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France Telecom plans to invest between 30 and 50 million euros in its video-sharing website Dailymotion and begin a fresh search for a partner in the autumn, its chief executive said on Tuesday.

As Marissa Mayer stood with David Karp to announce Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr on Monday, you couldn't help but notice the vast educational divide between the two principals.

U.S. stocks finished lower Monday after comments from Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans knocked them from new all-time highs set earlier in the day.

Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer speaks at a news conference in New York May 20, 2013.

Tech stocks traded sideways Tuesday morning, weighed down by a drop in Apple Inc.

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Yahoo's investments in Flickr and Tumblr are steps toward fixing gaps in its business, but it's only the beginning of a longer journey, Mark Mahaney of RBC Capital Markets says.

Yahoo announced it bought the blogging site Tumblr for a whopping $1.1 billion on Monday, May 20.

Tumblr, used by approximately 8 percent of online users, skews heavily toward the younger crowd.

1. Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo will move its 500 New York City employees into new offices into the former offices of The New York Times in Times Square.

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With its $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition , Yahoo has pledged to keep the blogging site alive, though Tumblr users might eventually see Yahoo ads in their blog feeds, and Yahoo users could see Tumblr posts on the Yahoo homepage newsfeed.

U.S. stocks traded slightly higher, grinding further into all-time high territory after a slow start Monday with Yahoo Inc.'s acquisition of Tumblr and other deal news dominating investor attention.

Top Stories In its quest for cool, Yahoo nabs Tumblr. Yahoo's board approved the $1.1B acquisition of popular blogging service Tumblr Sunday, the latest step in Marissa Mayer's quest to give the internet heavyweight a much-needed makeover.

European stocks are expected to open higher Monday, after a yet another new record close on Wall Street Friday, but the dollar is sharply weaker after Japanese economy minister, Akira Amari, commented "it's being said that the correction of the strong yen is largely completed.

Yahoo! Inc. 's board has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr Inc., a service that hosts 108 million blogs, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.

Yahoo will incorporate selected tweets into the news feed on its redesigned home page through a new partnership between the Web portal and the microblogging service.

Yahoo Japan Corp. has said it suspects up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan portal.