The BeBop Corporation has sued online rental studio platform Giggster for $25 million, alleging breach of contract and fraud over the sale of multiple photo publications including Outdoor Photographer and Imaging Resource.
Madavor Media, which owns multiple photography-centric publications including Imaging Resource, Digital Photo Pro, and Outdoor Photographer, has been acquired by music and theater-focused media platform the BeBop Channel.
CreativeLive has announced that it has acquired the website and content of Wildist.co, a provider of online courses for outdoor and adventure photography.
Fiverr has announced that it has acquired Seattle-based CreativeLive which was one of the first major online learning platforms that exploded in popularity in a few years after its launch in 2010.
After announcing that the publication would be closing down last October, photo industry mainstay Imaging Resource revealed today that they have been acquired by Madavor Media: the publisher of Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro, Digital Photo Magazine, and others.
After years of running hugely successful Kickstarter campaigns but widely failing to deliver on its promises, net SE (the company behind the revivals of Meyer Optik Görlitz and other vintage brands) filed for bankruptcy this year. Now a German company called OPC Optics has announced that it has acquired the rights to the Meyer Optik Görlitz brand and will be bringing it back to the market.
Huge news in the photo sharing world today: SmugMug just announced that it has acquired Flickr from Yahoo, which was itself acquired by Verizon last year. This deal "will create the most influential photography community in the world," SmugMug says.
500px has been acquired by Visual China Group (VCG), the Beijing, China-based photo and media agency that's known as "the Getty Images of China."
Shutterfly has announced that it has agreed to acquire Lifetouch, the employee-owned photography company best known for being the national leader in school pictures. The purchase price is $825 million in cash.
Apple has quietly acquired Invisage, the camera sensor startup company behind QuantumFilm, according to a new report.
The popular Nik Collection of photo editing software will live on. Just months after Google said that it was abandoning the brand and ending development, DxO has just announced that it has acquired Nik Collection from Google and will continue development "for the benefit of the photographer community."
The popular photography gear brands JOBY and Lowepro have just been acquired by Vitec Group, the parent company behind other popular industry brands such as Manfrotto.
Back in June, Micron announced that it would be discontinuing its Lexar retail removable storage business, which makes memory cards used by photographers around the world. But now it looks like the Lexar brand will live on: it has been acquired by the Chinese flash storage company Longsys.
Big news in the photo industry today: Polaroid's brand and intellectual property has been acquired by the largest shareholder of The Impossible Project, Polaroid announced. Now a single family has control of both the Polaroid brand and The Impossible Project.
The news that Casey Neistat and his team at Beme was going to be joining CNN to do ... something? ... and that this acquisition cost CNN a reported $25 million has been met with mixed reactions. Here to set the record straight on a few FAQs about the deal is Neistat himself.
Last week, we told you that Casey Neistat was saying goodbye to his hugely popular daily vlog. Today, we found out what he's planning to do next.
Here's an amazing find: the George Eastman Museum has announced that it has acquired two unopened boxes of 1880s Kodak film.
Ricoh has announced that it's acquiring Eyefi's Cloud service, the photo hosting product that was launched in April 2014. Eyefi will continue to own and sell its Wi-Fi-enabled SD memory cards, now called the Mobi Pro, which it has long been known for.
The European investment group AURELIUS announced today that it has acquired Calumet Photographic and Bowens Lighting, two well known brands in the world of photography. The sale will allow Calumet to expand its retail stores in new cities in Europe.
It happened. Seven months after announcing the planned acquisition and one quarter ahead of schedule, Western Digital has officially acquired SanDisk, "creating a global leader in storage technology."
Earlier today you may have heard some strange news if you're a user of the image theft detection service Pixsy. In an email to its users, the company indicated that it has been acquired by none other than Getty Images.
Facebook is spending dough to battle Snapchat on the casual photography front: the company just acquired MSQRD, a face-swapping camera app that has been exploding in popularity among smartphone users.
One of the largest photo collections in the world was just sold. Corbis, which is owned by Bill Gates, has sold off its images business to Visual China Group, China's equivalent of Getty Images. VCG is the same company that led a $13 million investment in 500px in 2015, and which is partnering with 500px to expand into China.
Phase One today announced that it has acquired Mamiya and its medium format camera factories in Japan. The move will give the Danish Phase One more muscle in the medium format photography market.
Eyefi is best known for its Wi-Fi-capable memory cards that allow photos to be beamed to computers and mobile devices directly from cameras. Wi-Fi is appearing as a built-in feature in more and more cameras, though, and Eyefi has been pivoting its business in recent days.
Today the company jumped into the world of mobile apps by announcing that it has acquired OKDOTHIS, the photography inspiration app and community that was created in 2012 by photographer Jeremy Cowart and the Nashville-based app startup Aloompa.
SanDisk just succeeded in its mission to get bought out. Hard drive maker Western Digital announced today that it has agreed to acquire SanDisk in a deal worth about $19 billion in cash and stock. If all goes well, the deal will close in the third quarter or 2016.
Back in April, the lighting company Photoflex unexpectedly announced that it would be closing shop after 30 years in the business, to the disappointment of many. Later that month, the struggling company revealed that it was working on a deal to allow the brand to live on. They succeeded.
Photoflex announced yesterday that it has been acquired by the lighting company PromarkBRANDS. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
This past Monday, GoPro announced that it has acquired Kolor, a French company that's pioneering the use of 360-degree cameras for immersive virtual reality.
Apple has acquired LinX, an Israeli camera module company that is trying to revolutionize the mobile photography industry with state-of-the-art cameras that are extremely small yet powerful enough to lead "the way to DSLR performance in slim handsets."
Having a great mobile experience is key in a day and age when a huge chunk of the online experience is had on a smartphone screen, and Yahoo! is continuing its march towards a great mobile experience today by acquiring the photo app maker Cooliris.