Yahoo buys Flickr?

goobimama · 21-06-2007, 12:16 AM

I was browsing through Flickr today, when I noticed that it was owned by Yahoo. When did this happen? Or was Flickr a service by yahoo?

If someone knows more about this, it would be great.

If this has been posted before, I apologise, cause I searched the forum "Flickr yahoo"....

QwertyManiac · 21-06-2007, 12:20 AM

Whoa, it's been so long since that happened and now Yahoo's gonna close its Photos feature for it too!

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1777908,00.asp

2005

goobimama · 21-06-2007, 12:29 AM

Well that thing says "Agreed to buy". When did the transition take place? Cause i logged into flickr a few months ago with my flickr account. Now I need to use my yahoo account...

eddie · 21-06-2007, 12:33 AM

Yahoo Buys Flickr
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=yah...ient=firefox-a

I don't know how you missed it but its been very long. Also, even the main page has been displaying Yahoo! logo since like more than a year now.

QwertyManiac · 21-06-2007, 12:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goobimama

Well that thing says "Agreed to buy". When did the transition take place? Cause i logged into flickr a few months ago with my flickr account. Now I need to use my yahoo account...

March 20th 2005
http://news.com.com/Yahoo+buys+photo...3-5627640.html

and they just started forcing Yahoo-only accounts since the new anti-phish feature of the same.

~Phenom~ · 21-06-2007, 12:35 AM

@eddie , yeah. Its real old news.

goobimama · 21-06-2007, 12:42 AM

(smacks his virtual hand on his virtual head) Whoopsie for me then....

ax3 · 22-06-2007, 12:11 PM

way 2 old ........ yahoo`s logo on flickr ........

aryayush · 23-06-2007, 02:46 AM

@goobimama

Dude, I just have one question: How did you manage to lift that huge rock and how did you survive for so many days under it?

When I saw the title of the thread, the first thought that occurred to me was, "What! Again? How's that possible!"

chesss · 23-06-2007, 03:38 AM

Quote:

searched the forum "Flickr yahoo"....

dude don't search the forum, First thing google it .

goobimama · 23-06-2007, 04:40 AM

Well the first link I got by googling "yahoo buys flickr" (try it out) was a cnet link, with 18th June 2007 at the end of the Green URL part. Then I opened the link and didn't bother looking on for the date of the real article...