Deal Radar 2008: Fotolia

Today’s Deal Radar company is New York-based Fotolia, a microstock photography site. The site offers quality images at low prices and is stiff competition for traditional stock photography sites such as Getty and Corbis as well as microstock photography sites such as iStockphoto and SnapVillage.

Deal Radar 2008: Flock

Flock is an open source web browser that has social networking features built into its interface. Founded by Bart Decrem, Geoffrey Arone, and Anthony Young in 2005, Flock is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has an office in Victoria, British Columbia.

Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 8)

SM: Why didn’t Flickr elect to work with you? JH: At the time we were competing with Yahoo Photos, and Flickr chose a small company who is producing product as their outsource manufacturer. That small company has signed up a number of sites who in the early days thought they were competing with Shutterfly. They

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News Corp. Charging Ahead

News Corp. has certainly been the most bold and dramatic dealmaker of 2007. Murdoch gets it. WSJ print revenues were up 7% in October and online revenues were up 30%. I have already discussed, why the WSJ acquisition is a good one, and suggested that the WSJ should go free. This week, Bear Sterns Analyst

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Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 5)

Synthesis and Conclusions For the year ended June 30, 2007, News Corp. earned $28.66 billion in revenues, $4.45 billion in operating income and $3.43 in net income. Fox Interactive Media (FIM) earned $10 million in profits on sales of $550 million in FY2007. FIM’s revenues in Q4 2007 doubled from the same quarter a year

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Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 1)

Introduction News Corporation is a $28.66 billion diversified media and entertainment company. The Company operates in eight business segments: Filmed Entertainment, Television, Cable Network Programming, Direct Broadcast Satellite Television, Magazines and Inserts, Newspapers, Book Publishing and Interactive Media primarily in the United States, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and the Pacific Basin. News

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Facebook’s Monetization Strategy (Part 2)

I would, personally, like to see them dominate not only Online Jobs, but also Online Photo Sharing. News Corp recently bought Photobucket as one of MySpace’s Monetization efforts. Photo sharing is one of the top segments and in the US the top 10 photo sharing sites draws around 50 million visitors each month. I have

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News Corp’s Vertical Posturing

News Corp has just acquired Photobucket in a strategic move to monetize its MySpace asset. My prior writings leading up to this acquisition are below: * News Corp : Bewildered Pioneer * Monetize the MySpace Parasites * Web 3.0 and Photobucket * Web 3.0 & Photo Sharing : Overview * Web 3.0 & Photosharing :

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