Waldo Photos partners with Gradelink News 

Waldo Photos partners with Gradelink

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Waldo Photos, the Austin, Texas-based photo platform announced a partnership with Gradelink, a leading student information system (SIS) platform. Gradelink is used by more than 2,000 private school administrators throughout the United States, and allows for centralized communication of all necessary scholastic information, such as admission, tuition, and grades. The partnership with Waldo will now bring AI-powered photo management, yearbook... Read More
Retail shopping and marketing trends in a post-COVID world, with Michael Osborne, Wunderkind Marketing Podcasts 

Retail shopping and marketing trends in a post-COVID world, with Michael Osborne, Wunderkind

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Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Michael Osborne, president of Wunderkind about retail and marketing trends, how COVID-19 affected retail,  and why Precision Camera is his favorite camera store. Listen here. Osborne is the President of Wunderkind. With more than 30 years of experience in marketing technology, he is an established industry leader trusted by major brands such as Bloomingdale’s, Hilton, and Santander Bank. His... Read More
SeaLife launches Android app for SportDiver housing New Products Updates 

SeaLife launches Android app for SportDiver housing

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SeaLife launched an Android app for the SportDiver Smartphone housing. The SeaLife SportDiver is a compact, lightweight underwater housing fitting most Android smartphones and Apple phones from iPhone 7 and up. The Android and iOS apps work with the current OS and the previous version, e.g. the Android app presently works with Android 11 and 10. The SeaLife SportDiver, for... Read More
Scodix complete IPO on Tel Aviv stock exchange News 

Scodix complete IPO on Tel Aviv stock exchange

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Digital enhancement equipment supplier Scodix announced the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange now includes Scodix as a publicly-traded company, under the ticker symbol SCDX. Scodix raised approximately NIS 62 million ($19 million) in the IPO. “We thank investors for their significant expression of confidence in Scodix, which is reflected in the successful IPO recruitment,” said Eli Grinberg, CEO, and founder of... Read More
Snap second-quarter revenue increases 116% to nearly $1 billion Earnings reports 

Snap second-quarter revenue increases 116% to nearly $1 billion

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Snap Inc. announced second-quarter revenue increased 116% to $982 million, compared to the prior year, and the net loss improved 53% to $(152) million, compared to the same period. Daily active users (DAU) were 293 million in the quarter, an increase of 55 million, or 23%, year-over-year. “Our second-quarter results reflect the broad-based strength of our business, as we grew... Read More
Printbox introduces responsive photo book editor, releases ebook News Updates 

Printbox introduces responsive photo book editor, releases ebook

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Poland-based enterprise photo products software maker Printbox, released an advanced responsive editor. The RWD-compliant editor was built based on the top UX trends to make the designing of photo books on mobile devices even more convenient than before, the company said. The change was made when internal analysis of Printbox clients’ data showed the share of mobile customers in total... Read More
Kornit Digital partners with Canva for global on-demand production News 

Kornit Digital partners with Canva for global on-demand production

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Digital textile printing company Kornit Digital partnered with online visual communications and design platform Canva as one of Canva’s first certified integration partners, empowering Canva to help leading print service providers, brands, and organizations add the Canva design tool to their e-commerce websites. Kornit will also manage and route all orders through Kornit’sglobal fulfillment network. Canva’s online visual communications platform... Read More
Tamron developing lens for Fujifilm X-mount, Sony E-mount New Products 

Tamron developing lens for Fujifilm X-mount, Sony E-mount

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Tamron Co., Ltd. announces the development of its first lens for FUJIFILM X-mount and Sony E-mount cameras. The lenses are expected to be available in Fall 2021. The Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A2 VC VXD (Model B061) will be the first all-in-one zoom lens for Sony and FUJIFILM APS-C mirrorless cameras featuring a 16.6x zoom ratio. The AF drive system... Read More
Lightricks beings Videoleap to Android platform News 

Lightricks beings Videoleap to Android platform

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Lightricks, the creator of Facetune2, Facetune Video, and Beatleap, announced the Android launch of its video editing app, Videoleap. Geared for both social media users and professional content creators alike, Videoleap offers professional-level, easy-to-use tools to create, edit, customize and share snippets or full length videos. Given the recent rise of the creator economy, Lightricks conducted a survey to its... Read More
June retail sales increase as recovery continues, says NRF News 

June retail sales increase as recovery continues, says NRF

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Retail sales saw solid growth during June, increasing in most categories on a monthly basis and across the board on a yearly basis as the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic continued, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF). “Continued growth in June retail sales shows enduring strength in the American consumer,” said Matthew Shay, NRF President and CEO. “Heading into... Read More
Venus Optics releases Laowa 14mm f/4 Zero-D DSLR New Products 

Venus Optics releases Laowa 14mm f/4 Zero-D DSLR

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Venus Optics released the Laowa 14mm f/4 Zero-D DSLR, a well-rounded every-purpose DSLR lens for full-frame cameras. The “Zero-D” feature enables photographers to create high-quality close-to-zero-distortion images without editing, the company claims. The extremely short 14.5cm minimum focusing distance makes macro-like images possible, the company said.The small and compact design makes itself more friendly to photographers of any kind. Adding... Read More
Ten winners of CEWE Photo Award selected News 

Ten winners of CEWE Photo Award selected

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The winners of 10 competition categories in the CEWE Photo Award 2021 were announced, selected from amateur and professional photographers who submitted more than 600,000 photos from 170 countries. The jury, chaired by French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, will select this year’s overall winner from these finalists. The SOS Children’s Villages around the world also benefit from the lively participation: CEWE... Read More
Motif launches photo canvas prints News 

Motif launches photo canvas prints

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Motif, the Apple-focused personalized photo project app from RR Donnelly, announced the launch of photo canvas prints on its iOS and Mac apps. Users can choose images from the Apple Photos library and preview the image on  sample wall. Other key features include: Variety of Canvas Sizes: The photo canvas prints are available in four sizes, in both horizontal or vertical... Read More
Australia’s Emotion Photography to become EMOT News 

Australia’s Emotion Photography to become EMOT

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Australian wedding photo service Emotion Wedding Photography will rebrand as Emot Wedding Photography,  according to Michael Warshall, co-founder and executive chairman, in a letter to prospective investors and supporters. The startup recently graduated from the Founders Institute and is preparing for international expansion. The company’s initial funding round has closed, with an investor portfolio groipu comprised of “a number of... Read More
Epson debuts two dry lab photo printers New Products 

Epson debuts two dry lab photo printers

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Epson America Inc. announced the SureLab® D1070 and SureLab D1070DE drylab printers built for high-volume photo and graphic production. Designed for retail, event and e-commerce applications, the SureLab D1070DE adds a duplex feeder to provide automatic double-sided printing on sheet media to use for photobooks, greeting cards, invitations, postcards, and more. The SureLab D1070 Minilab printer will be available in fall 2021 for... Read More