Pro photo hosting service SmugMug buys Flickr

After Flickr’s fate has been put up in the air with Yahoo’s sale to Verizon and being joined with AOL in Verizon’s Oath subsidiary, professional photo hosting service SmugMug wanted to help out. The company has just bought Flickr for an undisclosed amount. The photo service hasn’t been able to mount a successful comeback with tough competition in its space because of services like Instagram. But SmugMug is confident it can thrive still. SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill told USA Today “Flickr has survived through thick-and-thin and is core to the entire fabric of the internet.”

Now, whether SmugMug can revive the service is something we can’t say yet at the moment. The company promises to keep Flickr as a standalone community and will supposedly get the focus and resources it needs.

Adobe's Carousel puts Lightroom in the Cloud for Mac and iOS users

You can't say Adobe isn't looking out for Apple or its users. The new Adobe Carousel service, revealed today at Photoshop World in Las Vegas. Carousel promises to put iOS and Mac user's entire photo collection from all their devices onlne in a single repository that is easily accessible, shareable and editable for a yearly fee of US $60 a year of $5 monthly. Boy, am I glad my Flickr Pro account expires tomorrow.