Amaya Toman Like the previous installments of our series on historical events in the field of technology, today's one will be related to the company Apple. We will remember the birth of Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson, but we will also talk about the acquisition of the Tumblr platform by Yahoo.
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Tumblr goes under Yahoo (2017)
On May 20, 2017, Yahoo bought the blogging platform Tumblr for $1,1 billion. Tumblr has enjoyed great popularity among various groups of users, from fitness enthusiasts to manga fans to teenagers with eating disorders or lovers of pornographic material. It was the latter group that was concerned about the acquisition, but Yahoo insisted that it would run Tumblr as a separate company, and that accounts that did not violate any laws would be retained. But in 2017, Yahoo was bought by Verizon, and in March 2019, adult content was removed from Tumblr.
Walter Isaacson was born (1952)
On May 20, 1952, Walter Isaacson was born in New Orleans - an American journalist, writer and official biographer of Steve Jobs. Isaacson worked on the editorial boards of the Sunday Times, Time, and was also a director of CNN. Among other things, he also wrote biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger. In addition to his creative work, Isaacson also runs the Aspen Institute think tank. Isaacson began working on a biography of Steve Jobs in 2005, in collaboration with Jobs himself. The aforementioned biography was also published in a Czech translation.
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