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Title: Flickr has been purchased by photo-sharing service SmugMug Post by: HCK on April 22, 2018, 04:05:22 pm Flickr has been purchased by photo-sharing service SmugMug
Flickr has been purchased by photo-sharing service SmugMug. According to a new report from USA Today, Flickr has been purchased by photo-sharing service SmugMug. The company says it plans to "[breath] new life" into Flickr by pouring in the necessary resources and focus. For what it's worth, SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill sure seems bullish about the service: Flickr is an amazing community, full of some of the world's most passionate photographers. It's a fantastic product and a beloved brand, supplying tens of billions of photos to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Flickr has survived through thick-and-thin and is core to the entire fabric of the Internet." It's unclear just how much money SmugMug spent on this 14-year-old piece of the entire fabric of the internet, but it has already launched a landing page for SmugMug + Flickr. SmugMug, which has been around longer than Flickr, says the two platforms represent "the world's most influential photographer-centric c... Source: Flickr has been purchased by photo-sharing service SmugMug (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/UvVW26Attxc/flickr-has-been-purchased-photo-sharing-service-smugmug) |