone, Apple is one of the world’s most profitable companies. It earned $41.7 billion in calendar year 2012. It’s neck and neck with Exxon Mobil Corp. as the world’s most valuable company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Apple’s Irish subsidiaries date back thirty years, to the time when the Macintosh computer was Apple’s banner product, and its profits were a fraction of 1 percent of today’s figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s stock fell $2.74, or less than one percent, to $440.19 in Tuesday’s afternoon trading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subcommittee also has examined the tax strategies of Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and other multinational companies, finding that they too have avoided billions in U.S. taxes by shifting profits offshore and exploiting weak, ambiguous sections of the tax code. Microsoft has used “aggressive” transactions to shift assets to subsidiaries in Puerto Rico, Ireland and Singapore, in part to avoid taxes. HP has used complex offshore loan transactions worth billions while using the money to run its U.S. operations, according to the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tone of the hearing turned tense before the Apple executives appeared, as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., an anti-tax hawk who reflects tea party sentiment, insisted that the subcommittee apologize to Apple for unfair scapegoating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anyone should be on trial here it should be Congress … for creating a bizarre and byzantine tax code,” said Paul. “If you want to assign blame, this committee needs to look in the mirror and see who created that mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin countered angrily that no such apology would be forthcoming. “Apple’s a great company, but no company should be able to determine how much it’s going to pay in taxes ….. by using gimmicks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the subcommittee’s senior Republican, condemned Paul’s remarks as “offensive” for accusing Levin of bullying Apple executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin called Ireland a “tax haven,” an appellation Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny rejected when speaking in parliament in Dublin on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not a tax haven. American investors quite understand that. Our (taxation system) is statutory-based and clear and transparent and effective right across the board,” Kenny said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also denied the assertion in the subcommittee’s report that Apple had negotiated an Irish corporate tax rate of less than 2 percent. All companies pay the standard rate of 12.5 percent on profits from Irish operations, the prime minister said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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YouTube generated little revenue for years until the search giant figured out ways to insert ads at the front of videos, and started sharing that revenue with video content creators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>First ever acquisition announced by animated gif 🙂 @\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/yahoo\">yahoo\u003c/a> is acquiring @\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/tumblr\">tumblr\u003c/a>. \u003ca title=\"http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-acquire-tumblr-120000116.html\" href=\"http://t.co/QzvhAzLLx5\">finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-acq…\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23keepcalmandcarryon\">#keepcalmandcarryon\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— marissamayer (@marissamayer) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/336453536298717184\">May 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Marissa Mayer explains how Yahoo will keep Tumblr from meeting Flickr's fate \u003ca title=\"http://wp.me/p1re2-36MF\" href=\"http://t.co/clFkMZIfcD\">wp.me/p1re2-36MF\u003c/a> by @\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/seanludwig\">seanludwig\u003c/a> — VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/VentureBeat/status/336611224378822656\">May 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23TDSBreakingNews\">#TDSBreakingNews\u003c/a> Yahoo buys Tumblr. Promises it will be \"WAY better than GeoCities.\" — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/336604850441842688\">May 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Sorry, NYC, Tumblr selling to Yahoo was not the \"win\" we needed \u003ca title=\"http://pndo.ly/162Ubb0\" href=\"http://t.co/MosanAMJzD\">pndo.ly/162Ubb0\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— PandoDaily (@PandoDaily) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PandoDaily/status/336600929761632258\">May 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Yahoo! and Tumblr: An argument waiting to happen? \u003ca title=\"http://bit.ly/117ddnq\" href=\"http://t.co/64muM40Ryf\">bit.ly/117ddnq\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Forbes (@Forbes) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/336589680650899457\">May 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>A Tumblr of Tumblr Users Going Nuts Over Yahoo! Buying Tumblr: \u003ca title=\"http://slate.me/12PCINb\" href=\"http://t.co/gCxX4Q48uL\">slate.me/12PCINb\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Slate (@Slate) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Slate/status/336555215685840896\">May 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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For many years, until Marissa Mayer took over as Yahoo’s CEO last year, Flickr languished inside the Internet giant, largely ignored while feisty startups like Instagram (acquired by Facebook a year ago) and Tumblr emerged as more innovative media‑sharing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the process, Flickr seemingly missed opportunities with the explosions in social media and mobile devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flickr released an impressive new iPhone app last December, among other recent upgrades, and during a \u003ca href=\"http://www.7x7.com/tech-gadgets/inside-flickr\">visit \u003c/a>to Yahoo’s downtown San Francisco office last month, I asked Flickr executives about how things have changed since Mayer took the helm at Yahoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marissa is hugely supportive of Flickr,” said Brett Wayn, VP and general manager at Flickr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She talks a lot about how Yahoo is about people’s daily habits, and about how we can make them inspirational and entertaining,” said Marcus Spiering, head of product for Flickr. “Photos are one of those daily habits—they make the world go round.