Verizon is selling blogging site Tumblr to Automattic, the parent company of other blogging site WordPress, the companies announced on Monday. The financial terms of the deal were not announced, but ...

A report from the Wall Street Journal today revealed that telecommunications giant has spent the last few weeks searching for someone, anyone, to take blogging platform Tumblr off its hands. The ...

Oath, the Verizon subsidiary that owns the Yahoo and AOL digital media brands, has announced that as of December 17, all adult content will be banned from the Tumblr blogging site. Any still or moving ...

On December 3, in the wake of its removal from Apple’s App Store for child porn content, Tumblr announced a sweeping ban on NSFW content. Using its proprietary image-recognition software, the blogging ...

Tumblr this week quietly announced plans to roll out a new advertising program across its site which will see it implementing ads across users’ blogs. The company did not provide specific details on ...

Better late than never, Tumblr has rolled out HTTPS across its entire site. In a brief post on Tumblr’s engineering page, the company said all Tumblr sites will now have the web encryption setting ...

Julia Baritz is having quite a week. The Austin-based developer is the founder and lead architect of Pillowfort.io, a community-oriented social media platform that's quietly amassed around 20,000 ...

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Tumblr, a popular blog service owned and operated by Yahoo, says it will ban "adult content" from its site on Dec. 17. The decision comes just weeks after the Tumblr app was temporarily removed from ...

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