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Yahoo-Tumblr: It’s Not What You Buy, It’s What You Do With It
Yahoo has a long record of buying cool companies — and failing to benefit from that coolness. Here’s hoping history doesn’t repeat itself with Tumblr.
Harry McCracken
Harry McCracken is an editor at large at TIME, where he writes about personal technology for the magazine and TIME.com. He’s been a gadget nerd since the late 1970s and is the founder of Technologizer and the former editor in chief at PC World magazine. He's talked tech on everything from the History Channel to Dateline NBC to NPR's Science Friday. Contact him at harry_mccracken@timemagazine.com.
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