@ Midem: Kodak Owns A Stake In TweetPhoto Service

By Robert Andrews

Jan. 23, 2010 - 5:21 PM EDT Jan. 23, 2010 - 5:21 PM EDT

Turns out Kodak’s November partnership with Twitter photosharing service TweetPhoto also gave it equity in the service.

Asked about approac… Read more »

Panraven Raises $2.7 Million For Online Scrapbooks

By Joseph Tartakoff

Dec. 1, 2009 - 6:45 AM EDT Dec. 1, 2009 - 6:45 AM EDT

Panraven, a startup which offers an online “story-telling” service, has raised $2.725 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The co… Read more »

Forbes Buys Online Photo Platform FlipGloss

By David Kaplan

Nov. 13, 2009 - 4:48 AM EDT Nov. 13, 2009 - 4:48 AM EDT

photo: Flickr/wallyg

Despite its current financial troubles and continued layoffs, Forbes Media has bought FlipGloss, a photo publishing and online distribution… Read more »

DailyBooth Raises $1 Million For Photo Social Network

By Joseph Tartakoff

Oct. 19, 2009 - 10:50 PM EDT Oct. 19, 2009 - 10:50 PM EDT

DailyBooth, a nine-month-old social network that lets users share photos in real-time, has raised $1 million in a round of funding from a gr… Read more »

Interview: Picnik’s Sposato: Is The Photo-Editing Site The New Mint.com?

By Joseph Tartakoff

Oct. 2, 2009 - 3:40 AM EDT Oct. 2, 2009 - 3:40 AM EDT

photo: (CC) Randy Stewart

A startup launches a popular web-based service that goes up against a desktop-based rival, forcing the established player to counter with an… Read more »

Nikon’s New Twist On Photo Sharing: A Camera With A Projector

By Robert Andrews

Sep. 28, 2009 - 10:47 PM EDT Sep. 28, 2009 - 10:47 PM EDT

Flickr and Facebook have proved that people like sharing photos online. Now Nikon is betting that people want to show them on real-world sur… Read more »

Shutterfly Acquires Tiny Pictures For $1.3 Million — Investors Take A Loss

By David Kaplan

Sep. 14, 2009 - 1:09 AM EDT Sep. 14, 2009 - 1:09 AM EDT

Online photo printing and sharing service Shutterfly has acquired mobile app developer Tiny Pictures. The deal, first reported by TechCrunch… Read more »

Online Photo Service LifePics Raises $1.98 Million

By Joseph Tartakoff

Aug. 18, 2009 - 3:59 AM EDT Aug. 18, 2009 - 3:59 AM EDT

Online b-to-b photo service LifePics has raised $1.98 million in a round of funding. The nine-year-old company offers a host of online imagi… Read more »

Z2Live Raises $3 Million To Offer Game Developers Multiplayer Features

By Tricia Duryee

Aug. 13, 2009 - 12:00 PM EDT Aug. 13, 2009 - 12:00 PM EDT

photo: Z2Live

A Seattle-based company that launched earlier this year with the goal of targeting the iPhone has picked a new name and focus and has raised… Read more »

Video Interview: Mobypicture’s Mathys van Abbe On Expansion And Freemium

By Robert Andrews

Aug. 5, 2009 - 6:30 PM EDT Aug. 5, 2009 - 6:30 PM EDT

Mathys van Abbe, CEO of Dutch mobile media social sharing platform Mobypicture, tells Intruders.tv of plans to get UK business and whether t… Read more »

Industry Moves: Photobucket Founders Welch, Crystal Leaving

By Staci D. Kramer

Aug. 4, 2009 - 3:30 AM EDT Aug. 4, 2009 - 3:30 AM EDT

No deep thoughts needed to figure out what happened here: Photobucket co-founders Alex Welch and Darren Crystal are leaving Fox Interactive… Read more »

Family Website Startup Sampa To Close

By Joseph Tartakoff

Jul. 17, 2009 - 8:40 PM EDT Jul. 17, 2009 - 8:40 PM EDT

Sampa, a Seattle startup that made it easy for families to set up a central place to share photos, blog posts and other information online,… Read more »

Mobile Social Backup Service Mobyko Selling To IMI Mobile

By Robert Andrews

Jul. 7, 2009 - 10:30 PM EDT Jul. 7, 2009 - 10:30 PM EDT

Hyderabad, India-based mobile content distributor IMI Mobile is buying Mobytec, the operator of mobile backup and content sharing service Mo… Read more »

