Apps, updates and financial news for the week of June 21
New apps and updates
- Capture One releases new ‘Pacific’ & ‘Infinite Peaks’ Latitude Style packs
- Olympus announces firmware update to OM-D E-M1 series cameras
- Google Photos showing large ‘Photo book store’ ad in app menu, via 9to5Google
Rumours and reports from around the Internet:
Leica to lay off 80-100 employees, add 40 programmers, in shift to digital
CEO Matthias Harsch, Leica Camera AG, has commented on the planned conversion of the camera manufacturer, in the course of which 80 to 100 of the more than 800 employees will be dismissed at the headquarters and up to 40 software experts will be hired, via Mittelhessen
- SmugMug taps Adobe Analytics to grow photo communities with Flickr, via Adobe blog
- AI photography platform Meero raises $230 million to become France’s newest unicorn, via VentureBeat.
- Mink Launches 3-D Makeup Printer: Stream Your Makeup On-Demand, via press release
- WINDGO Granted Additive Printing Mobile Printer Patent, via press release
- PELEMAN recognized for outstanding entrepreneurship by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VOKA) of Belgium’s Flanders region
- Print shop generates an additional $1 million with 3D printing, via WhatTheyThink.
- Nikon invested USD $7.5 million in wrnch, Inc., a Quebec computer vision and deep learning startup, via Nikon press release
- Jostens receives 12 awards at Premier International Print Competition, via press release
Financial News
- Adobe reports record Q2 revenue; achieves 25 percent year-over-year growth, via press release
- Contract manufacturer and lens maker Jabil beats Q3 earnings, revenues
People on the Move
- Former Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson joins Siris as an executive partner, via press release