Fox Interactive confirms purchase of Photobucket and Flektor

Fox Interactive Media confirmed it is acquiring photo sharing site Photobucket and another slide-show creator site Flektor, as earlier reported.

See statement here.

RockYou says it’s rocking Slide, but both face trouble

RockYou says it’s rocking Slide, but both face trouble

Updated

When we reported that photo widget site Slide said it was the biggest independent widget maker on the web, with 150 million daily slide-show views, someone anonymously commented and said that RockYou’s numbers were better.

Either way, some bad news for both companies came out earlier today. MySpace is reportedly seeking to acquire Flektor, a scrappy, state-of-the-art new service that directly competes with Slide and RockYou, for an estimated $10-20 million, according to Techcrunch.

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