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Sky News: Kodak Alaris owners are shopping the company News 

Sky News: Kodak Alaris owners are shopping the company

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Sky News reports Britain’s Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is poised to put Kodak Alaris, the photographic and document imaging group, up for sale. Sky News city editor Mark Kleinman writes the PPF, which has owned Kodak Alaris since 2020, “has kicked off talks with bankers about an auction of the company behind the ‘Kodak moments’ made famous by its multinational... Read More
vAIsual, Dragonimages partner to offer Asian images for AI training News 

vAIsual, Dragonimages partner to offer Asian images for AI training

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vAIsual Inc., the company behind the largest visual dataset collection in the world, signed a content deal with Vietnam-based Dragonimages, which will license its collection of images showing the Asian diaspora to companies training machine learning for various purposes. The partnership is a win for increasing diversity and representation in AI output, as well as ensuring copyright owners are compensated... Read More
DJI debuts Inspire 3 cinema drone News 

DJI debuts Inspire 3 cinema drone

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  DJI announced the all-in-one DJI Inspire 3, a streamlined, full-frame 8K cinema drone. The drone features a sleek integrated design, a 161° ultra-wide FOV night-vision FPV, and the O3 Pro transmission and control system. The Inspire 3 is DJI’s only cinema-grade drone, that supports both RTK-powered Waypoint Pro and omnidirectional sensing to perform flight missions more safely and with higher... Read More
Canon debuts sub-$1,000 24-inch printer with built-in scanner News 

Canon debuts sub-$1,000 24-inch printer with built-in scanner

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Canon U.S.A., Inc. announced the imagePROGRAF TC-20M, a new large-format, multifunction, 4-color pigment inkjet printer supporting both roll paper and cut-sheet media. The compact, desktop printer is the first Canon imagePROGRAF large-format model equipped with an integrated contact imaging sensor (CIS) flatbed scanner that assists in digitizing originals (to cloud or USB), as well as offering the ability to produce... Read More
Urbanimmersive integrates ChatGPT with UiMeet3D Avatar Greeting Bot News 

Urbanimmersive integrates ChatGPT with UiMeet3D Avatar Greeting Bot

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Urbanimmersive Inc. announced having integrated ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) technology, with their UiMeet3D Avatar Greeting Bot available in all its 3D tours subscription. UiMeet3D is Urbanimmersive’s proprietary technology enabling viewers to engage in immersive, real-time interactions with other 3D avatars (visitors) within 3D virtual tours. Each 3D avatar, is represented by the viewer’s webcam video streaming. UiMeet3D Avatar Greeting... Read More
Best Buy announces mail-in tech recycling program Marketing News 

Best Buy announces mail-in tech recycling program

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Best Buy announced a nationwide program where consumers can recycle old electronics by mail. Starting this month, consumers can order a prepaid Best Buy Technology Recycling Box and ship off their old electronics for recycling. “We continue to build on our commitment to be there for our customers throughout the entire lifecycle of their products by making recycling simple and... Read More
Think Tank launches new travel luggage focused brand identity News 

Think Tank launches new travel luggage focused brand identity

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Santa Rosa, Calif-based Think Tank is launching a refreshed brand identity with a new focus on travel luggage leading off with the tagline: Venture, Observe, Connect. Think Tank is a manufacturer of camera bags, backpacks, and rolling luggage designed for professional photographers and photo enthusiasts. With the launch of its new brand identity, Think Tank says it is expanding its... Read More
NRF: Full effect of Federal Reserve’s monetary tightening has not shown up News 

NRF: Full effect of Federal Reserve’s monetary tightening has not shown up

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National Retail Federation (NRF) Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz said NRF’s 2023 retail sales forecast was one of the most difficult he has ever prepared. “The broad economic environment in the United States today is anything but normal,” Kleinhenz said, noting that unemployment is near historic lows and consumers have excess savings even though interest rates are increasing rapidly and both the... Read More
Germany’s EyeEm files for bankruptcy News 

Germany’s EyeEm files for bankruptcy

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Business Insider in Germany reports the once high-flying stock photography startup EyeEm has filed for bankruptcy. Launched in 2011, EyeEm once boasted tens of millions of users and photographers, who used the service to market their stock photos. By 2020, however, the platform was losing momentum and restructured. Three of the founders –Florian Meissner, Lorenz Aschoff and Gen Sadakane –... Read More
allcop is the new laboratory partner of the Chromos Group News 

allcop is the new laboratory partner of the Chromos Group

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European photo company allcop Color Image Service GmbH & Co. KG is the new laboratory partner of the Chromos Group AG, which operates the website www.fuji.ch. The announcement said the photo service from “Fujifilm Switzerland is primarily aimed at ambitious photographers with high-quality standards and who pay attention to punctuality.” “We are pleased to support another partner and to be... Read More
INX International makes investment in Gooten Investments News 

INX International makes investment in Gooten

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INX International Ink Co. announced it has completed an investment agreement in Gooten, the technology and fulfillment company based in New York, New York. This deal will help Gooten expand its print-on-demand manufacturing network and capabilities globally while enabling INX to accelerate its strategy in digital printing, according to the announcement. INX International Ink Co. is the third largest producer... Read More
Instagram rival Hipstamatic is back to restore old-school photo joy News Updates 

Instagram rival Hipstamatic is back to restore old-school photo joy

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Hipstamatic, one of the biggest early rivals to Instagram, has returned to the Apple App Store with a more social-focused app for photo-oriented enthusiasts. The app listing includes the declaration: “BIG NEWS: Hipstamatic now has its own social network. It’s time to photo-share like it’s 2009 again!” The return of Hipstamatic – which was Apple’s 2010 app of the year... Read More
Radiant Photo partners with Red Bull Illume Events News 

Radiant Photo partners with Red Bull Illume

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AI-based photo editor Radiant Photo is partnering with the popular Red Bull Illume ImageQuest 2023 photo competition. For Red Bull Illume submissions, image processing is allowed – and recommended – in all categories except RAW. Red Bull Illume is the world’s largest competition for adventure and action sports photography. “Using the latest advancements in color science and artificial intelligence, Radiant... Read More