H4cked Off: do Yahoo's Tumblr figures really add up?

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Or would Mayer's time be better spent drunkenly bidding for Doctor Who memorabilia on eBay instead?

There is a facile presumption, when big money is involved, that the people staking the cash must be super-clever. Yet the opposite is invariably true, especially when one-time web leader Yahoo is i...

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