Tumblr announced in a blog post that it is disbanding its editorial team and closing its Storyboard project. Tumblr had formed its editorial team of experienced journalists and editors over a year ago with the goal of covering Tumblr as a living, breathing community. . Read More

Mashable reports that Tumblr has made improvements to its Android app, including adding post animations and making images more notable. Tumblr for Android is now available on Google Play, with a new post anything screen that allows users to share videos, chats, links, quotes and photos and text by clicking on individual icons. . Read More

Mashable reports that Tumblr has just achieved a huge milestone of reaching 100 million blogs and 44.6 billion blog posts that have been created using the platform. . Read More

Dawn Chmielewski and Jessica Guynn of The LA Times today posted an interesting article on the evolving relationship between Facebook and the film industry suggesting that "Hollywood's friendship with Facebook is showing signs of strain.". Read More

App developers didn’t get much of a holiday this week, due to an issue with Apple’s iOS and Mac App Stores that is causing apps to crash the minute they’re launched. Read More

Plaudits today go to Pinterest, which is now the third most-popular social network in the United States. Only Facebook and Twitter have larger user bases, leaving Google+, LinkedIn, Tumblr and all the others to play catchup. Read More

Richard Branson and Peter Chernin are among investors participating in $85 million in new funding for Tumblr, in a round that was led by Greylock Partners and Insight Venture Partners. Returning investors Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Sequoia Capital also participated. This brings Tumblr’s total capital raised to over $125 million. The company reports having 30 million blogs on its platform and receiving 13 billion page views a month, a leap up from 2 billion page views the same time last year. . Read More