FaceTagram? InstaBook? Whatever You Call It, All Your Mobile Photo Are Belong to Facebook (for $1 Billion)!

Actually, it’s pretty simple: Photos. Photos. And, oh yes, mobile photos — lots and lots and lots of them.
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Luminate Raises $10.7M in New Funding, Adds Image App Store

Luminate, the Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making digital images interactive, said it had raised $10.7 million in a Series C round of funding, led by Nokia Growth Partners and also including existing investors. It also said it was launching an Image App Store to “provide a central location for publishers to browse and choose the specific image apps they wish to leverage for their sites.”

Viral Image: The Biggest and Bluest Marble

Our beautiful home in the deep, dark universe.
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Yahoo Reorgs U.S. Ad Sales After Talent Departure (Internal Memo, Natch!)

I love the smell of reorg in the morning!
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Survey Sez: Consumers Still Miffed at Netflix, but Give Even Bigger Kiss to Amazon

The hits from the online video service’s missteps just keep coming!
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It’s Called Google Propeller and It’s Aimed at Flipboard (and Facebook, Too, Natch)

Whhhheeeeeeeee! Up, up in the sky, its Google’s Flipboard killer, which also might strafe Facebook, too!
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At Least the Goat Rodeo at HP Lets Us Practice Our Photoshop Skills at ATD!

A picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of the traffic accident at Hewlett-Packard today, it pretty much says it all.
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Microsoft PR Ninja Strikes Back at Google Patent Whine With Email Jujitsu

Google waxes on, so Microsoft waxes off.
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Pixazza Changes Name to Luminate, Launches Image Apps Platform

Pixazza is dead. Long live Luminate.
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Viral Poster: “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part One”

Move along, nothing to see here, Twi-hards. No, really–nothing.
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Binging in the Holidays (With Donuts!)

Pulse News App for iPad Gets Social