Yahoo has officially announced the purchase of Tumblr, this according to official statements released from both Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Tumblr CEO and Founder David Karp.

According to a press release Yahoo oddly promises not to ”screw up”:

“Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business. David Karp will remain CEO. The product, service and brand will continue to be defined and developed separately with the same Tumblr irreverence, wit, and commitment to empower creators,”

Tumblr CEO and Founder David Karp wrote on his blog:

“Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing. And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing,”

Yahoo paid more than $1 Billion for Tumblr, and have already moved their corporate blog to Tumblr.

This Mighty Deal from Pixlsby.me offers a perfect bundle of icons and UI kits to spice up your website or app. You’ll get the Aircons icon set, Silky Light UI Kit, and Smooth Dark UI Kit. This bundle regularly sells for $21, but for a limited time only, you can get all three pieces of this bundle for just $10!

Aircons Set Highlights:

• 241 Vector Icons
  This smooth set features 241 professional vector icons and glyphs covering a variety of popular design categories such as media, food and drinks, files and folders, tools, social networks, charts, navigation, and more.
• Multiple File Formats
  Each clean and modern glyph comes in multiple formats including PSD, AI, CSH, EPS, PNG and PDF formats, sized at 16×16 pixels. You’ll also get one vectorized PSD file showing all of the icons.
• Scalable
  Easily scale all icons and even change the color to best fit your needs, whether it’s for the Web, a mobile app, an art project, or more.

Silky Light UI Kit Highlights:

• Unique Style
  Everything you’ll need design-wise to build your own website with a modern and unique style. This collection of navigation bars, search boxes, dropdowns, buttons, sliders, tags, and more, are all arranged neatly on a single PSD file.
• Scalable
  These vector graphics are 100% scalable, so you can customize and resize them to your exact needs.

Smooth Dark UI Kit Highlights:

• Unique Dark Style
  This smooth dark style offers a modern and unique approach. Receive one cleanly arranged PSD file with all the buttons, dropdown boxes, calendars, form fields, login screens, nav bars, and more, you’ll need to create your website.
• 100% Scalable
  The vector graphics are 100% scalable, meaning you can cut them up and resize them to fit seamlessly with your projects.

Price:

This Smooth Pixels Bundle regularly sells for $21, but for a limited time only, you can get all three pieces of this bundle for just $10!

Billions: How exactly do Apple and Google count app downloads? - Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google announced that it had hit 48B downloads of apps on the Google Play Store. During the same keynote, the counter on Apple’s site ticked over to 50B App Store downloads.

Sorry iPad owners, BBM for iOS will be iPhone only - RIM announced earlier this week that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is coming to both iOS and Android as a free download later this Summer.

CW Coming To Apple TV As First Network To Offer Access Without A Cable Subscription - Well, that’s some positive news. The CW television network is bringing its television content to the Apple TV, the first network to do so directly, instead of via Netflix or Hulu. Even better, you won’t have to have a cable subscription to access the CW programming on Apple’s set top box, like many other content providers require.

Tim Cook discusses taxes before Tuesday’s visit to Congress: ‘Apple does not funnel domestic profits overseas’ - Yesterday Politico reported that Tim Cook will appear before Congress next week to testify in a hearing regarding how the company is handling its overseas finances and domestic taxes, and today Politico has published a brand new interview with the Apple CEO.

Newly Discovered Mac Malware Captures and Stores Screenshots - New Mac spyware was discovered earlier this week on a computer at the Oslo Freedom Forum, an annual human rights conference. Located by computer security researcherJacob Appelbaum, the malware, which has been deemed OSX/KitM.A, is currently being investigated by anti-virus company F-Secure, reports CNET.

New Pebble developer tools allow smart watch apps to talk to iPhone apps - The Pebble smart watch development kit was updated on Thursday to allow two-way communication between watch and phone apps, along with a new sports API for tracking exercise

What to do when you have more content than room on your iOS device - This week, I take an in-depth look at just one question. I get a lot of emails about syncing music to an iOS device, and many people find it difficult to sync when their music library is larger than the space available on their iOS device. So here’s a question about checked tracks, playing albums, and syncing.

