Photo site Shutterfly goes mobile — acquires Tiny Pictures for $1.3M
Shutterfly, a company that lets you create photo albums online, has acquired mobile photo-sharing company Tiny Pictures for $1.3 million.
Shutterfly will expand its mobile offerings by using Tiny Pictures’ expertise in mobile, according to John Poisson, chief executive of Tiny Pictures, who confirmed the acquisition in an interview this morning.
The deal is a loss for investors, who had pumped in a whopping $12.2 million into the company, and suggests Tiny Pictures was unable to gain… Continue Reading
Radar connects with Flickr for photos and comments
When starting a conversation, you need a topic. In Radar’s case, that topic is pictures. Users upload them, and other users comment on them. The problem is that Radar is still a growing network, and so it may not offer many conversation starters for new members. Enter Flickr.
Flickr, Yahoo’s hugely popular online photo service, has billions of photos. Thanks to a new integration with Radar, these photos can now be carried over to the Radar… Continue Reading
Radar gets an iPhone app to better share media amongst friends
Let’s be honest, there’s a lot of websites and applications right now that let you share things with other people. Twitter does it, FriendFeed does it and Facebook does it, among many others. But while those are increasingly about sharing with as many people as possible, Radar has a sort of “less is more” approach. By sharing things with just people that are actually your friends or acquaintances, the items are more prone to elicit… Continue Reading
Tiny Pictures, creator of Radar mobile photo-sharing service, raises round
Tiny Pictures, creator of the Radar mobile photo-sharing application, has raised $7.2 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and existing investor Mohr Davidow Ventures
The company had previously raised $4 million, including money from angel investors Reid Hoffman and Joi Ito.
Radar says it is the largest mobile photo-sharing site of its kind, with more than 15 million pictures per month being shared by its members. The company has been getting traction around the world, and has begun… Continue Reading
Roundup: Invidi funded by WPP, Amazon, Google and more
1. Invidi gets $25 million from WPP, the world’s second largest ad conglomerate
2. Amazon building out its webs services
3. Atheros Communications buys micro GPS company
4. Google may be looking at wireless spectrum in the UK
5. Tiny Pictures, a mobile photo-sharing company, adds international language support
Invidi gets $25 million from WPP, the world’s second largest ad conglomerate — Most people think of Google and Yahoo as the new online advertising giants. But WPP is moving aggressively… Continue Reading
Mobile startups growing: photos, videos, presence detection and storage
If you’re in the mobile industry, and you’re not growing, you have a problem.
We’re in the midst of a mobile revolution (all arrows pointing up), and numerous start-ups are riding the tide as it rises
This week, those reporting success include mobile photo-focused social network Radar, a mobile video-sharing site Avot Media, a mobile social presence detector Aka Aki and a mobile data storage company Zyb.
Sure, Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook and other large companies are providing… Continue Reading
Radar, the real-time photo sharing company, gets boost
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San Francisco start-up Tiny Pictures allows you to take and send photos to your friends’ phones. The photos can be shared almost instantly and with groups of friends, who can then comment.
The company’s product, named Radar, will get a boost tomorrow, when Danger, which powers the Sidekick mobile device, will announce Radar’s software is available to be downloaded via a user’s carrier. The first carrier, Suncom Wireless, will likely be announced tomorrow. The two companies… Continue Reading