Photobucket success provided great return to some, but did it jilt others?
The WSJ has a story today about how investors at Insight Venture Partners made a killing last year when Photobucket was sold to News Corp. for $300 million — even as the firm’s own limited partner’s didn’t make a dime.
Scandal, right?
I just got off the… Continue Reading
Photobucket offers new tools for third party developers to access its photos
By this point, it has almost become standard for any decent-sized web service to offer an application programming interface — a way for third party developers to build applications that make use of information and distribution channels on a popular site. The most striking example… Continue Reading
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
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… Continue Reading
MySpace to buy Photobucket?
(Update: VentureBeat has now confirmed this with a source, who says details have to be wrapped up before an announcement is made. There is no exact price yet, because that is one of the things still being negotiated. It is somewhere between $400 million, which… Continue Reading
Roundup: Sabio, Photobucket cont, Technorati, Choicestream, PersonalBee and more
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Sabio Labs raises second round — Sabio is a secretive Palo Alto,… Continue Reading
MySpace stuffs Photobucket
Updated with second response from Photobucket
Photobucket, the popular photo storing service, recently unveiled new advertising features — as it reportedly seeks to sell itself for hundreds of millions of dollars.
However, MySpace, pissed off by the new features, and perhaps a bit perturbed by the Palo… Continue Reading
Roundup: Apple breaks DRM, DoubleClick bids, IDG scuffle, Photobucket and more
The latest action
Apple to release EMI music without anti-piracy technology — In agreement with music label EMI, Apple is making EMI songs available without digital rights management (DRM) through its iTunes music store. The music will be higher quality, and tracks will cost $1.29, or 30… Continue Reading
Photobucket, Cuts.com, and new video editing tools
Photobucket, a Silicon Valley start-up, has quietly become the third largest video hosting site after YouTube and MySpace — reporting more than 35,000 videos uploaded every day.
Next Tuesday, it announces some extensive image and video editing tools it hopes will help keep bringing people… Continue Reading