$10,000 App Store Gift Card Goes to Ohio Customer - As you’ve probably heard, Apple’s App Store hit 50 billion downloads on Wednesday, which means we’ve all been waiting with bated breath to find out who the lucky so-and-so was — and which app they purchased.

iTunes 11.0.3 Supports AirPlay Speaker Control Via AppleScript - Also new in iTunes 11.0.3 is an update to the app’s AppleScript dictionary that adds support for controlling AirPlay speakers. The AppleScript additions contain several options: you can check on an AirPlay device’s name, activity, availability on the network, kind (computer, Apple TV, other AirPlay device, etc), network address, and even if it supports audio or video.

iPhone’s popularity among Facebook staff may have aided in Home’s lackluster launch - The launch of Facebook’s Home layer on Android appears to have been a flop, with relatively low installation rates and even lower user ratings on Google Play thus far. Now, some observers are blaming an unlikely candidate: Apple’s iPhone.

What makes NucliOS so great is the fact that it was built from the bottom up with performance in mind, in other words this is not just a port of an application originally built for another platform, NucliOS was built with the iOS platform in mind.

After having used NucliOS for a few days I can honestly say that it is packed with amazing features that will undoubtedly make help you create stunning apps for the iPhone and iPad.

If you want to create amazing charts then NucliOS offers more than 40 different types covering everything from bar charts to financial and scatter charts. Not only can you customize which chart you want to use but you can also change the colors and markers used on the charts. If you need to show a change in trends then NucliOS offers a motion framework allowing you to animate your graphs.

If you need to arrange something then why not use the grid template, NucliOS offers a plethora of different grids and tables you can apply to almost any data. Whether you are looking to add multiple columns or single rows to your app, there is a layout for everything.

In my opinion perhaps the best feature of NucliOS is the fact that everything from graphs to gauges come with the source code ready for you to add to your application.

NucliOS is already available in several different editions, for $295.00 USD you get the Community Edition, which includes forum-based support. However if you need phone or email support from Infrag… experts you can get the Standard Support edition for $495.00 USD. If you require 24-hour support you can purchase the Priority support edition, which gives you access to one year of priority phone, 24-hour chat and rapid response online support. Before deciding which version you need you can download a free trial as well as downloading a free sample browser from the Apple App Store.

There is no doubt in my mind that I would recommend NucliOS to anyone wanting to create professional high quality applications for iPhone and iPad. Everything they offer is easy to use as well as customize and implement into your own applications.

Yesterday Apple let the world know that they have reached 50 billion downloads in the App Store, in recent weeks Apple.com has been counting down to the 50 billion marker, and now the website shows an iPad mini with the word “Thanks” written in FiftyThree’s popular Paper drawing app.

Apple hasn’t stated who the lucky winner is but the person is set to receive a $10,000 gift card to the App Store. Furthermore Apple will give $500 to the first 50 customers after the 50 billionth download has been reached.

Considering that the App Store was opened in 2008 this number comes really fast, in April 2009 the App Store reached 1 billion app downloads, the 40 billion download marker was reached in January meaning that 10 billion apps have been downloaded in less than 6 months.

Every Wednesday we will present you with a Top 10 app list, each week will have a different theme, if you feel like there is something you would like to see a top 10 App list of just leave a comment below!

This week we have compiled a list of the top 10 food and travel  apps.  This week we have apps such as Martha Stewart’s Everyday food, The Food Network, Weber’s on the Grill and many more.

#1. Simply Organic Recipes

Price: Free

The Simply Organic iPhone app is a key to a simply healthy way of life! Browse our collection of hundreds of recipes to find an irresistible new dish, or a simple recipe for an old favorite. Use the full-flavored, wholesome ingredients we’ve highlighted to make each recipe a resounding success. Save on a variety of Simply Organic products by accessing the latest Simple Savings coupons.

