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Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.
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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 ...
Campbell Soup Co.'s (CPB) fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 2.3% as improved soup sales and last year's acquisition of Bolthouse Farms helped drive the packaged-foods maker's revenue growth.
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.
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 ...
WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg has spoken out in an attempt to capitalize on Yahoo's rumored $1.1 billion acquisition of rival blogging service Tumblr.
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| DI.UN | Dundee International Real Estate Inves | -2.55% | 774.79M |
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 |