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Yahoo-Tumblr deal: Internet giant promises not to 'screw it up' over $1.1bn deal
Yahoo promised "not to screw it up" as it formally announced its acquisition of the Tumblr blogging platform for $1.1bn ahead of the US stock market opening on Monday.
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Top stories
The housing market is slowing. Consumer debt levels are sky high. But don't count Canada's banks out yet. For the past few quarters, the banks faced the same headwinds, but every three months analysts and investors were pleasantly surprised with their ...
WINDSOR, Ontario - Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they've been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of ...
OTTAWA - A team of 15 Canadian soldiers has been dispatched to Kandahar on a month-long assignment to assess whether dozens of military containers are still seaworthy enough to be brought home.
Giant media and internet companies keep scooping up social-media services: among others, MySpace went to News Corp, YouTube to Google, Instagram to Facebook, and now Tumblr to Yahoo.
Campbell Soup Co. posted higher earnings for its latest period as its U.S. soup sales rose 14%, the largest quarterly gain in nearly five years.
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Bank of Canada daily digest
| Money markets | Change | |
| Overnight rate | 1.00% | -0.0019 |
| Corporate paper, 1 month | 1.12% | 0.00 |
| Treasury bill, 1 month | 0.950% | +0.0100 |
| Inflation | ||
| Total consumer price index | 0.400% | -0.6000 |
| Interest rates | ||
| 10 year bond | 2.31% | -0.0400 |
| Prime business rate | 3.00% | 0.00 |
| Conventional mortgage, 5 yrs | 5.14% | 0.00 |