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Flickr may be up for sale as Yahoo Board of Directors looks to shed web properties

The future of Yahoo and its many operations, including the photo sharing behemoth Flickr, is uncertain. According to reports, the company’s board is now accepting bids for its web properties, with a deadline of two weeks to submit proposals.

While Yahoo has not specifically said which operations are up for sale, they have given hints to what a new, slimmed-down Yahoo might look like. According to Reuters, if the board’s restructure goes through as planned, Yahoo will center around Yahoo Search, Mail and Tumblr, as well as four ‘digital content strongholds,’ which include News, Sports, Finance and Lifestyle.

This seems to indicate that at least according the company’s board, Flickr has no place in the future of Yahoo. But not so fast – there are several other factors at play that could put the kibosh on a sale altogether.

One of these factors is an attempted hostile takeover of Yahoo’s board by activist investor Starboard Value. Many shareholders, unhappy with financial results, have run out of patience with the current boards plan to turn Yahoo around. This is where Starboard Value comes in. Last Thursday, they announced their intent to overthrow CEO Marissa Mayer, and presented a list of nine alternative board members to replace the current board at the annual shareholder meeting in June.

If Yahoo is unable to get the ball rolling on sales of its assets before June, there’s a chance that a new board will be ushered in, and move the company in a different direction entirely.

On the other hand, more than 40 companies have expressed interest in owning a piece of Yahoo, including Microsoft, Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Time and many more. Whether or not any of those companies specifically have an interest in Flickr is difficult to say. As of June 2015, Flickr had a formidable 112 million active users. That’s not quite the 400 million users Instagram claims to have, but its still a sizable community. For the record, Flickr was first purchased by Yahoo back in 2005, for $ 25 million.

All the while, Mayer is sticking to her plan for turning around the company, which includes laying off 15 percent of the company’s workforce, closing unprofitable ventures, all while spinning off Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba Group as well as Yahoo Japan into a separate company.

Needless to say, if you’re in the market for a photo sharing site, now’s the time to bust out the checkbook and make an offer. We just hope if Flickr does make its way into new hands that it goes to a good home.

Via Reuters and The Associated Press

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March 30, 2016
SIBUTRAMINE FOR SALE – No Prescription DrugStore

So you like to shoot landscapes. When the weekend rolls around you like nothing more than to pack up your camera and head to somewhere pretty and photogenic, a place filled with trees and dappled sunlight or snow and rocks. You probably already have a hard drive filled with beautiful photos of beautiful places. It would just be great if you could sell them.

You can sell them. It takes effort and planning. The sales won’t pile in overnight. But it is possible to turn a love of landscape photography into a revenue stream — and possibly even a career.

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September 27, 2015
PIX 2015 re:FRAME single day passes on sale, speaker schedule posted

The days are ticking down to PIX 2015, our interactive photo expo on October 6 & 7. We’re excited to announce some new speakers have been added to our re:FRAME lineup and that single day passes are now on sale. Now’s the time to make your PIX plans! Join us online or in Seattle for two days of hands-on photography activities, inspirational talks and practical demonstrations. Read more

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September 11, 2015
Nifty Fifty Flash Sale!

Today only, we’re throwing a Flash Sale with five products at 50% off and YOU choose which five! We trust your opinion.

VOTE for your faves from now until 12PM EST

Winners go on sale from 12PM-2PM EST.

Nifty, eh?

Cast your vote as many times as you want and enlist your friends to vote … maybe even bribe them into voting for your favorite.

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June 30, 2015
Grimm Abandonment: Derelict Australian Fairy Tale Park for Sale

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Inspired by classical fairy tales, this deserted theme park recently opened its doors to an urban explorer and photographer, giving outsiders a glimpse into the current state of the place as well as its potential to be reborn in the hands of the right buyer. Traveling to the site from Tasmania, Urbexography has done a remarkable job at documenting this strangely magical place.

From the Fantasy Glades website: “In the 1960’s a family of ‘Little People’ George and Rosemary Whitaker, along with their children James and Lynette, and Rosemary’s parents, Aub and Lin Gribble, set out on a journey from Sydney to Port Macquarie in NSW Australia with a dream to create their very own children’s Fairy Tale Theme Park.” It was closed 35 years later in 2002 and has remained so since.

