In Feb 2007, yet another blogging/ micro-blogging platform, Tumblr, launched — adding to the many choices for casual and serious bloggers and micro-bloggers in an already crowded market, and going up against competitors such as WordPress.com. Tumblr came to the attention of Yahoo!, a company with a history of buying many great startups then becoming a graveyard for some of them, due to neglect.
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