The year before brought several difficulties for SEO as a result of plentiful modifications that took place, including Venice, Penguin as well as Panda. Those that dealt with them must now begin boosting their methods and rule over the web. Remember that the purpose of the modifications implemented by Google was to enhance the features of the major search engines, so you must fully take advantage of them.

David Karp founded Tumblr in 2006 along with Marco Arment. Yahoo! has officially announced it is to buy the popular blogging site Tumblr, for 1.1$billion (£723million) in cash.The company made the announcement via its new official blog now hosted on Tumblr.Revealingly, Marissa Mayer, the company’s CEO, followed her opening remark of “I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr” with “we promise not to screw it up.”Mayer revealed that founder and CEO, David Karp, will be staying on as CEO for the time being as Yahoo! will run Tumblr independently from Yahoo! She further aimed to reassure users, adding “The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve. Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.”Karp posted on his own blog, adding “We’re elated to have the support of Yahoo and their team who share our dream to make the internet the ultimate creative canvas Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.”The deal is being seen as a positive one for both parties with Yahoo! acquiring a huge user base and Tumblr’s shareholders receiving a high price for their shares

Last night at Google I/O, Bluetooth scored a major victory for connected consumers when Google said it would support the Bluetooth Smart Ready platform natively in Android. This was functionality that iOS devices already have, and it should mean that Android users will get more functional apps to go with their Bluetooth-enabled devices. As someone who spends a lot of time playing with connected home and personal devices this is fabulous news.