#2. Martha Stewart Everyday food

Price: $0.99

This new version of Martha Stewart’s popular iPhone app has been built from the ground up with across-the-board improvements and many new features

#3.  Evernote Food

Price: Free

Evernote Food is all new and now available on iPad! Evernote is the one app you need for all of your food experiences. Discover and save delicious recipes and amazing restaurants. Document all your cooking and dining experiences with photos and notes. Share your beautiful meals with the world.

#4. Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner

Price: Free

A fun and easy way to find awesome recipes! Search by ingredient or give your phone a shake to find inspiration. Then relax and feel the cooking stress melt away. You’ll be making recipes from the #1 food site, all tested and reviewed by home cooks like you.

#5. BigOven

Price: Free

Take 250,000+ recipes (including all your own and recipes from friends), your grocery list and menus anywhere on your iPad! With over eight million downloads, BigOven is the most complete cooking tool for getting inspired and organized in the kitchen and on-the-go.

#6. Weber’s on the Grill

Price: $4.99

If you love to grill or barbecue, you are going to love this app! Weber’s On the Grill™ features 280 classic Weber recipes plus 40 recipes for rubs, marinades, and sauces that are sure to get you fired up to get out and grill. You can tag your favorites, and even create and share a master grocery list for your grilling recipes that you can take with you to the store.

#7. Jamie’s Recipes

Price: Free (With in-app purchases)

Jamie’s Recipes makes everything really clear and shows you that cooking delicious, fresh food can be dead simple – and you can have a laugh at the same time too. Invite your mates over and give it a go. Enjoy!

#8. How to cook everything

Price: $4.99

This first-of-its-kind app of the bestselling cookbook—How to Cook Everything® from New York Times columnist Mark Bittman—has 2,000 recipes, 400 how-to illustrations, and a host of features that appeal to cooks on the go.

#9. Food Network in the Kitchen

Price: $1.99

In the Kitchen offers thousands of all-star recipes from your favorite Food Network chefs and shows, making cooking easy, enjoyable and delicious.

#10. The Photo Cookbook – Quick & Easy

Price: $3.99

The Photo Cookbook is like a private cooking course in your own kitchen with an experienced cook who clarifies the preparation. Beautiful photography, elegantly displayed in high resolution on your iPad, illustrates every step.

Over the past few months more and more Apple job listings have begun appearing, what’s interesting is that these seem to suggest a possible next-generation iWork software suite may be in the works.

Looking at these job postings seem to suggest that Apple might already be near the end of the process since they are looking for specialists in quality assurance. One listing was released on May 11, states that Apple is looking for a software quality assurance specialist, this is what the job posting states:

The iWork team is looking for a software QA engineer to work on the next generation of Desktop, Mobile and Web application/services. This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong problem solving skills who can contribute in a dynamic team environment.

• Bug reporting and isolation
• Planning, designing, and executing test cases
• Ensure the successful delivery of a quality product by performing ad hoc and structured tests on a daily basis

Even though we are still waiting for offical news from Apple, these job listings do strongly suggest that something is in the pipeline, after all the current iWork ’09, which includes Pages, Numbers and Keynote, was released way back in 2009 and has only seen minor updates since then.

Will Apple Top Facebook’s $1 Billion Bid for Waze? - Facebook is in talks to buy Israeli crowdsourced traffic and navigation app, Waze, for $1 billion. But should Apple get back into the bidding?

14-Year-Old Discovers iPad Smart Cover Magnets Can Shut Off Pacemakers - A fourteen-year-old has discovered that the tiny magnets inside the iPad can inadvertently shut off pacemakers if the device is left on the chest, such as might happen if the user falls asleep with the iPad lying on them.

