Mobile App News
SmugMug has updated its Android and iOS apps to include editing features and automatic uploads. The new editing functions include transform, filters, text editing and more.
Matterport released Matterport for iPhone, a way to create, to edit, and to share high-fidelity 3D digital twins of any physical space. With the Matterport Capture app, iPhone owners capture a 3D environment; personalize it with embedded notes, links, labels or videos; and share it with a click.
Events
Apple to host virtual Worldwide Developers Conference June 22
thINK announces thINK Ahead 2020 to shift to virtual event
thINK, the independent community of
Canon Solutions America inkjet customers, announced its annual event,
thINK Ahead, will shift to live virtual learning event Sept. 2, 2020. The invitation-only Inkjet 101 will take place Sept. 1. The thINK Ahead 2020 – Live Virtual Event and Inkjet 101 is free to all Canon Solutions America inkjet customers.
Good ol’ analog
Polaroid introduced a limited-edition summer-themed instant film. The eight-pack i-Type film features a creamy cast on each print.
The Dead Pixels Society podcast
Gary Pageau from the Dead Pixels Society talks with photographer Michael Rubin about the photography, printing and retail. Rubin operated, until recently, the Neomodern print store and gallery in downtown San Francisco. He is also the co-host of the “Everyday Photography, Every Day,” podcast.
In this episode, Rubin discusses why he doesn’t think a photograph is a photograph until its printed, as well as the circumstances forcing the unfortunate closure of the Neomodern retail space.
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Financial news
GoPro, Inc. announced first-quarter revenues were $119 million, in line with its preliminary reports, but down from the $243 million for the same period last year. The net loss in the quarter was $64 million.
Vistaprint parent Cimpress plc reported print orders dropped by 65 percent at the end of March and beginning of April, climbing to 40 percent down by the end of the month. Sales for the quarter were down by 10 percent to US$598 million, compared with $661.8 million a year ago.
Amazon reported
first-quarter net sales increased 26% to $75.5 billion in the first quarter, compared with $59.7 billion in first-quarter 2019, according to a press release.
International Paper reported a first-quarter net loss of $141 million, compared with $165 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 and $424 million in the first quarter of 2019, via press release.
Largan Precision Co., a supplier of smartphone camera lenses to
Apple Inc., said Tuesday its sales for April fell more than 10 percent from a month earlier as the COVID-19 pandemic affected demand, via
Focus Taiwan. Largan posted NT$4.68 billion (US$157 million) in consolidated sales in April, down 14 percent from a month earlier and also down 6 percent from a year earlier.
People on the Move
Print industry sales specialist
Matt Loede has joined
Electronics For Imaging, Inc. in a key role driving digital inkjet opportunities for commercial print and signage businesses. Loede is the new Eastern regional sales manager for the EFI™ Display Graphics business, helping a broad range of print businesses develop profitable, high-quality and efficient signage and graphics production solutions, featuring EFI
VUTEk® and
Wide Format printers.
Kevin Bryant, who has 15 years of experience in the franchise industry, including ownership, sales, conversion, marketing and development, as well as Fortune 500 sales experience, has been named AlphaGraphics’ new regional development director
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