From what I can gather from the not-really-streaming livestream, the presenters had come to praise Flickr, not to bury it.

How many times can you confirm a piece of news? One more time! Yahoo's Marissa Mayer just announced the $1.1 billion deal over conference call and cheeky GIF-enabled press release. Yes, more ads are coming to Tumblr.

Who knows what Marissa Mayer will reveal once her mic is turned on. But the timing is sure terrific.

New rumors that Yahoo is eyeing Tumblr for a mega-pricy acquisition are startling at first. It'd be an expensive, desperate plan. But if you look over the company's past, you'll see history repeating itself—and a trail of blood.

What the hell is Yahoo? No one knows. But it's definitely not in the business of events planning anymore, with the news that it's unceremoniously killing Upcoming.org after ten years.