Bending Spoons to Fire 75% of WeTransfer’s Staff After July Acquisition

Bending Spoons acquired file-sharing platform WeTransfer in July and has now laid off 75% of WeTransfer's staff.

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2024-9-10 18:31

Nikon President Believes RED Acquisition Will Increase Market Share

As soon as Nikon announced its surprising acquisition of the U.S.-based cinema company, RED, in March, people began speculating about what the move would mean for Nikon and RED cameras alike. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-7-24 19:29

Lensrentals Acquisition to End the BorrowLenses Brand, Close CA Location

Yesterday, Lensrentals announced that it had acquired "select assets" of BorrowLenses from Shutterfly, including the branding and assets. The company confirmed to PetaPixel today that it doesn't include employees or the physical San Carlos, California location. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-3-9 01:29

Adobe Pays $1 Billion to Terminate $20 Billion Figma Acquisition

Adobe has abandoned its $20 billion takeover bid for design platform Figma. The prolonged acquisition attempt has been wrought with regulatory opposition in the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-12-18 18:43

UK Watchdog Halts Adobe’s Acquisition of Figma

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the competition watchdog in the United Kingdom, has provisionally determined that Adobe's proposed $20 billion acquisition of Figma would be harmful to the marketplace. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-11-29 18:57

BOOM Fails to Pay Photographers Inherited from its Acquisition of LemonOne

Tech startup BOOM, which said it wanted to be the "Amazon for photography," has allegedly failed to pay photographers that it inherited from its acquisition of LemonOne due to financial difficulties. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-11-11 19:10

What’s Really Behind Getty Images’ Acquisition of Unsplash

It was so close to the first of April, it sounded like an April’s fool hoax: the gentle freedom-loving all sharing company would be selling to the greedy capitalistic money-making titan. Or, in other words, Getty Images was acquiring Unsplash. petapixel.com »

2021-5-2 19:05

My Thoughts on the SmugMug Flickr Acquisition

Yesterday, we learned that the photo-sharing site Flickr has been acquired by the photo sharing site SmugMug. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Flickr was purchased by Yahoo back in the early days of the internet in 2005 for probably somewhere around $40 million (give or take $10 million). Yahoo managed Flickr for many […] petapixel.com »

2018-4-21 19:32

500px acquired by Chinese licensing giant Visual China Group

500px—the photo sharing community and licensing marketplace that once seemed like it would singlehandedly take down a floundering Flickr—has been acquired by Visual China Group (VCG), the world's third-largest visual content provider and a company that has been called the "Getty Images of China. dpreview.com »

2018-2-27 23:06

I’m Unashamedly a Photographer Suffering from Gear Acquisition Syndrome

I'm an amateur photo-hobbyist living in Tokyo, Japan. I picked up photography around 3 years ago, thinking I could jump into a new realm of world that I've never understood before. Prior to picking up a camera, I was a normal college undergrad who puts studying first before most of my hobbies; however, photography taught me that I should cherish the people and the moments around me and try to remember them especially as a foreigner living in a wonderful place like Japan. thephoblographer.com »

2017-10-20 07:00

30 Tips to Conquer G.A.S. (Gear Acquisition Syndrome)

Why is it that we think that buying a new camera will help us become more creative with our photography? Why do we think that buying more lenses and gear will help us break out of our “photographer’s block”? Why is it that whenever we buy a new camera, lens, or tripod — we suddenly revert back to baseline enthusiasm after 2 weeks? thephoblographer.com »

2016-11-2 13:02