MySpace reportedly in talks to buy Photobucket for $250 million

[mandy]

After losing to Google in his bid to buy out YouTube last year, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch reportedly has set his sights on a $250 million deal to buy out photo- and video-sharing site Photobucket. Such a deal would come just weeks after a public dispute between Photobucket and News Corp.'s MySpace...

Photobucket and MySpace, owned by News Corp., have so far kept mum about the deal, failing to respond to interview requests from journalists. The two companies reportedly have tackled the most salient points of the deal and now only need to come to a consensus on a few remaining details.

Photobucket is by far the No. 1 photo-sharing site on the Internet with some 41 million users and 80,000 new users registering every day,...

full article: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/hyU2...cket.xhtml

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Photobucket is by far the No. 1 photo-sharing site on the Internet with some 41 million users and 80,000 new users registering every day,...

I wish my image hosting site was worth that much..... I do get about 10-20 new users per week ;D

maybe someday it will get their???

[bargainbloodhound]

Last month MySpace was blocking Photobucket and Photobucket's co-founder was publicly bashing MySpace.  How quickly things change.  ;D

http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...143.0.html

[mandy]

Update: MySpace announced the acquisition of Photobucket and Flektor

Rupert Murdoch's Fox Interactive Media has purchased the photo-sharing site Photobucket as well as Web tool provider Flektor. The purchase price was undisclosed; however, it is rumored to be in the neighborhood of $250 million...

Photobucket "is expected to remain in operation as a stand-alone site" but its technology and tools will be shared with other FIM sites "as well as the more than 300,000 other Web sites linked to by Photobucket's users,"...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/GQCTHQr8...Deal.xhtml