TechCrunch Friday October 25, 2024
Website builder Squarespace is no longer a publicly traded company, after being acquired by private equity firm Permira for $7.2 billion. Permira procured all remaining common stock in the firm, reports TechCrunch, adding that the acquisition is one of the biggest “take-private” deals of 2024. Founded in 2004 by Anthony Casalena, Squarespace is a no-code platform for SMEs and freelancers, including many photographers, to build websites, blogs, and online stores, notes TC; Casalena will continue as Squarespace’s CEO and chairman.
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David Schonauer Friday October 25, 2024
The imagery tempting consumers of the future may be created by AI: This week we noted that Meta is testing new AI video editing capabilities that will allow advertisers to animate still images.
Advertisers simply upload a static image and then use Meta's tool to "generate" a video--for instance, making strawberries slowly float around a jar of jam. The new tools can also make … Read the full Story >>
Wenting Channel. Thursday October 24, 2024
Boston-based engineer Wenting Zhang has been experimenting with DIY electronics for over a decade, and he also loves taking photos, so building his own camera was sort of a no-brainer. "I initially had the idea of building my own camera during middle school. Back then, I wasn't allowed to use my parents' camera and couldn't afford a real camera. I naively thought it would be possible, and cheaper, if I just built one myself," Zhang recently told DP Review. He also explains how he built the camera at his YouTube channel.
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CNN Thursday October 24, 2024
Though he plays bass in one of the world’s foremost rock bands, Colin Greenwood doesn't view himself as a public figure—and in some ways, notes CNN, he retreats even further from the public eye in his newly released photography book, titled How to Disappear: Portrait of Radiohead. “Holding a camera and taking pictures is a nice way of sort of hiding behind something whilst everything else is going on on front of you,” says Greenwood, who was drawn to photography after college.
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