Yahoo acquired Flickr in 2005, an early Web deal that the search giant hoped would help revitalize it. The terms of the deal were not made public. “We want them all, and I think they all want to come,” he said. MacAskill said in an interview that he intends to bring Flickr’s staff - estimated at dozens of people - to SmugMug, and the company is looking for a San Francisco office that will help accommodate those employees. “We will move heaven and earth to thrill you and photographers everywhere,” MacAskill wrote in response to a Twitter user. SmugMug, a rival photo-sharing site, said Friday that the companies will continue to operate as separate properties “with the shared goal of providing photographers with both a place to fit in and a place to stand out.” Flickr, with offices in San Francisco, has more than 75 million accounts, while SmugMug has millions of paying customers, SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill said. James Tensuan / Special to the Chronicle 2015 Show More Show Lessįlickr, the popular photo-sharing site that has long been part of Yahoo, will soon have a new owner - Mountain View firm SmugMug. Zielinski posed atop a 40-foot high-rise in San Francisco as Mystique from X-Men. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel DunandEMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images Emmanuel Dunand / AFP / Getty Images Show More Show Less 2 of2 Alexandra Zielinski poses next to her portrait done by Benjamin Von Wong at SmugMug in Mountain View, Calif. Yahoo announced a $1.1 billion deal for blogging site Tumblr aiming to help Yahoo to tap into the younger, active online user base at Tumblr. 1 of2 Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during an announcement that Yahoo acquired the Tumblr blogging site in order to upgrade its Flickr site, in New York, May 20, 2013.
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