Time Inc.‘s Life magazine gets its full rebirth as a website today, as the company’s joint venture with Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) comes out of beta with 7 million images. The details of the planned launch were unveiled about six months ago at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Mixx conference. Last…

When Jupitermedia (NSDQ: JUPM) sold off its online images business to its larger rival Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) for $96 million in October, some people considered it second-time lucky for the company: Jupiter tried to sell its whole business to Getty in early 2007, but it fell apart then. But…

So the second time proves to be lucky: Jupitermedia has sold its online images business to its larger rival Getty Images for $96 million in cash. The first time Getty (NYSE: GYI) tried to buy JUPM’s images business, in February 2007, the deal fell apart. This new deal is centered…

Time Inc.‘s Life magazine has gone through several lives; its last incarnation as a newspaper supplement ended last year. Now the company is bringing it back as a website in a partnership with Getty Images (NYSE: GYI). Executives from the two companies made their announcement at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s…

In a way, Flickr is kind of the unofficial stock photo service of new media, so this makes sense… the Yahoo-owned photo site now has a deal with stock photo giant Getty that will see some Flickr users have their photos resold through the company. Exact details of how it…

Getty Images (NYSE: GYI), the Seattle based images and multimedia giant, has a shareholder approval on its $2.1 billion sale to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman. About 75 percent of the shares represented at the shareholder meeting were in favor of the deal, representing 96 percent of the votes…

On the road to going private, Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) reported Q1 revenue of $233.2 million, up 9.7 percent from $212.7 million in the year-ago quarter. The company benefited from the weak dollar, as revenue was up just 4.2 percent with constant currency. Net income declined to $23.9 million ($.40…

How did Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) decide to put itself up on the auction block, a process resulting in its $2.4 billion sale to PE firm Hellman & Friedman? In a monstrous SEC filing, the company has published the slides its banker, Goldman Sachs, presented to the board to help…

The world’s going crazy with 10-K’s…and we’re making it easy for you. Our motto, just in case you didn’t know: We kill ourselves, so you don’t have to. Some of the main ones below with some relevant points culled out: —Getty (NYSE: GYI) Images: The images company is in the…

Stock photo firm Getty Images (NYSE: GYI), which was known to be shopping itself around, has agreed to sell itself to PE Firm Hellman & Friedman for $2.4 billion or $34.00 per share. The offer represents a 55 percent premium to where shares traded on January 18, the day before…

Getty Images (NYSE: GYI), the world’s biggest supplier of stock pictures and video (and increasingly a digital player) which put itself up for sale and acknowledged it last month, has not yet found a buyer and the auction process is in jeopardy, reports NYT. The company, which hired Goldman Sachs…

Stock photo company Getty Images (NYSE: GYI), which recently said it was pursuing strategic alternatives, has reported Q4 revenue of $218 million, up 4 percent year-over-year from $203.6 million. Excluding benefits from currency changes, revenue only grew 1 percent. Net income went the other way, falling 7 percent to $28.5…

Earnings season picks up more steam with a much anticipated report from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) this afternoon, and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), then Google (NSDQ: GOOG) on back-to-back days. Check back here for the results. —Today: Yahoo, Edgar Online—Wednesday: Amazon, DNB—Thursday: The flood gates open: Google, NYT, Scripps (NYSE: SSP), Sony…

Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) is confirming rumors that the company is exploring strategic alternatives. The NYT reported late on Sunday that the company was looking for a sale that could fetch shareholders $1.5 billion. The announcement doesn’t go into specifics, except that it has hired Goldman Sachs as its financial…

Getty Images (NYSE: GYI), the world’s biggest supplier of stock pictures and video (and increasingly a digital player) has put itself on the auction block and could fetch more than $1.5 billion, reports NYT, citing sources. Goldman Sachs is the banker and suitors are mostly private equity firms, including Kohlberg…

Getty (NYSE: GYI) Images posted a 31.1 percent decline in net income of $25.7 million in Q3, down from the prior year’s $37.3 million. Earnings per diluted share were $0.43 in Q3, compared to $0.62 from last year. But increased licenses for editorial and micropayment imagery, as well as its…