Apple demands Android source code in Samsung patent spat - In the next step of the Apple V. Samsung battle, Apple has asked a judge to make Google hand over documents related to the Android operating system.

Apple strikes iRadio deal with Universal Music - The company has reached a licensing deal with the world’s largest music label, Universal Music Group, according to people familiar with the situation. Apple is still in deep negotiations with Warner Music Group on some specifics. It also still needs an agreement with Sony Music, which has been tougher for Apple to get on board.

Apple pushes App Store promotion as 50 billionth download mark approaches - Thursday saw Apple increasing promotion for the forthcoming 50 billion download on its App Store, publicizing the approaching mark with a prime spot on the company’s homepage.

iOS 7 Mobile Traffic Spikes On Both iPhone And iPad Ahead Of Apple’s WWDC, According To Onswipe - Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is only around a month away, and while we’re already expecting to see iOS 7 at least previewed at the event, now we have some actual data to back up that supposition.

Pixelmator 2.2 Available Now With More Than 100 New Features & Improvements - Pixelmator 2.2 just hit the Mac App Store, bringing more than 100 new features and improvements to one of the finest image editors on OS X. The update includes smart shape tools, a new light leak effect, a custom shapes palette, and lots more.

Adobe’s Project Mighty Input Tools Look Pretty Awesome - Color me impressed! I figured the next generation of designer-relevant input devices would come from Apple or Wacom, but surprise—it’s Adobe. The software giant is venturing into hardware, and their resultant Project Mighty looks pretty damn wicked so far.

Apple grabs No. 5 spot in growing Chinese smartphone market - At three times the size of the U.S. market, China has become one of the most important battlegrounds in the smartphone industry, and Apple’s iPhone is now the fifth-largest smartphone seller in the country.

A cheaper iPhone doesn’t necessarily mean a “cheap” iPhone - For a product that has been around a scant six years—an eternity in the field of consumer electronics—the iPhone has had a remarkable run. It has changed the way we think about computing, conquered the mobile market, and transformed Apple from a relative underdog in the PC industry into one of the planet’s most profitable and influential enterprises.

In Nook, Microsoft sees a chance to compete against Amazon and Apple - Microsoft already has a stake in Nook Media, and now it is reportedly seeking to buy out the entire company. In Nook, Microsoft sees a shot at competing against Amazon and Apple — in a way it might not be able to do from scratch.

Netflix for iOS update features auto-play for TV shows, adds movie recommendations - Netflix today updated its iOS app with some features that will undoubtedly please all you TV lovers out there. First and foremost, the app update includes a post-play feature which immediately starts the beginning of a new TV episode once a user finishes watching the previous one.

New Disney ‘Story’ App Uses Your Photos, Videos to Tell Tales - Disney’s long been known as the go-to maker of family films, but with Disney Interactive’s new Story app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, they’re hoping families will make some short films of their own.

Sony has made it clear in recent months that they want to encourage indie developers to create apps for the PS Vita and the upcoming PS 4, now they have taken a large step in that direction. According to a post on the PlayStation Blog Sony has decided to waiver the Publisher License Fee for PlayStation Mobile.

In other words developers no longer have to pay $99 in order to be able to develop apps for Playstation Mobile, furthermore they can add their games onto Sony’s PlayStation Vita or any other PlayStation-certified device without having to pay for it. This is what the official Playstation Blog states:

This summer we’re throwing down the gauntlet for PlayStation Mobile development and are removing any existing barriers to get your brainchild of a game on this new PlayStation platform. As you saw with our recent Indie Arcade event at GDC, we’re always looking to support new developer talent, so we’ve decided to waive the $99 publisher license fee for PlayStation Mobile, which means you can bring your games to PlayStation Vita or any PlayStation-certified device free of cost.

It seems as if gaming developers are starting to feel the pressure from mobile devices such as the iPhone and Android phones. What do you think will this change in pricing entice developers to focus on Playstation Mobile or do you think they will stick with iOS and Android?