Google Goes on Picnik, Acquires Company
Google has acquired yet another company and this one is the owner of an online picture editing application.
Picnik is described as one of the first sites to bring photo editing to the cloud. The application allows you to import and edit photos inside your browser and is integrated with an array of websites, including Picasa, Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo! Mail and Photobucket.
The Picnik team announced the acquisition via the company's blog yesterday afternoon and assured users that for now, not much will change. Google echoed these comments with its own blog post.
"We're not announcing any significant changes to Picnik today, though we'll be working hard on integration and new features," said Brian Axe, product management director at Google.
Axe goes on to say that the company will continue to support all of Picnik's current partners, which includes search and online photo storage rival, Yahoo!.
Read about the acquisition from Google or from the Picnik team.
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I bet the company updated it using Buzz through their new 1Gb/s internet from Google. Maybe they whole-sale bought their power from Google too....You've got to wonder what Google is up to now with all these buy-outs....
Heh, another step towards world domination by Google.
Please refer to my comment about the town changing it's name to google applies here as well
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I'll stick with Paint.Net thanks
I'm telling you, Google is like, buy buy buy buy. acquire acquire acquire.
monopolize monopolize monopolize then... dominate dominate dominate.
You are right, lotri.
Google becomes how it is today is because a lot of users are using its serives. If you guy dont want Google to monopolize then stop using Google.
I'll be happy if the world is dominated by Google. Nearly everything from them is free, ^_^.
Heh, another step towards world domination by Google.
I would gladly allow that if the world turns to be a giant googleplex. Man, is that place awesome or what?!
Not much different from other mainstream acquisition sprees. Over the past 40 years Bershire Hathaway acquired over 80 companies. You'd be surprised at some of the companies Berkshire owns. Proctor and Gamble did pretty good too.
I'll stick with Paint.Net thanks
Agreed. That and GIMP = FTW.
I can't wait to see the Google contextual ads when people are editing images. There's going to be some fun to have there... Will you see weight loss ads when you're trying to airbrush a fat girl out of a picture?
congrats
I'm telling you, Google is like, buy buy buy buy. acquire acquire acquire.monopolize monopolize monopolize then... dominate dominate dominate.You are right, lotri.
buy aquire monopolize dominate...give away for free? Not quite the typical business model.
buy aquire monopolize dominate...give away for free? Not quite the typical business model.
The monopolize part implies that once they purchase every single competition, they'll charge us eaxh fifty billion trilion dollars/ pounds to send an email, or something.
Basically, once they have the market to themselves, people are worried they'll abuse it; and rightly so. Remember Microso- I mean, notice Microsoft?
I bet the company updated it using Buzz through their new 1Gb/s internet from Google. Maybe they whole-sale bought their power from Google too....You've got to wonder what Google is up to now with all these buy-outs....
Same thing they do every night Brendano, try and take over the world!
I'm telling you, Google is like, buy buy buy buy. acquire acquire acquire.monopolize monopolize monopolize then... dominate dominate dominate.You are right, lotri.
Google doesn't force people to use their shit...QQ!!!
I can't wait to see the Google contextual ads when people are editing images. There's going to be some fun to have there... Will you see weight loss ads when you're trying to airbrush a fat girl out of a picture?
No, but you will see ads for 4chan when you try to shoop Chris Hansen into the lower left corner.
Google doesn't force people to use their shit...QQ!!!
Neither does Microsoft....
Google has acquired yet another company....
That part of the title sums it up well. What's their roadmap these days, buy at least 25 companies per fiscal year now? Google is as it seems, on pace to be the next Microsoft of the 2010's. A little more time, more investments, numerous more acquisitions, and we will soon see anti-competitive lawsuits popping up.