While there’s been no official word from either company, confirmation is out on the Web that Yahoo has acquired Flickr, the photo sharing company. Rumors of such a deal have been circulating for weeks. Flickr is a Web-based photo sharing system that allows users to add tags to photos, making them easy to search. Not only can the person who posted the photo create tags and write comments, but so can the people invited to view
them.
Yahoo Buys Flickr Photo-Sharing Service
Posted by: Susan B. Shor March 21, 2005 03:40 PMWhile there’s been no official word from either company, confirmation is out on the Web that Yahoo has acquired Flickr, the photo sharing company. Rumors of such a deal have been circulating for weeks. Flickr is a Web-based photo sharing system that allows users to add tags to photos, making them easy to search. Not only can the person who posted the photo create tags and write comments, but so can the people invited to view
them.