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#4417285 - 04/21/18 04:39 PM flickr bought by smugmug  
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Only time will tell if we are heading for another Photobucket type debacle.

USA Today article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/20/smugmug-buys-flickr-verizon-oath/537377002/

Originally Posted by Jessica Guynn @ USA Today
Flickr has been snapped up by Silicon Valley photo-sharing and storage company SmugMug, USA TODAY has learned.

SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill told USA TODAY he's committed to breathing new life into the faded social networking pioneer, which hosted photos and lively interactions long before it became trendy.

SmugMug, an independent, family-run company, will maintain Flickr as a standalone community of amateur and professional photographers and give the long neglected service the focus and resources it deserves, MacAskill said in an exclusive interview.

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The majority of Flickr users have free accounts that run advertising alongside photos. Flickr also offers “Pro” subscriptions for $6 a month or $50 a year.

MacAskill says he does not yet know what his plans are for Flickr’s business.

“I don’t know what the future holds. This is a new model for me,” he said. “We certainly think we need to operate it with an eye to our cash flow and our profitability. We are going to have to take a detailed look at the business and make sure it’s growing and healthy.”



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#4417295 - 04/21/18 05:08 PM Re: flickr bought by smugmug [Re: wheelsup_cavu]  
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Well wasn't Flickr part of Yahoo? Somehow I thought they were, and when Yahoo was getting shuffled around, I wondered how any of the other websites they owned might also be handled.


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#4417299 - 04/21/18 05:14 PM Re: flickr bought by smugmug [Re: wheelsup_cavu]  
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From the same article.
Quote
The surprise deal ends months of uncertainty for Flickr, whose fate had been up in the air since last year when Yahoo was bought by Verizon for $4.5 billion and joined with AOL in Verizon’s Oath subsidiary.

Oath has started to weed out some of its assets after merging AOL and Yahoo. Earlier this month, Oath sold Polyvore, the e-commerce company it acquired under Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.

The mostly free Flickr was founded in 2004 and played a central role in the cultural and social life of the Internet. Friendships were forged on Flickr as people shared photographs and others commented on them.

Seems from reading between the lines that Yahoo's assets are going to be sold off piecemeal.


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