George Oates one of the high profile firings by Yahoo
Yahoo continues to layoff people from its job operations. The company has removed three members from their popular Flickr photo sharing service.
This include George Oates who is responsible for the design of the service.
Yahoo had acquired Flickr some years back and since then the [...]
Flickr users gets a chance to sell images through Getty
Yahoo owned photo sharing service Flickr has announced that they are collaborating with Getty Images.
Flickr would now become one of the sources for photos. They would be able to contact selected Flickr users and ask them to become one of the providers.
Users would not be able [...]
Flickr Sadness: Founders leave Yahoo
Flickr remains one of the most loved web services owned by Yahoo currently.
However, Flickr fans would be sad to know that the founders of the company Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are both leaving the company.
They are joining the long list of senior executives at Yahoo who are moving out as [...]
Nokia N78 launched in Indian market
World’s largest mobile phone maker Nokia has announced the launch of their Nokia N78 model in the Indian market.
The phone comes loaded with a 3.2 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. It has 70 MB onboard storage capacity.
It also features FM radio, MP3 player and GPS system. Nokia [...]
Apple iPhone: Most popular camera phone on Flickr
Yahoo owned photo sharing service provides extensive data on the camera models which are used to take photos uploaded on their service.
The statistic page now shows that Apple iPhone has overtaken all other camera phones to become the most popular device on the service.
Apple iPhone has overtaken rivals [...]
Flickr all set to support videos
Yahoo is all set to add support for home made videos on their Flickr photo sharing service.
This seems like a very late attempt by the company to take away users from Google owned YouTube service.
However, Flickr has a very loyal user base some of whom pay for unlimited storage capacity [...]
Microsoft said to be working on a Flickr challenger
Flickr is one of the most popular photo sharing services on the web. Yahoo acquired the service some years back and it has since then become a leading destination for hosting and sharing photos.
One of the major challengers to Flickr is Photobucket. The latest report in the [...]
Webshots sold for $45 million by CNet
Online media giant CNet has revealed that they have now sold their subsidiary Webshots to American Greetings Corp. for $45 million.
Webshots is basically a photo sharing service which faces intense competition from market leader Flickr and other sites.
The price CNet got for this company is a lot less than [...]
