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Photobucket Sees 14x Increase in Mobile Video Uploads in Six Months

There may be a lot of websites and services offering to store your photos online, but there seems to be plenty of room for everyone. While, in terms of sheer numbers, Facebook is untouchable, when it comes to dedicated sites the competition is tighter. Photobucket, one of the biggest stand-alone photo sharing site...

29 August 2011
10:01 GMT

Twitter Enables Photo Uploads and Sharing for All Users

Twitter has rolled out its photo sharing feature, which it unveiled a couple of months ago. Twitter has confirmed that all users can now attach images to their tweets directly. The feature is only available on the main, desktop site, but it's coming to the Twitter mobile apps soon."All users can now easily share...

10 August 2011
04:54 GMT

Download Twitter 2.1.1 for Mac OS X with Photos Support, Better Search

The latest update from Twitter brings the ability to view photos uploaded to the micro-blogging service without having to access additional services, like Twitpic.“Follow your interests: instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what’s happening around the world. Get s...

2 June 2011
08:33 GMT

Twitter Unveils Photo Service, Partnering with Photobucket

Twitter has unveiled its new photo service and it's a bit different from what most people expected. Twitter will indeed enable users to upload photos from the site and official apps and have them displayed inline, but will not be hosting the photos itself, Photobucket will take care of that behind the scenes."Mi...

2 June 2011
04:11 GMT

Photobucket Tops 8 Billion Uploaded Photos

Ever since it was launched, Photobucket provided users with a safe and exhaustive platform to upload images and photos, then easily share them. Recently, this service has reached an amazing milestone: 8 billion uploads and counting.Photobucket Corporation, the company maintaining this successful platform, is constan...

15 December 2010
11:44 GMT

PhotoBucket and Ontela Merge

One of the most successful start-ups in recent years, Ontela, has agreed to join forces with the Internet's biggest photo storage service, PhotoBucket. The new company will be known as PhotoBucket Corporation and will be run by Ontela's chief financial officer, Tom Munro. He will be president of the new ent...

18 December 2009
10:09 GMT

MySpace Is Looking for Buyers for Photobucket

Despite a new-found wave of enthusiasm at MySpace, the social network's decline shows no sign of stopping anytime soon. News Corp., MySpace's parent company, isn't doing great financially either, so rumors that the companies are looking to get rid of Photobucket, the popular photo-sharing site acquired...

17 October 2009
04:05 GMT

Get a Free Pro Account at Photobucket with McDonalds

Photobucket has partnered with McDonalds to give its users the possibility to benefit from three months’ worth of their Pro Account. By simply adding a photo or video to the McDonalds Group Album users will shortly receive a free three-month Pro Account. After introducing Pro accounts earlier this month, Photo...

23 September 2009
04:48 GMT

Photobucket Makes Changes, Not All Well Received

Photobucket, one of the biggest media hosting websites around, recently introduced paid membership accounts for its services. The company also introduced the possibility to send images to a user's mobile device directly from their website through the usage of a simple “Send to phone” button in the im...

2 September 2009
10:09 GMT

Photobucket Workforce Cut by One-Third

The layoffs at Fox Interactive Media, News Corp's digital media arm, continue after the massive demissions at MySpace, owned by News Corp, US and international offices. Photo-sharing and hosting site Photobucket, also part of FIM, is feeling the heat, as one-third of the company's 120 employees have been fi...

26 June 2009
10:08 GMT

Photobucket Visual Search Powered by Silverlight

Over 70 million registered users worldwide will be able to enjoy Photobucket's new Visual Search feature, powered by Microsoft's alternative to Flash, Silverlight. In order to evolve the online digital image repository, Photobucket worked with Microsoft and EffectiveUI, indicating that the challenge was to ...

16 June 2009
10:01 GMT

New Nokia-Compatible Photobucket Mobile Photo Application

Photobucket, the standalone photo and video sharing site, announced on Monday the introduction of a new free Nokia-compatible mobile photo application at the Ovi Store, meant to offer Nokia mobile phone users around the world the possibility to easily access images on the website, while also allowing them to access p...

2 June 2009
04:28 GMT

Photobucket Mobile Uploader Available for T-Mobile Users

T-Mobile users have yet another reason to rejoice, as Photobucket announced that a new mobile photo service was available for them. Through the new service mobile users will be able to send photos directly from their handset to various destinations such as a Photobucket album, a personal computer, or even an email ad...

20 March 2009
10:10 GMT

Ask.com Tries to Win Some Points in the Search Engines Battle

The Ask.com team has decided to give itself a boost and, at the same time, move closer to the hearts of the users who conduct online searches. The company has just announced a multi-annual partnership with Photobucket, the famous photo and video-sharing website. For starters, an Ask.com search box will be "prominentl...

11 July 2008
03:56 GMT

New Girl Fight Reaches the Web

We live in a cruel world and in case you don't want to admit it, go over to YouTube, search for teenager fights and think about it. Two weeks ago, a couple of girls recorded a clip with one of their friends beating another girl and posted the video on the web. The audience could be heard laughing while the teen ...

21 April 2008
10:03 GMT

Yahoo Grows Up, Reaches the Second Position

The Yahoo photo sharing service Flickr grew up a lot and is now the second most popular product in its category with approximately 38 percent market share in the latest four weeks. According to a recent statistic published by Hitwise, Photobucket is the leader in the United States with 43.5 percent market share. The ...

11 July 2007
06:02 GMT

Yahoo in Trouble: Photobucket Receives OK to Be Bought!

Photobucket, an online photo sharing service, will be acquired soon by the Fox Interactive Media, a large company that owns several famous names such as MySpace. The deal was rumored a long time ago but the two firms needed the approval of the Federal Trade Commission in order to finalize the transaction. According t...

6 July 2007
05:51 GMT

MySpace to Google: Take YouTube and We'll Buy Photobucket

Today, MySpace managed to acquire Photobucket, the famous photo sharing service, for about $250 million. The company was looking for a buyer since March when they announced that the service is available to anyone who pays $300 million. TechCrunch sustained the two firms first negotiated the acquisition one month ago,...

8 May 2007
05:09 GMT


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