Jun 1, 2011 5:52 PM
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-party clients, and a breath of life for two other companies in the process: the microblogging site today finally unveiled its new, native image app…
Posted In: Apps, Features, Tweets, Mobile, Search, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Twitter, firefox, instagram, mozilla, photobucket, twitpic, yfrog
Mar 24, 2011 7:00 PM
After courtroom wins in copyright cases by YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and the now-defunct Veoh, copyright holders who don’t submit proper takedown notices are getting less and less traction in courts. Take for example a recent decision in Wolk v. Eastman Kodak et al., a case where Sheila Wolk, a visual…
Posted In: Legal, Copyright, photobucket
Aug 3, 2009 6:30 PM
No deep thoughts needed to figure out what happened here: Photobucket co-founders Alex Welch and Darren Crystal are leaving Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS) following the end of their two-year earnout. The News Corp unit bought the photo-sharing site in July 2007 for $250 million in cash plus performance-related payments…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, alex welch, darren crystal, photobucket
Jun 25, 2009 5:29 PM
The slasher film series continues at Fox Interactive Media, which laid off another 50-75 people today at its non-MySpace properties as the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). fiscal year draws to a close. Photobucket, which FIM bought for about $250 million in early 2007, was the hardest hit, losing roughly one-third…
Posted In: Companies, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, ign entertainment, photobucket
Aug 26, 2008 11:20 PM
On July 31, an email landed in my inbox alleging that some venture capitalist insiders from Insight Venture Partners benefited disproportionately in last year’s sale of online photo site Photobucket to Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS), for about $300 million. Turns out WSJ also got a similar tip, dug into…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, News Corp., insight venture partners, photobucket
Jul 10, 2008 1:37 PM
As IAC (NSDQ: IACI) attempts to buildup Ask.com, it’s made a point of de-emphasizing syndicated search in favor of higher-yield organic search. Doug Anmuth touched on that in the report we discussed this morning. But it’s not going to stop doing these deals. The company announced that it’s now powering…
Posted In: Search, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Google, IAC, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, ask.com, photobucket
Feb 11, 2008 8:18 PM
News Corp filed its 10-Q quarterly report last week, and a hard number on Photobucket acquisition price, which wasn’t disclosed before but we reported on a ballpark price after speaking to sources. The total price of the acquisition, closed in July last year, was about $237 million in cash, and…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, photobucket
Dec 3, 2007 8:30 AM
Another step toward meshing video and photos on TV ... TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) subscribers with broadband-connected DVRs will be able to access and share photos from Photobucket, owned by FIM, (NYSE: NWS) and Picasa Web Albums by Google. Images will be shown at highest res possible, which means full HD…
Posted In: Gadgets, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Google, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, photobucket, picasa, tivo
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