Slide Lays Off Sales Staff To ‘Refocus’ On Bigger Ad Deals

By Tameka Kee

Jul. 7, 2009 - 10:16 AM EDT Jul. 7, 2009 - 10:16 AM EDT

It was almost inevitable. This time last year widget-maker (because that’s what they were called, then) Slide was sitting on $50 million wor… Read more »

Interview: Chris Wade, CEO, Shozu: VCs Won’t Pay For Free Apps Forever

By Dianne See Morrison

Jun. 19, 2009 - 9:13 PM EDT Jun. 19, 2009 - 9:13 PM EDT

photo: Chris Wade

Charging for apps may just be the wave of the future, according to Chris Wade, the brand new CEO of Shozu, whose application allows users to… Read more »

Microsoft Pitches Photo-Stitching Application To Businesses

By Joseph Tartakoff

May. 8, 2009 - 4:30 AM EDT May. 8, 2009 - 4:30 AM EDT

Until now, Microsoft’s Photosynth has been mostly a consumer-oriented application, used to bring multiple pictures together in a 3-D photo l… Read more »

Flickr Expands Video-Uploading Features

By Amanda Natividad

Mar. 3, 2009 - 11:58 AM EDT Mar. 3, 2009 - 11:58 AM EDT

Flickr is now offering video uploading to users of its free service. Last year, Flickr Pro members got to start sharing 90-second video clip… Read more »

Social Media Photo Pub 8020 Lives Again; Saved By Camera Equipment Company

By David Kaplan

Mar. 2, 2009 - 8:37 AM EDT Mar. 2, 2009 - 8:37 AM EDT

It looks like user-gen photo publisher 8020 Media is getting a second chance at life. The company has been bought by photo equipment markete… Read more »

Infibeam Acquires Photo Printing Portal Picsquare

By VCCircle

Nov. 18, 2008 - 12:00 PM EDT Nov. 18, 2008 - 12:00 PM EDT

Picsquare CEO Manish Agrawal has confirmed the deal with Ahmedabad-based Infibeam to VCCircle.

Bangalore based photo printing portal Picsqu… Read more »

@ WebbyConnect: Bravo Executive Becomes Fan Of ‘Mullet Strategy’

By Matt Kapko

Oct. 24, 2008 - 2:24 AM EDT Oct. 24, 2008 - 2:24 AM EDT

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Nintendo Announces DSi With Cameras, Web Browsing And Music Playback

By Matt Kapko

Oct. 2, 2008 - 11:32 PM EDT Oct. 2, 2008 - 11:32 PM EDT

Nintendo is releasing a new portable gaming console dubbed the DSi that features more multimedia features, but specs that fall well short of… Read more »

@ Mixx: Life Lives Again: Time Inc. And Getty Images Form JV To Revive Life

By David Kaplan

Sep. 23, 2008 - 8:28 PM EDT Sep. 23, 2008 - 8:28 PM EDT

Time Inc.’s Life magazine has gone through several lives; its last incarnation as a newspaper supplement ended last year. Now the company is… Read more »

National Lampoon Acquires Photo Sharing Site ZingFu.com

By David Kaplan

Sep. 4, 2008 - 6:43 PM EDT Sep. 4, 2008 - 6:43 PM EDT

National Lampoon’s acquisition binge continues, as the comedy site has bought photo sharing site ZingFu.com. Terms were not disclosed. ZingF… Read more »

Photobucket’s Sale To Fox: How VC Insiders Made Big Personal Returns

By Rafat Ali

Aug. 27, 2008 - 9:20 AM EDT Aug. 27, 2008 - 9:20 AM EDT

On July 31, an email landed in my inbox alleging that some venture capitalist insiders from Insight Venture Partners benefited disproportion… Read more »

Picateers Gets $6.6 Million For Online Photo Based School Fundraising

By Joseph Weisenthal

Aug. 26, 2008 - 12:13 AM EDT Aug. 26, 2008 - 12:13 AM EDT

We don’t see many fundings in the online photo space anymore, but this one at least has something of a business model… Picateers, which do… Read more »

Eye-Fi Raises $11 Million In Second Round Of Funding

By Matt Kapko

Aug. 6, 2008 - 9:35 PM EDT Aug. 6, 2008 - 9:35 PM EDT

Eye-Fi, a company out of Mountain View, Calif. has raised $11 million in a second round of funding. Translink Capital and LMS Capital led th… Read more »

Updated: Getty Images To Resell Photos From Hand-Selected Flickr Users

By Joseph Weisenthal

Jul. 10, 2008 - 12:00 AM EDT Jul. 10, 2008 - 12:00 AM EDT

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 dea… Read more »

