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Snapchat worth $4B
Snapchat — a photo app company started two-and-a-half years ago by two college students — reportedly just turned down an offer from Google of $4 billion. That’s about half the market capitalization of...
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$1.2M Twitter copyright award
In a landmark case, a photographer was awarded $1.2 million for unauthorized use of a photo he posted on Twitter. “A jury has awarded photographer Daniel Morel $1.2 million in damages after deciding...
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PhotoSecrets adds “lightning load”
Want to read Web pages immediately? Me too, so I’ve upgraded the PhotoSecrets website with coding I call “lightning load.” Now, each PhotoSecrets page appears on your browser almost instantly, as only...
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Yahoo eyes Imgur
$3B for Snapchat? That’s boring. In less than a month, the radar has turned to another photography website that is on the Christmas shopping list of a big company — Imgur. Contents Imgur and Yahoo...
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Yahoo eyes Imgur
$3B for Snapchat? That’s boring. In less than a month, the radar has turned to another photography website that is on the Christmas shopping list of a big company — Imgur. Contents Imgur and Yahoo...
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Google opens Google Open Gallery
Want to publish your portfolio? For free, with a slick layout? Now you can, as Google has made available to photographers a tool used by museums, Google Open Gallery. An extension of Google Cultural...
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PhotoSecrets 100 debuts
What are the most visited photography websites? That was a question I had while writing about the rise of Imgur, Snapchat and Instagram. So I’ve compiled a list and called it the PhotoSecrets 100....
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Sherlock Holmes and the public domain
Do fictional characters enter the public domain based on when they were first introduced, or when they were last developed? Now we know: it’s the former, thanks to the almost-a-detective-novel,...
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Instagram’s top locations of 2013
For the second year, we get to find out where Instagrammers like to take photos: Apparently, in shopping and entertainment locales in Thailand, California and New York. “Like last year, a popular...
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Tamrac goes bankrupt
Tamrac, a popular maker of camera bags, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company cited “weakened demand for point-and-shoot cameras, the economic recession … [and] a shrinking...
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JPEG is now lossless
JPEG is the most popular format to store digital photos but has one major drawback — it degrades the image upon every save. This forces high-end photos to be saved in RAW or TIFF formats, which are...
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500px Prime debuts
Photo-sharing website 500px has launched a licensing service called 500px Prime. Photographer’s get an attractive $175 (70% of $250) per licensed image, in exchange for “unlimited print and digital...
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Panasonic Lumix GH4
“The world’s first DSLM camera to record 4K videos” is the GH4 from Panasonic. The Digital Single Lens Mirrorless camera can record the Ultra HD format using a new Live MOS Sensor and Venus Engine....
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Google Trusted Photographer
Looking for a nice credential? Now you can become a “Google Trusted Photographer” and get hired to photograph businesses for Google Maps. And you get to add this nice badge to your website. “By...
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New photography domains
Looking for a cool web name? Can’t get myname.com? Now you can be myname.photography or feature your photos at myname.gallery or myname.photos. ICANN, the domain-name manager, has released several new...
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Nikon D4s: 16MP full-frame DSLR
The Nikon flagship camera has been updated, from D4 to D4s. Improvements include a new 16MP sensor, new processor (Expeed 4), higher ISO, faster burst speeds and reduced viewfinder blackout time. A...
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iStock adds subscriptions
Chasing market-leader Shutterstock, microstock agency iStock will now be offering subscription pricing. For iStock photographers, this is challenging, as royalty rates get down to 28 cents per image....
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Getty Images offers free embed images
In a radical move, the world’s largest stock agency is offering most of its images for free to blogs and editorial websites. Bloggers can add images at no cost using a simple iframe embed code. In...
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Getty Images ends licensing with Flickr
For five years, photographers on the popular photo-sharing site Flickr have been able to license their images through stock-leader Getty Images. Now no more, as Getty has pulled the plug. “Getty...
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Calumet goes bankrupt
Popular photography retailer Calumet Photographic abruptly closed all U.S. stores and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. Its European stores will remain open. Founded in 1939, the Chicago...
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