Path: The Social App That's Not Viral (By Design)
Silicon Valley is in the midst of a mini photo-sharing app boomlet. We have Instagram (which started adding 100,000 users per week as soon as it launched last month), Picplz (which beat out Instagram...
View ArticleWill Secretary of State Clinton's "Internet Freedom Agenda" Finally Get...
Yesterday, in a major policy speech in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jumped on the Internet bandwagon again, unveiling a $25 million government investment for entrepreneurs to...
View ArticleAha! So This Is What You're Supposed to Do With Color!
Liz Gannes–along with many other people–has tried to explain what you’re supposed to do with Color, the photo-sharing app that’s much more than a photo-sharing app but in a hard-to-explain yet...
View ArticleCooliris Cleverly Makes Photo Sharing Instantaneous (Video)
Cooliris, which for the last five years has built all sorts of neat online and mobile media tools, has lately been working on some rather nifty technology to make photo-sharing much more instantaneous....
View ArticleKodak Seeks to Sell Online Photo-Sharing Business Kodak Gallery
In a bid to raise money to fund its turnaround, Eastman Kodak Co. is trying to sell its online photo-sharing business, Kodak Gallery, people familiar with the matter said. The people said the onetime...
View ArticleBrian Pokorny: Why Pick Just One Photo When You Can Share Batches? (Video)
Where, in the past, people might have printed out entire rolls of film, or kept on snapping as many pictures as their memory card would hold, mobile photo-sharing today often seems to be a more choosy...
View ArticleMove Over, Picasso: Smartphone Photos Become Works of Art
Seems like only yesterday we were talking about the shift from analog photos to digital images that consumers can obsessively share online — and get immediate gratification from in the form of “likes.”...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Gives a Facebook Photo App a Big Thumbs-Up
Here’s a new photo service you’re going to hear a lot more about in the very near future: Friendsheet describes itself as an “amazing new way to browse your Facebook photos.” On Tuesday afternoon, it...
View ArticleInstagram Close to Raising New Funds
Instagram is poised to raise a new round of financing that will value the popular photo-sharing application at as much as $500 million, people familiar with the matter said, despite some skepticism...
View ArticleFacebook Smacks Back at Yahoo With Patent Claims in Counter-Lawsuit
Facebook has just taken strong aim back at Yahoo’s patent lawsuit with an answer and counter-claim filing of its own, alleging infringement over a number of issues. “From the outset, we said we would...
View ArticleSay It Loud: ATD Relaunches the "Voices" Section
One of the least-changed parts of AllThingsD since we started this site has been our “Voices” section, which has attracted robust and ever-increasing traffic over the years. But today Voices gets a...
View ArticleUpdated S-1: Facebook's Yearly Revenue Growth Up 45 Percent, But Down Six...
Facebook filed an updated version of its S-1 public offering document today, which included somewhat disappointing first-quarter financials. In the new filing with the Securities and Exchange...
View ArticleThat $1B for Instagram? It's 23M Shares of Facebook + $300M in Cash (And a...
Here is a relevant and juicy new detail about Facebook’s acquisition of photo-sharing start-up Instagram, which is buried deep in the new S-1 document the social networking giant just filed: In April...
View ArticleFacebook IPO Docs Could Get Approval This Week, Followed by Road Show With...
According to sources close to the situation, Facebook is anticipating getting approval from government regulators to officially distribute its S-1 public offering prospectus to investors within days,...
View ArticleInvestors Told Facebook IPO Will Be in $34 to $38 Price Range
According to several sources close to the situation, investors are being told that the IPO price range for Facebook will be from $34 to $38 a share. That means the highest valuation will be just over...
View ArticleCaterina Fake's Pinwheel Is Now Called Findery, After Trademark Dispute
Pinwheel, the geotagged memory service from Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, is now called Findery. That’s after a photo-sharing start-up called Pinweel got a preliminary injunction for trademark...
View ArticleFamiliar Raises $1.3M for Social Screen Savers and Slideshows
If you’ve taken a personal pledge to stop reading blog posts about photo-sharing apps, you’d best stop now. But if you want to hear about a little start-up that’s breathing new life into some tired old...
View ArticleTrue&Co Co-Founder Ramamurthy Joins Battery as EIR
Aarthi Ramamurthy, who co-founded personalized intimate apparel online retailer True&Co, has joined Battery Ventures as an entrepreneur in residence to “pursue disruptive e-commerce initiatives.”...
View ArticleAs Instagram Debuts Web Profiles, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Facebook
Welcome to the new era of Instagram. Brought to you by Facebook. Instagram launched Web profiles on Monday morning, the first true attempt from the photo-sharing service to provide users with a more...
View ArticleAndreessen Horowitz Distributes Facebook-Instagram Shares, But Holds Bulk of...
According to a new filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, high-profile Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has distributed just over three million shares of Facebook that it got...
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