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Animoto Opens Slide Show Creation Tools to Kodak Gallery and More Partners
Wade Roush There’s a slew of tools like Apple’s iMovie for turning your raw photos and videos into fun multimedia slide shows that you can share with friends and family. The problem is that none of...
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Shutterfly Orders Tiny Prints
Wade Roush Shutterfly (Nasdaq: SFLY), the Redwood City, CA-based photo sharing giant, said yesterday that it has agreed to acquire Tiny Prints, a Sunnyvale, CA, startup offering personalized greeting...
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$41M for Color’s Photo App
Wade Roush Palo Alto, CA, startup Color, founded by Lala.com creator Bill Nguyen, has raised $41 million in venture financing from Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank for a new...
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Lockerz, a Gamified Social Network Site with Original Content, Scores Another...
Curt Woodward Seattle startup Lockerz, which is positioning itself as a unifying platform for the online lives of teens and young adults, has raised $30 million out of a possible $45 million...
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Pixable Pulls In $3.6M More
Gregory T. Huang New York City-based Pixable, an online photo-management startup with roots at MIT, says it has raised $3.6 million in Series B financing led by Menlo Ventures. Previous investor...
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Stipple Builds Out System to Help Publishers Profit from Tagged Web Images
Wade Roush Between 30 and 40 percent of all files on the Web are images, and even pages dominated by text usually have a few photos. Yet most of these photos aren’t linked to anything interesting, the...
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PhotoRocket Cuts Staff, Swaps CEOs, Looks for New Direction
Curt Woodward Seattle photo-sharing startup PhotoRocket, stocked with veterans of high-profile companies like Amazon, Microsoft, aQuantive and Qpass, has cut its staff and changed CEOs as it tries to...
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Rich Barton & Co. Try a Location-Linked Photo-Sharing App: Trover
Curt Woodward That dang Rich Barton is one busy dude. Fresh off the public-market debut of Zillow (NASDAQ:Z), the Seattle uber-entrepreneur (he also founded Expedia) is trying to boost the user base...
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What Comes After Flickr? The Future of Photos in the Cloud
Wade Roush It’s unclear how much damage Hurricane Irene will deal out as it travels up the Eastern Seaboard this weekend, but in the British Virgin Islands, it’s already caused one notable loss....
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SEOmoz, Jobs, Zillow: Your 1-Minute Guide to the Past Week in Seattle Tech
Curt Woodward Rand Fishkin, the CEO of Seattle search-marketing software company SEOmoz, is known for his extensive blog posts that lift the curtain on running a startup company. But the amount of...
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In Zink’s Quest for Inkless Printers, $35M and New Co-CEOs
Gregory T. Huang Bedford, MA-based Zink Imaging said this week it has closed $35 million in Series B financing led by Genii Capital. The company, whose name stands for “zero ink,” is developing...
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Hacker’s Putty, Soggy Doggy, & Other Gift Ideas from Daily Grommet
Gregory T. Huang Holiday shopping season is a fun time of year for a company like Daily Grommet. The Lexington, MA-based Web startup finds unusual consumer products and tells a story about one such...
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Xconomy is Looking for a Digital Media Intern to Join Our Cambridge Offices
Erin Kutz Hey intern hopefuls, have you been on the hunt for a sweet media gig for the new semester? You’re in luck. Xconomy is looking for a rockstar intern to help out with a mix of editorial,...
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Is Mobile Photo Sharing Still Broken? Kicksend Thinks So
Wade Roush It’s really, really hard for people immersed in the technology world to remember a day when they weren’t so savvy about gadgets and software and the Interwebs. To you and me, the idea that...
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Point, Shoot, Print: Picplum Aims to Make Photo Printing Effortless
Wade Roush It should be far easier to order prints of the photos you snap with your digital camera or smartphone—that’s a no-brainer. But San Francisco-based Picplum is one of the only companies...
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Pixable Picked Up By SingTel for $26.5M
Erin Kutz The New York-based startup Pixable, a provider of social photo sharing technology, is being acquired by Singapore Telecommunications for $26.5 million. Pixable has raised about $6.6 million...
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Bump Brings Flock Photo-Sharing App to Android
Wade Roush David Lieb thinks there’s a big transition under way in the world of consumer information technology, and he wants his company, Bump Technologies, to be there waiting on the other side. The...
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Mok Oh, Ex-PayPal, Joins North Bridge to Build “Consumer Big Data” Startup
Gregory T. Huang When last we heard from Mok Oh, he was done with being chief scientist at PayPal. That was October, and the Boston-bred entrepreneur and veteran of companies like EveryScape and Where...
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TripAdvisor Buys Photo-Sharing App Tiny Post
Curt Woodward TripAdvisor, a big name in the original online travel game, is once again buying a smaller company as it tries to keep pace with changing consumer behavior. Today, the Newton, MA-based...
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Flowboard App Is Platform For ‘Touch Publishing’ on iPad
Benjamin Romano The debate rages on: are tablets good for creating content, or just consuming it? The iPad and other touch-enabled tablets are undeniably awesome for browsing the Web, viewing photos...
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