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Getty Images Not Getting Great Acquisition Bids

In a superficial sense, there are a couple of similarities between Yahoo and Getty Images: the first word of both companies' names contains five letters, and both companies' stocks are worth between $24 and $30 per share.  Here's one more parallel: like Yahoo, Getty Images can't seem to get as much money as it wants from would-be acquirers.

Getty Images Falls Victim to the Changes of the Internet

It seems like every week there’s another example of how the Internet has toppled business models that have been in place longer than the Internet itself. Control is not really possible when there are so many ways to pirate or undercut sales. The newspaper, music, movie, and now images market are changing drastically (and I love to read Seth Godin’s take on the changes).

Getty Images For Sale

Getty Images, the world's largest supplier of pictures and video to the media is for sale.

MySpace Launches Channel For Celebrities

MySpace has launched MySpace Celebrity, a channel focused on entertainment culture, news, blogs, videos, and events. The social networking site wants MySpace Celebrity to be a popular online destination for celebrities to communicate directly with their fans in the MySpace community. The site has 300 official celebrity MySpace profiles on the new channel, including actors, musicians, athletes, comedians and socialites.

Getty Images Offers Music Service

Getty Images, known for its stock photos, has launched its new music licensing service called Soundtrack, which will focus on offering music tracks to broadcasters, filmmakers and advertisers.

Getty Images Under Pressure

I'm sitting here listening to Jonathan Klein talk with a variety of bloggers. Thomas Hawk, CEO of Zooomr, and Kristopher Tate, Founder of Zooomr, a photosharing site are here too. So is Marshall from TechCrunch.