HP’s SnapFish Acquires MeraSnap In India; “It’s A Customer Acquisition” Says SnapFish MD

By Nikhil Pahwa

May. 22, 2008 - 11:42 AM EDT May. 22, 2008 - 11:42 AM EDT

HP-owned SnapFish has acquired MeraSnap.com, one among many is the nascent online photo finishing space. MeraSnap was one of the unfunded pl… Read more »

Online Slideshow Editor Animoto Takes Funding From Amazon

By Joseph Weisenthal

May. 16, 2008 - 10:17 PM EDT May. 16, 2008 - 10:17 PM EDT

Animoto, a site that lets users edit musical slideshows, has taken an unspecified investment from Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN). The NYC-based com… Read more »

Canvera Raises Series A Funding From Footprint, DFJ And Mumbai Angels

By Nikhil Pahwa

May. 5, 2008 - 1:13 PM EDT May. 5, 2008 - 1:13 PM EDT

Canvera, a Bangalore-based digital photo startup has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a round led by Footprint Ventures, reports V… Read more »

Broadband Content Bits: Discovery’s Planet Green; TommyTV; Alicia in Africa; myLifetime

By Amanda Natividad

Apr. 17, 2008 - 9:55 PM EDT Apr. 17, 2008 - 9:55 PM EDT

– Discovery’s Planet Green Launches Shows with TreeHugger.com to Blog in Tandem: In a bid to generate new media buzz before turning Discove… Read more »

Flickr Finally Adds Video — With Limits; Sharing ‘Long Photos’ That Move

By Staci D. Kramer

Apr. 9, 2008 - 8:21 AM EDT Apr. 9, 2008 - 8:21 AM EDT

With length limits of 90 seconds, Flickr for video isn’t likely to replace YouTube or other sites for serious video sharing but it may take… Read more »

The IPL Media Guidelines

By Nikhil Pahwa

Apr. 7, 2008 - 11:38 AM EDT Apr. 7, 2008 - 11:38 AM EDT

Word is expected today regarding changes to the guidelines issued by the Indian Premier League regarding media coverage; both Prem Panicker… Read more »

IPL And Media Publications At Loggerheads Over Restrictive New Media Guidelines

By Nikhil Pahwa

Apr. 5, 2008 - 10:11 AM EDT Apr. 5, 2008 - 10:11 AM EDT

The Indian Premier League is certainly throwing its weight around, and pushing its luck – the media guidelines issued regarding the much hyp… Read more »

Adobe Launching Free Version of Photoshop Online

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 27, 2008 - 9:46 AM EDT Mar. 27, 2008 - 9:46 AM EDT

Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is taking a note from startups nipping at the edges of its core products, and has now launched a free version of its Phot… Read more »

Imeem Joins The Platform Party — With A Twist: Full Access To Music, Video, Photos

By Staci D. Kramer

Mar. 25, 2008 - 9:01 AM EDT Mar. 25, 2008 - 9:01 AM EDT

Social net imeem joins the oh-so-crowded platform party with tonight’s launch of the imeem Media Platform. The platform includes a familiar… Read more »

10-Q Watch: News Corp: Photobucket Acquisition Price: $300 Million

By Rafat Ali

Feb. 12, 2008 - 7:18 AM EDT Feb. 12, 2008 - 7:18 AM EDT

News Corp filed its 10-Q quarterly report last week, and a hard number on Photobucket acquisition price, which wasn’t disclosed before but w… Read more »

Broadband Content Bits: MTVN; YouNewsTV; Reuters-Newscom; YouTube

By Amanda Natividad

Jan. 26, 2008 - 3:23 AM EDT Jan. 26, 2008 - 3:23 AM EDT

– MTVN’s LogoOnline unveils vlogs: MTVN’s (NYSE: VIA) LogoOnline has created 15 video blogs that the MTVN unit plans to run on its federate… Read more »

Slipping And Sliding Into The Valley

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 21, 2008 - 4:08 AM EDT Jan. 21, 2008 - 4:08 AM EDT

Why not to let doting, in-awe reporters-posing-as-insiders near a valuation story: case in point, this story from the BW columnist/reporter… Read more »

Widget Maker Slide Raises $50 Million Fourth Round From Wall St.

By Joseph Weisenthal

Jan. 19, 2008 - 5:03 AM EDT Jan. 19, 2008 - 5:03 AM EDT

Slide, the maker of social networking widgets, has raised a big $50 million fourth round from Fidelity and T-Rowe Price. The round, sans-dol… Read more »

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