In an investor call Monday morning, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said Yahoo and Tumblr’s audiences really don’t overlap. She said that’s fine: Yahoo users will be exposed to more Tumblr content, and Tumblr gets a new ad strategy and possible Flickr integration while remaining a separate site. Read more at GigaOM »
Media owners may be spooked by Pinterest’s controversial re-use of copyrighted content – but they could have plenty to gain from embracing,… Read more »
For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network reveale… Read more »
Some revealing numbers out from the analysts at Rutberg & Co. that point to how big mobile is in terms of tech investments today, and how co… Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has an image police – but an arrest they have made may be mistaken. A blogger using its SkyDrive cloud storage servic… Read more »
I’ve been sucked into image collecting and sharing site Pinterest for hours on end, but my NYC location makes me a less than typical user: N… Read more »
Social content site BuzzFeed is the latest company to release a version of its app especially for the Kindle Fire. Read more »
Evernote has been one of the darlings of the app revolution, with a popular free service across multiple plaforms and used for all manner of… Read more »
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Facebook unveiled a new version of its social-media platform Thursday designed to help media companies and social-application developers enc… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) decided its Google+ social network was ready to take a big step on Tuesday: it’s now open to the public and no invitatio… Read more »
Google’s social reinvention under CEO Larry Page has claimed another victim. Slide founder Max Levchin is leaving the company after Google (… Read more »
Corbis and the user-contributed photojournalism site Demotix are expanding the syndication deal they struck in March in to an investment.
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It has been a lucrative couple of years for companies seeking funding armed with a powerfully simple idea: sharing exactly where you are and… Read more »
Pixazza is losing its unwieldy name as the company looks to evolve from being a photo ad network that specialized in tagging jpegs and gifs… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Apple Patents: Just as Apple is fighting patent battles on multiple fronts, some uphe… Read more »
News media this week reported next year’s London Olympics will allow athletes to tweet from the Summer Games.
In fact, that consent was con… Read more »
Mika Salmi described the new backers of PressPlane, the parent company of new mobile app Zapd, as a “who’s who” of Seattle in a note to me a… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched yet another project geared at making its search engine a more social beast. The awkwardly titled Google+ we… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– iCloud: The good news for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is that 76 percent of iPhone owners say… Read more »
Photo distribution company Getty Images has finalized its acquisition of stock images service Photolibrary as it seeks to expand its interna… Read more »
Fail whale no more. Some big inroads for Twitter today in its bid to make its own basic services more appealing to users than using third-pa… Read more »
Latest in the long line of consumer brands trying to leverage social media is Unilever, which is hoping a new mobile app to aggregate users’… Read more »
“18hrs in. 1st exp needs tutorial. finding people must get easier. UI too minimal. long road. grt people. lots of capital. #wecandobetter” T… Read more »
DailyBooth, a social network that lets users share photos in real-time, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding. DailyBooth users… Read more »
The Press Association Images news photo agency says it will distribute photos from the “citizen journalism” service Demotix – the agency’s f… Read more »
Are you spotting a trend here? Hot on the heels of mobile photo sharing site Path picking up nearly $9 million in funding, Instagram, anothe… Read more »
Photo sharing app Path has secured a Series A round of financing worth $8.65 million, with investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,… Read more »
Eastman Kodak hasn’t been shy about using its patents to wring some licensing money out of the smartphone industry, but the company recently… Read more »
The former CEO of voicemail firm SpinVox has resigned after four months as CEO of a social media startup, which has bought out another web f… Read more »
After a year and a half, Chas Edwards is exiting Digg as its chief revenue officer to join photo ad network Pixazza. The departure comes ami… Read more »
Digital cameras can tell a head from a bed, Facebook organises photos by manually-added face tags, iPhoto tries its best to put a name to a… Read more »
Michaels, the biggest craft chain in the U.S., is making a small digital acquisition, buying up ScrapHD, a site that lets users collaborate… Read more »
HP’s Snapfish — which currently is primarily an online photo storage service — is expanding into video with the purchase of video sharing… Read more »
Facebook has bought up Divvyshot, a one-year-old photo sharing startup. Divvyshot’s site lets users share photos by grouping them into colle… Read more »
Nearly two months after Google’s rocky introduction of ‘Buzz,’ the sharing service remains under fire from privacy advocates; eleven congres… Read more »
News aggregator Daylife will begin reselling pictures posted by users of London-based citizen-photo journalism site Demotix to create an “op… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has bought up online photo-editing service Picnik — the latest in its string of recent acquisitions. In a blog post, Pi… Read more »
Scrapbooking site Scrapblog has raised another $2.5 million from Disney’s Steamboat Ventures, the company tells us. Scrapblog lets users cho… Read more »
With the dust settled on Getty Images’ $96 million acquisition of Jupitermedia’s online images business over a year ago, *Getty* is introduc… Read more »
