If you recall Nick D'Aloisio, it's likely because of the time he spammed Gizmodo to the point of tears, and then sold his dinky app company to Yahoo! for millions of dollars. Then we all forgot about it. Now, the Wall Street Journal says he "has changed the way we read." Really!

She wasn't just going to let Mark Zuckerberg be the only one swallowing up adjacent property, was she? She's been in Vogue, don't you know,and if she wants to spend $11.2 million on a Palo Alto mortuary a block away from her house, then God bless her.

Yahoo's newest blogger sat down for a brief interview with Forbes, and he's bursting with energy and candor—who knows which camcorders he'll help us set up at his new corporate home? The future is a thrill. He won't, however, talk about any of his ethical problems.

David Pogue, veteran non-reporter, alleged wife-attacker, and lover of publicists, is leaving the mothership for Marissa Mayer. It may or may not have to do with everyone at the Times hating him.

Cool, more things to be terrified of: the Washington Post has more Ed Snowden slides detailing our federal government's data mining operations, and they are bad. Hundreds of millions of address books across Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and other various inboxes are subject to secret NSA collection.

Nick Bilton presents more evidence of near-implosion at the International House of GIFs: "At Tumblr, the venture capitalists grew so impatient with its founder, David Karp, as he struggled to make the company profitable, they were discussing his removal before the site’s sale to Yahoo."

Editorial Director Christopher Price, who joined Tumblr a week after it launched and has been part of its inner circle ever since, is jumping ship.

In this month's issue of Fortune, we "meet the most important young iconoclasts, risk-takers, and rule breakers in business"—40 of them, to be exact. At the top of the 40 Under 40 prestige pile is Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, who, despite lavish press, has accomplished about as much for Yahoo! as you have.

Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer is very proud of her new logo up there—she made it herself over the weekend! And somehow made the company look more dated than ever. It also represents a Yahoo! that has little idea what it's doing, if it's doing anything at all.

Upside-down uber-acquirer Marissa Mayer is fashioning herself into something of a content queen. According to Kara Swisher, the "hey-look-at-me CEO" wants Yahoo visitors to look at Katie Couric too.

When Marissa Mayer isn't posing upside down in lawn chairs, Yahoo's chief executive is doing normal CEO stuff, like buying this miniature, $33,000 version of Palo Alto's Peninsula Creamery. To place in her backyard. For her infant son.

If Yahoo's determination to dump money on every faltering startup doesn't somehow save the company, at least CEO Marissa Mayer will have a souvenir from the good times.

"He's single!," Oprah once gushed to her audience over Gurbaksh Chahal, a studly young startup founder who only a year before had sold his company to Yahoo! for $300 million. Now he's facing 41 counts of assault.

AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reports some glum news from a recent Yahoo! financial filing: when the confused internet portal sealed its deal, Tumblr has only $16 million in the bank. That's a lot to us, but peanuts for one of the most popular sites on the entire internet.

Marissa Mayer is quickly establishing herself as tech's preeminent taxidermist: the company will acquire Rockmelt, AllThingsD reports, a social aggregation something something that no one else wanted. They're paying $60 million for a dud. There's a pattern here.

Marissa Mayer has been at the helm of Yahoo! for just over a year, and in those fleeting twelve months, has purchased 18 companies. Today, AllThingsD reports it becomes 19, and we still don't really know why.

Only two days after we wrote about Tumblr's capitulation to advertising interests—by blasting porno Tumblrs out into the phantom zone—the company is already apologizing.

Most people would consider Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer's (roughly) $6 million salary enough compensation for her service to her shareholders. Like—after this, we're cool. Six mil. That should do it. But the company's exec team thought individual thanks from Mayer's underlings were in order.

Marissa Mayer's charitable foundation for struggling startups has officially hit a one acquisition per day pace. Congratulations, Xobni, you are today's winner.