Online photo and video sharing site, Photobucket has added new features to make it easier for users to organize and personalize their photo and video collections.
Photobucket Investment – Is There a Scandal There?
The Wall Street Journal posted a story today about investors Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock from the firm Insight Venture Partners. It talks about how they went behind the backs of limited partners and personally invested in Photobucket back before News Corp. bought it and it really took off. The story seems to suggest some financial foul play, but not everybody views it this way.
FTC Clears Fox Interactive To Buy Photobucket
The FTC has no objections; Fox Interactive Media is free to acquire Photobucket. As a result, the photo-sharing site will probably get snapped up in the near future.
Fox Buys Photobucket and Flektor
Fox Interactive Media (FIM) has confirmed they are buying Photobucket and Flektor. Photobucket is a photo and video sharing service and Flektor allows users to create videos and slide shows with their photos.
MySpace Acquires Photobucket – Now Confirmed
Although the deal has yet to be confirmed by either party, it appears that MySpace did, in fact, acquire Photobucket. And although the figure $300 million has been mentioned, the terms of the arrangement (assuming such an arrangement exists) remain unknown.
Photobucket, MySpace Fighting Again
Embedded videos from Photobucket vanished from MySpace profiles as the two companies spar over digital content for the second time this year.
Photobucket Offers Online Video Mashups
Photobucket has launched a new service that will allow its 35 million users to do video editing online with technology powered by Adobe. The Adobe Web based video remix and editing technology is currently in Beta. Users can now combine photos, videos, text, and music to create videos or mashups of content from their Photobucket albums.
MySpace Blocking Photobucket?
GigaOM – MySpace Blocking Widgets? Om Malik is out with a post about MySpace blocking widgets and blogs a screen shot from Photobucket which reads:
Flickr Who? Photobucket Leads Image Sites
Among websites that allow visitors to store and share photos, Photobucket snares almost 44 percent of the market share of Photo Sharing Sites.