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News Corp to Purchase Photobucket

DJCacophony writes "Reuters is reporting that Newscorp, having already purchased Myspace, is purchasing the image hosting site Photobucket for between 250 and 300 million dollars. The story details how Photobucket and Myspace, which have previously had disputes over advertising on each others' sites, will now be integrated with each other. The deal is still very much on the table, apparently, and may yet fall through. 'While hardly known outside the youthful world of social network sites, Photobucket has become wildly popular with users for providing free, online storage tools for multimedia self-expression, from photos to videos to digital slideshows. Site builders turn to it for images to decorate their sites. The four-year-old startup, based in Palo Alto, California, has signed up 41 million registered users, up from 32 million at the end of last year and 2 million in 2004. It now hosts nearly 2.8 billion images on the site.'"

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  1. HisSpace to acquire Profitbucket by AHuxley · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Alex: What happen ?
    Darren: Somebody sold up us the out.
    Operator: We get video conference.
    Alex: What !
    Darren: Main lcd turn on.
    Murdoch: How are you gentlenerds !!
    Murdoch: All your images are belong to us.
    Murdoch: You are on the way to assimilation.
    Alex: What you say !!
    Murdoch: You have no chance to profit sell your site.
    Murdoch: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
    Operator: Alex !! *
    Alex: Take off every 'Dig' !!
    Alex: You know what you doing.
    Alex: Move 'Dig'.
    Alex: For great justice.

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  2. Re:God Save the Queen !! Please, Save Her NOW !! by froggero1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't get this troll... can someone please explain it?

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  3. Murdoch will never get away with this... by stud9920 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    McGyver won't let him.