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David Karp Says Yahoo Is Not Buying Tumblr

tumblr_tbi.jpgValleywag says Yahoo is in talks to buy David Karp's micro-blogging service Tumblr for "as much as $50 million."

We called David and he said the rumor is categorically false. "We're just hearing about this now," he said.

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We told Valleywag's Owen Thomas that David denied his story and Owen said, "He also told me Tumblr's buying Yahoo, so I don't know whether we should believe his denial, either."

Meanwhile, head Tumblr coder Marco Arment, who was out sick today, has a better answer.

I hope they let me work on some of the many exciting projects at Yahoo! Who needs a high rank at a small company in New York? I want to move to California and get stuck in traffic every day on the way to my midlevel engineering job where I sit in a cubicle all day and can’t make any product decisions while working on something nobody will ever see to manage regional ad clickthrough stats tracking.

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