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Pinterest Makes Pins More Than Pretty Pictures

Pinterest brings information from the rest of the web deeper into its site, like any good emerging social platform.
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How to Spend a Billion-Plus on User-Generated Content, Google Edition

Sure, Tumblr could be a GeoCities for Yahoo. What if it’s a YouTube? Here’s what the video site’s financials looked like when Google bought it.
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Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1 Billion Deal as Expected

Done (just like we said).
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Netflix, “Breaking Bad” and an Energy Boost

I don’t think you’d be sitting here interviewing me if it weren’t for Netflix. In its third season, ‘Breaking Bad’ got this amazing nitrous-oxide boost of energy and general public awareness because of Netflix. Before binge-watching, someone who identified him- or herself as a fan of a show probably only saw 25 percent of the episodes.

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Why Yahoo Doesn’t Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem

Does Tumblr host a lot of pictures of naked people? Yep. But they’ve got an ad plan that deals with that.
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One Year After IPO, Facebook’s Biggest Bets Could Take a Long Time to Pay Off

The products that could do well for Facebook’s bottom line still have a long way to go. Will Wall Street stay patient?
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Yahoo Falls For Tumblr, Google I/O, and Bill Gates on Steve Jobs — 10 Things You Need to See on AllThingsD This Week

The week in AllThingsD, in one convenient post. You’re welcome!
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The Galaxy S4 Is Samsung’s Fastest Shipping Smartphone Ever

When is a sale not a sale — at least not the kind of sale most people think about? When the phone guys report their numbers.
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YouTube’s Biggest Stars Celebrate Being YouTube’s Biggest Stars

You won’t see many of these people on TV or in movies (yet). But on the world’s biggest video site, they’re giant.
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News Byte

Next Up to Investigate Google’s Competitive Practices: Canada

Here’s some late-on-a-Friday regulatory news for you: Canada’s Competition Bureau will investigate Google’s Canadian business operations, according to the Financial Post. Google confirmed the investigation, while Canada declined comment. Earlier this year, Google was largely cleared in a U.S. antitrust examination, and it is currently testing remedies in Europe.

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DirecTV Consider Bid for Hulu

DirecTV is weighing a potential bid for Hulu, the latest company to show interest in the six-year-old video site, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Time Machine! Tumblr’s David Karp in 2007, Age 21.

Back when he was 21, had 75,000 users and was raising $750,000.
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Tableau and Marketo Create Whopping Piles of Money With IPO Debuts

NEA’s $29 million stake in Tableau is now worth $955 million and change.
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