Photo sharing —
Have you heard of Zooomr? Maybe, maybe not. The small company wants to compete with Flickr to serve all your photo sharing needs. If you haven’t followed the Zooomr story, while trying to launch a new version of their site recently (so-called “Zooomr Mark III”) , the company’s site was down for two [...]
Techcrunch is reporting that the photo sharing company Photobucket is to be acquired by News Corp company MySpace. At the end of March, I wrote a blog on how to value photo widget / photo sharing companies. I predicted then that anyone who wanted to acquire Photobucket would have to pay significantly more [...]
Photo sharing, and photo widget, companies are a fascinating category of business… but how do you go about valuing them? These businesses have potentially huge user bases, but the services they offer are mostly free. So revenues that come directly from users are pretty low. Instead the lion’s share of revenues from [...]