14 DAY TRIAL // Just one week after releasing Yahoo 360, the company debut in blogging services, Yahoo takes over a picture exchange facilitating website, Flickr.
The service allows users to upload pictures from PC-s or mobile phones, to publish online photo albums and to post online diaries.
Yahoo made quite a good deal considering the 270,000 former Flickr subscribers "bonus" in just one takeover and the consistent user database, as existing ubscribers already share more than 4 million subscribers.
Taking over this website and the adjacent service occurs in less than one month after the Yahoo "boss", Jerry Yang announced the company intent to improve the imaging features of the site and its associated features.
Such intents began materializing after the release of Yahoo 360, providing users with several communication facilities: instant messaging, picture storage and radio streaming.
The service also provides a solution for sharing recommendations in various categories: public spots, restaurants, movies, music or any other type of human interaction.
The financial details of the takeover were kept secret, and no deadline was announced for integrating the new technology into the released blogging service.
Taking over a site specialized in photography and imaging is old news, as Yahoo's main rival, Google had already made the first step last year, when taking over the Picasa technology, and later on the Hello.com picture sharing technologies.
MSN will most likely react soon, releasing a similar solution too.
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