Google Buys Picnik Photo-Editing Site
Author: John Duckgeischel
on March 2, 2010 - 8:42 AM
Google has
added the Picnik photo-editing to its string of recent acquisitions. The price paid for the small company was not
disclosed. Google already owns Picasa
which it bought back in 2004, which offers some similar photo organizing and
enhancing features. Picnik further
enhances Google’s abilities with the service which supports the ability to
import photos from Flickr, owned by Yahoo, as well as from Facebook. "Picnik [is] one of the first sites to
bring photo editing to the cloud," Brian Axe, product management director
at Google, blogged. "Using Picnik, you can crop, do touch-ups and add cool
effects to your photos, all without leaving your Web browser. The first step will be integration of the
product with Google.
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