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(See Mayer’s own Flickr \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/marissamayer\">stream\u003c/a> here.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayn described Flickr’s current business model as harvesting four revenue streams: subscription fees (for “pro” accounts), advertising, a photo licensing deal with Getty Images, and a photo print partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer herself \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2013/05/20/yahoo-tumblr-deal-announcement/2326531/\">promised\u003c/a> earlier today in a conference call with analysts to not “screw up” Tumblr, asserting it will be allowed to continuing operating as separate operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also indicated that monetizing Tumblr content will be a priority—raising the prospect of advertisements that many Tumblr users might not welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That type of controversy is reminiscent of Google’s purchase of YouTube 2006. YouTube generated little revenue for years until the search giant figured out ways to insert ads at the front of videos, and started sharing that revenue with video content creators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>First ever acquisition announced by animated gif 🙂 @\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/yahoo\">yahoo\u003c/a> is acquiring @\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/tumblr\">tumblr\u003c/a>. \u003ca title=\"http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-acquire-tumblr-120000116.html\" href=\"http://t.co/QzvhAzLLx5\">finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-acq…\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23keepcalmandcarryon\">#keepcalmandcarryon\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— marissamayer (@marissamayer) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/336453536298717184\">May 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Marissa Mayer explains how Yahoo will keep Tumblr from meeting Flickr's fate \u003ca title=\"http://wp.me/p1re2-36MF\" href=\"http://t.co/clFkMZIfcD\">wp.me/p1re2-36MF\u003c/a> by @\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/seanludwig\">seanludwig\u003c/a> — VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/VentureBeat/status/336611224378822656\">May 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23TDSBreakingNews\">#TDSBreakingNews\u003c/a> Yahoo buys Tumblr. 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"content": "\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2013/05/20/YahooTumblr640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yahoo has confirmed its purchase of the popular blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael Liedke, AP Technology Writer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal announced Monday is Mayer's boldest move since she left Google 10 months ago to lead Yahoo's latest comeback attempt. It marks Yahoo's most expensive acquisition since the Sunnyvale, Calif., company bought online search engine Overture a decade ago for $1.3 billion in cash and stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yahoo is paying mostly cash for Tumblr, dipping into what remains of a $7.6 billion windfall reaped last year from selling about half of its stake in Chinese Internet company Alibaba Holdings Group. Taking over Tumblr will devour about one-fifth of the $5.4 billion in cash that Yahoo had in its accounts at the end of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While hailing Tumblr as a fount of creativity that attracts 300 million visitors each month, Mayer told analysts Monday that she is \"making a sincere promise to not screw it up.\" David Karp, a high school dropout who started Tumblr six years ago, will remain in control of the service in an effort to retain the same \"irreverence, wit and commitment to empower creators,\" Yahoo said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karp, 26, may now have a managerial mentor in Mayer, 37. Tumblr, which will remain based in New York, has about 175 employees while Yahoo has 11,300 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer, who worked closely with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin during her time at the company, had high praise for Karp during Monday's conference call. \"David Karp is one of the most inspiring, insightful entrepreneurs that I have ever met,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his statement, Karp predicted Yahoo would help Tumblr grow even faster as he strives \"to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal is expected to close during the second half of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tumblr will now play a pivotal role in Mayer's attempt to reshape Yahoo. To take on the challenge, Mayer ended a highly successful 13-year career at Google, which she helped surpass Yahoo as the Internet's most influential company. Since coming to Yahoo, Mayer has concentrated on improving employee morale, redesigning services and bringing in more engineering talent through a series of small acquisitions that have collectively cost less than $50 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yahoo will still focus on mostly small deals, Mayer said. She seized the opportunity to buy Tumblr because she believes the service can accelerate her efforts to turn around Yahoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tumblr is a game changer,\" Mayer assured analysts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As popular as Tumblr has become, the service remains unprofitable. That is likely to raise questions about whether Yahoo paid too much in Mayer's zeal to gain control over a hot service. Facebook Inc. faced similar doubts last year when it bought Instagram, a rapidly growing photo sharing site, that also hadn't been trying to make money. Facebook initially agreed to pay $1 billion in stock for Instagram, but the value had fallen to $715 million by the time that deal closed. Facebook still hasn't proven it will be able to make money off of Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer's efforts at Yahoo have been well-received on Wall Street so far, although most of the 69 percent surge in Yahoo's stock price under Mayer's leadership has been driven by the rising value of Yahoo's remaining 24 percent in Alibaba. When Alibaba goes public within the next few years, analysts have estimated Yahoo could collect another $10 billion to $20 billion by selling the rest of its Alibaba stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this deal pays off the way Mayer