Kodak’s stock price has gone on quite a roller coaster ride over the past week after the company announced a $765M US loan to pivot into generic drug production. But it’s not just the price people are talking about — unusual trading activity and a stock option grant to Kodak’s CEO are also making headlines. […]
Activist investor Daniel Loeb is reportedly using the current low stock prices to build a bigger stake in Sony and “push for changes,” including spinning off the brand’s image sensor business into a separate entity called Sony Technologies.
Want a camera stabilizer that’s sure to attract (perhaps unwanted) attention? Just add a rifle-style stock to it. Alex over at I did a thing made this humorous 5-minute video showing how he built such a stabilizer for his own DSLR.
Fyre Festival was a “luxury music festival” that failed spectacularly back in 2017 after attracting a huge amount of interest with a viral photo and video marketing blitz. Shutterstock has released this 30-second video to show how the wildly expensive Fyre Festival promo video could have been created at a tiny fraction of the cost. […]
In addition to its Cloak and Scribbler projects, Adobe also used its MAX 2017 conference to offer a sneak peek of a technology called Scene Stitch. It’s like Content-Aware Fill on steroids: instead of guessing the fill content with details from the photo, Scene Stitch uses AI and a database of images to find content […]
Five years ago, after seeing losses of $2.9 billion, Sony announced that it would be focusing its efforts on dominating three things: games, mobile, and image sensors. Well, the company just announced record quarterly profits and its ambitious plans for global sensor domination are still alive and well. Reuters reports that Sony just announced a […]
Adobe has received criticism ever since it first announced its Creative Cloud subscription program. But business has been booming since the launch, and that trend doesn’t look like it’s going to change anytime soon.
500px has been one of the biggest players in the photo sharing and photographer community spaces for many years now. The company has branched out adding its own stock offering and today has announced some exciting new features, starting with their development of a brand new photographer directory.
Since Adobe released its text-to-image generative AI tool, Firefly, last year, the company had to grapple with diverse new challenges. Adobe Stock, perhaps as much as any of Adobe's platforms, had to adapt quickly. [Read More]
EyeEm, a marketplace for photographers to sell stock images, has come up with a solution for the annoying problem of having to collect separate model releases for multiple photos that contain the same person.
GoPro has had a rough few years, with its stock falling from over $80 a share in 2014 to less than $10 a share today. Working to turn its fortunes around, GoPro just announced that it has trimmed another 270 jobs in order to reduce expenses. This is the second round of job cuts in […]
Earlier this summer, Adobe made some sweeping changes to Adobe Stock, primarily aimed at protecting real artists from AI-generated harm on the platform. PetaPixel got a preview of some other new features, which have now arrived to Stock. [Read More]
After over half a century as a privately-held business, the Swedish lighting company Profoto went public today, listing its shares on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange. As a public company, Profoto is now required to publicly disclose its financial performance for the first time.
Here are our top tips for incorporating the resurgence of all things hygge into your Licensing portfolio—while creating seasonal stock photos that sell. The post How to capture hygge in commercial photography appeared first on 500px.
Kodak’s stock skyrocketed severalfold today, and it had nothing to do with the company’s long-established business in the world of photography. News broke that Kodak had secured at $765 million loan from the US government to shift its attention to producing ingredients for generic drugs.
This is going to be the strangest (and most controversial) piece of photo industry news you’ll read today. According to a report published by the reputable Japanese magazine Sentaku, the Japanese government is trying to convince Fuji to ‘help’ Nikon by buying a stake in the troubled camera company. The birth of this rumor/report is, […]
Reuters and Adobe have teamed up to beef up the content available through Adobe’s stock content service. The world’s largest international multimedia news provider is making its editorial content and 60+ million asset archive accessible through Adobe Stock.