Yahoo says buying Tumblr for $1.1B, vows 'not to screw it up'
Yahoo said Monday it will buy blogging website Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, in a bold move to make itself more relevant amid the explosion in social media on the Internet.Yahoo said it "promises not to screw it up," in a press release announcing the deal. It said Tumblr will operate independently as a separate business, perhaps trying to assuage Tumbler users who are concerned that Yahoo would ir...
SUV passengers more likely to survive crashes
In a head-on collision between a passenger car and a sport-utility vehicle, the driver of the SUV is as much as 10 times more likely to survive, according to a new study – even if the passenger car has a better crash safety rating.The findings, to be presented at an emergency medicine conference today, show that despite more than a decade of efforts by federal regulators and automotive engineers t...















