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Jenna Wortham via NY Times

Over the past few years, Tumblr, a microblogging service, has steadily built a community of fans and users who like the site’s combination of social networking features and simple blogging tools that lets them quickly post photographs, videos, songs, links and bits of text.

Now, the company has attracted a slew of venture capitalists who are hoping to capitalize on that popularity.

On Monday, the company will announce it raised $85 million in fresh financing. The round was led by Greylock Partners and Insight Venture Partners, and the Chernin Group, Richard Branson, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and Sequoia Capital also contributed. To date, the company has raised roughly $40 million in funding.

I need to get a briefing from Tumblr to see what they plan to do with this new tankful of gas.

h/t catepillarcowboy

Apr 21, 201234 notes

By Matt Sullivan / RCFP

Scientists have detected flecks of undetonated explosives in four samples of dust from the World Trade Center catastrophe. A paper just published in the peer-reviewed Open Chemical Physics Journal describes the findings of nine scientists after 18 months of work.

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Apr 21, 20121,327 notes

scipak:

A controversial mastodon rib, found with the tip of a bone point lodged inside, is 13,800 years old, researchers report. The findings suggest that the hunters who killed this animal lived before the emergence of the Clovis culture, which was until recently thought to be the earliest…

Apr 21, 201236 notes

thinglabs:

We are pleased to announce that as of today, Thing Labs is merging with AOL. This deal has been in the works for a little while, and we’ve been dying to tell you all, but today it’s official!

First things first: Brizzly is sticking around. Of course anything can happen in the…

Apr 12, 2012109 notes

Where's Gaddafi?

guardian:

Cartoon - Bob Moran on the hunt for Muammar Gaddafi
World leaders call for dictator to give himself up as rebels tighten grip on Tripoli

Apr 12, 201232 notes

elomis:

At the moment in the US there is a collection of affiliated protests, centred on New York city. As with all “grass roots” protest movements, some of the protesters are unemployed or students who enjoy shows of unity and demands for change as a recreational sport. Some of them are people who have…

Apr 5, 2012854 notes

On Apple's Must-See TV

parislemon:

All of the reasons Marco Arment lists as to why Apple won’t build an actual television are good ones. But they’re also all good reasons why the market badly needs to be disrupted — and is ripe for it.

The argument that televisions are “an extremely competitive, commoditized market with very slim margins and most purchasing decisions going to whoever has the most features” sounds exactly like the PC market 15 years ago.

Remember, Apple was going to fail at computers because price is all that matters. A decade later, Apple was going to fail at phones because price is all that matters.

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