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Photobucket Launches Enhanced Plug-In

Photobucket has announced the launch of the Photobucket Media Plug-in 2.0, an enhanced version if its image and video hosting plug-in.

comScore Launches Widget Metrix

comScore has announced the launch of comScore Widget Metrix, a new service that will track the use of widgets on the Web.

The Month of Acquisitions

There were numerous partnerships and acquisitions in the month of May, which included a lot of dollars changing hands. Let's look at some of the major deals that went down this past month

Fox Buys Photobucket and Flektor

Fox Interactive Media (FIM) has confirmed they are buying Photobucket and Flektor. Photobucket is a photo and video sharing service and Flektor allows users to create videos and slide shows with their photos.

Rumor: MySpace To Acquire Flektor

MySpace is rumored to be purchasing Flektor, a new startup that allows users to create widgets from photos, video and text, TechCrunch is reporting.

MySpace Acquires Photobucket - Now Confirmed

Although the deal has yet to be confirmed by either party, it appears that MySpace did, in fact, acquire Photobucket.  And although the figure $300 million has been mentioned, the terms of the arrangement (assuming such an arrangement exists) remain unknown.

MySpace & Photobucket Make Up

Last week, as Andy mentioned, MySpace blocked Photobucket videos and remixes from displaying on its members’ pages.

Users Spent 1740 Years At MySpace In March?

Google's not perfect. The company had a chance to acquire MySpace months before News Corp., at half the price. Rupert Murdoch called it arrogance that they didn't, and he was probably right. If you add the time spent on MySpace by users in March, it would equal 1740 years, according to Racepoint Group.

MySpace Users Learn Harsh Reality

When you host your stuff on a Web site that’s free and that you don’t control some nasty crap can happen. Yesterday MySpace started blocking Photobucket stuff.

Photobucket, MySpace Fighting Again

Embedded videos from Photobucket vanished from MySpace profiles as the two companies spar over digital content for the second time this year.