The main attractions were based on the works of the Brothers Grimm, aided by the experience of the park’s founders in theatrical stage and set design work around such themes. Located in a patch of natural bushland at Parklands Close in Port Macquarie, the location features Snow White’s cottage, bedrooms of the Seven Dwarves and other features of similarly famous fairy tales and fables.

Whether the magic is gone forever or can be maintained and rebuilt is ultimately a question of economics – the current owners would love nothing more than to sell the place to someone who has an interest in bringing it back to life.

In the words of the photographer: “Fantasy Glades was an absolutely magical, special place for many people including myself as a child and also my children when they were little. It has been visited and enjoyed by numerous families from all around the world since 1968 when it first opened. Fantasy Glades is a hidden piece of paradise in one of Australia’s best locations.”

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June 24, 2015
Magnum offers signed square prints for $100 in limited edition sale

Photo agency Magnum is offering prints from 50 of its photographers in a limited edition sale with each print costing $ 100. In a similar event to the one it ran last year, the agency challenged a collection of its photographers to find ‘an image that changes everything’ from their archive. The images will be made into 6×6″ prints, most of which will be signed by the photographer. Read more

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June 10, 2015
Special Special Sale!

Oh yes, a doubly special sale is here.

Some of our biggest discounts ever on never before seen treasures and PJ goodies from the days of ‘yore.

We’ve even thrown in some brand new items with less than perfect packaging. Poor things were feeling like Misfit Toys, but we’ve seen enough claymation movies to know that they’re not misfits … they’re extra special!

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April 29, 2015
(Not) for Sale: Get Paid $5K to Haul Away ‘Skyway to Nowhere’

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280,000 pounds of glass, steel and concrete spanning over 80 feet, this remarkable structure was built to span city streets and sidewalks in Minneapolis but has storied history that goes well beyond its original usage. Today, this historic wonder can be yours for a remarkable sum of negative $ 5,000 – indeed, its owners will pay you to take it away (and hopefully put it to good use).

An incredibly robust work of engineering, the structure originally connected two downtown buildings in Minnesota’s biggest city, but when one of the pair it bridged was demolished it became a kind of “skyway to nowhere” that was more liability than asset. Ideas to turn it into a bridge or use it again as a skyway in another location all failed to materialize, but many others have been dreamed up since – a mobile nightclub, kiosk for Nicollet Mall and so forth.

It was subsequently listed for sale and bought for $ 1 by the University of Minnesota, which then sold it at blind auction by CityDeskStudio for $ 5,000. Plans to turn it into a modern cabin overlooking Lake Superior have since fallen through, hence its being once again up for grabs. CDS originally relisted the bridge in the early 2000s for close to $ 100,000 – the price was dropped repeatedly before the company decided to not only give away the behemoth but to pay for its relocation.

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February 25, 2015
Residential Rollercoaster: Buyers Ride Through House for Sale

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Perhaps ‘roller coaster ride’ isn’t the most desirable term that a seller would want potential buyers using to describe the property they’re showing, but in this case, it might not be such a bad thing. Dutch brokerage firm Verder Met Wonen literally takes prospective residents on a ride through the home on a specially-installed roller coaster in single-rider wooden cars.

The ride starts in the driveway, descending into the basement and then hoisting viewers up the stairs to see the first level. It then rises to the second floor, winds through the bedrooms and plummets out an upper window into the backyard.

A 90-second promotional clip gives us a glimpse at the journey, even if we can’t take it ourselves. No word on whether the stunt has helped the home’s chances of selling, and it’s certainly not giving prospective buyers a lot of time to mull over each space, but it’s certainly getting the firm some attention.

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December 18, 2014
Peter Lik’s ‘Phantom’ photograph breaks world record with $6.5 million sale

The world’s most expensive photograph has sold for $ 6.5 million to a private collector. The photograph ‘Phantom’ was taken by fine art photographer Peter Lik, and was joined by sales of his “Eternal Moods” for $ 1.1 million and “Illusion” for $ 2.4 million for a total of $ 10 million. Read more

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