envisions, Tumblr could help Yahoo finally get its stock price to $33. That would be a major coup because many investors soured on Yahoo after a previous regime led by co-founder Jerry Yang squandered an opportunity five years ago to sell the entire company to Microsoft for $33 per share. The stock spent more than four years trading below $20 before the recent surge. The shares gained 22 cents to $26.74 in Monday's morning trading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal could backfire though if Yahoo's effort to make more money alienate a Tumblr user base that so far has been subjected to hardly any advertising during the service's six-year history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yahoo has to manage this acquisition in a way that keeps Tumblr's user base while trying to add advertising, which historically tends to turn off a lot of people,\" said Forrester Research analyst Zachary Reiss-Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer said Yahoo will work with Tumblr to create ads that \"are tasteful and seamless.\" The company expects Tumblr to start increasing Yahoo's revenue next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer is betting that Tumblr will provide Yahoo with a captivating hook to reel in more traffic and advertisers on smartphones and tablet computers. That rapidly growing market is expected to become even more important during the next decade as people increasingly consume digital content on mobile devices instead of laptop and desktop machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of Tumblr's users connect to the service through the mobile app, and engage in an average of seven sessions per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would characterize Tumblr as being ahead of Yahoo in terms of its work on mobile,\" Mayer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides offering one of the top mobile apps, Tumblr also runs one of the world's busiest websites, featuring 75 million daily posts about everything from politics to pets. Advertising has been a missing ingredient so far as Tumblr, like many online services in their early stages, focused on building a loyal audience before turning its attention to making money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal also has some symbolic significance for Yahoo, an 18-year-old company that had spent much of the past decade aimlessly drifting under different management teams while Google Inc. overtook it in terms of size and influence. At the same time, newcomers such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter began to command the attention of people who found themselves spending less and less time on Yahoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Yahoo's problems stemmed from missed chances to improve its service and technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yahoo flirted with potential acquisitions of Google and Facebook in those two companies' early days, only to have the talks unravel because Yahoo wasn't prepared to pay asking prices that were far below the current market values of Google ($300 billion) and Facebook ($63 billion). Yahoo also considered buying YouTube in 2006, only to be outbid by Google, which snapped up the world's leading online service for $1.76 billion — a price that now looks like a bargain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when Yahoo did pull off deals, the company has been criticized for mismanaging a list of acquired services that includes photo-sharing Flickr, online help-wanted service HotJobs and content-sharing service Del.icio.us. Yahoo ended up selling HotJobs and Del.icio.us, but Mayer has been looking at ways to spruce up Flickr and blend its photos into more of Yahoo's other services. Mayer is expected to discuss more changes for Flickr at an event in New York Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tumblr could help Yahoo recapture some of its cachet with teens and adults in their early 20s, a demographic that has become tougher for Yahoo to reach in recent years as it fell behind the technological curve and struggled to develop compelling services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Facebook has turned into a mainstream social network where even grandparents now connect family and friends, Tumblr has become one of the places where the cool kids hang out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tumblr is redefining creative expression online,\" Mayer said. \"On many levels, Tumblr and Yahoo couldn't be more different, but, at the same time, they couldn't be more complementary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tumblr emerged as a trendy online hangout by providing a service that makes it easy to share blog posts, photos, video and other content in an enthralling mosaic. The service says it has amassed more than 50 billion posts from 108 million blogs. Tumblr users rely on a dashboard to pinpoint the kinds of blogs that they want to track and also have tools to pass along the posts that interest them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wealth of content could be interwoven into Yahoo's other services that provide coverage of general news, sports, finance and entertainment. Tumblr also will fill Yahoo's gaping void in the realm of social media. Yahoo so far has had to connect its services to Facebook and Twitter to give its users a social networking outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having its own social networking service will also give Yahoo more insights into the things that people like — a key to distributing ads to consumers most likely to be interested in a specific products. That data, in turn, should help Yahoo sell more ads and accelerate its revenue growth. After three successive years of declines, Yahoo's revenue rose slightly last year, but lagged far behind the growth at Google and Facebook. Mayer has vowed to bring Yahoo's revenue growth back to at least the level of the overall Internet ad market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yahoo's acquisition will deliver a jackpot to Karp, who dropped out of high school to concentrate on computer programming. He ended up being home schooled while taking classes in Japanese and working on gambling software. Later, he became a product executive at a parenting website called UrbanBaby. After CNet bought the site in 2006, Karp set up his own a development service called \"Davidville\" before deciding to create an outlet for personal expression — an endeavor that hatched Tumblr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karp's cut from the Yahoo deal is about $275 million. Most of the rest of the money will be paid to the venture capitalists that invested about $125 million into Tumblr. 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