Industry Notes for the Week of Aug. 8 News 

Industry Notes for the Week of Aug. 8

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Status of $765 million Kodak loan deal put in question With a single after-hours tweet on Friday, the federal agency working with Eastman Kodak Co. on a $765 million pharmaceutical deal appeared to put the whole project on hold, reports the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.  “On July 28, we signed a Letter of Interest with Eastman Kodak. Recent allegations of... Read More
Kornit Digital reports second-quarter 2020 results News 

Kornit Digital reports second-quarter 2020 results

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Kornit Digital Ltd., a leading provider of digital printing solutions for the global textile industry, today reported second-quarter revenue of $37.4 million, with a loss of $5.3 million. In other news, the company announced the acquisition of Custom Gateway, a provider of cloud software workflow. “We are very pleased to see strong momentum in the business as customers reopened sites... Read More
Ricoh debuts Pentax binocular/monocular products New Products 

Ricoh debuts Pentax binocular/monocular products

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Ricoh Imaging Americas Corp. announced the PENTAX V binocular/monocular series, a new product line with multi-function features. The first models are the PENTAX VD 4X20 WP binoculars with detachable design, and the PENTAX VM 6X21 WP monocular, designed to facilitate close-range observations. Both models in the new PENTAX V-Series are suitable for use at outdoor sports events, concerts and theatrical performances,... Read More
Kodak reports second-quarter 2020 loss Earnings reports 

Kodak reports second-quarter 2020 loss

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Eastman Kodak Co. reported second-quarter 2020 revenues of $213 million and a net loss of $5 million. “Kodak continued to navigate the challenges posed by the pandemic during the second quarter,” said Jim Continenza, Kodak’s Executive Chairman. “Although the print industry slowdown impacted our performance, we continued to serve our customers and furthered our long history of innovation through the... Read More
Canon loses consumer images on image.canon News 

Canon loses consumer images on image.canon

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Some users of Canon’s image.canon.com permanently lost an unspecified number of images due to a technical issues (shown above). “Currently, the still image thumbnails of these lost image files can be viewed but not downloaded or transferred. If a user tries to download or transfer a still image thumbnail file, an error may be received.” ZDNET reports the outage may have... Read More
Unsplash releases image dataset as open source SDKs and APIs 

Unsplash releases image dataset as open source

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Unsplash is releasing for free the most complete high-quality open image dataset ever  for anyone to use to further research in machine learning, image quality, search engines, and more. The company says the more than 2 million images, from more than 200,000 global photographers, includes 16GB of accompanying data, including: keyword-image conversions in search results community and AI-generated keywords EXIF, location,... Read More
GoPro announces second-quarter revenues up 12% Earnings reports 

GoPro announces second-quarter revenues up 12%

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GoPro, Inc. announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, with revenue up 12% of $134 million. Sales from GoPro.com grew to 44%. The company sold 750,000 units. Our strategic shift to a more direct-to-consumer business with lower operating costs is working,” said Nicholas Woodman, GoPro founder and CEO. “Camera sell-through during Q2 demonstrates resilient consumer demand for GoPro and an increasing... Read More
Dead Pixels Society Podcast: Rise Above Research Market research News Podcasts 

Dead Pixels Society Podcast: Rise Above Research

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Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with the co-founders of the new imaging industry marketing research company, Rise Above Research. Ed Lee, founder and director, has more than 20 years of experience covering the consumer and professional digital photography and imaging markets as an industry analyst and market researcher.  David Haueter has 20 years of experience as an industry analyst, with stints at Gartner and Keypoint Intelligence -InfoTrends, primarily... Read More
Consumers are unaware of personal data loss remedies Market research 

Consumers are unaware of personal data loss remedies

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Data loss can have serious implications for any person, especially for precious memories in the form of family photos or videos. According to the recent Data Recovery Survey 2020 conducted by CleverFiles, the creators of file recovery software Disk Drill, 63% of respondents have recently lost their personal digital data, and 42% of them weren’t able to recover their data. Moreover, 18%... Read More
Moody’s rates Shutterfly B+ News 

Moody’s rates Shutterfly B+

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Moody’s Investors Service has completed a periodic review of the ratings of Shutterfly, LLC, and maintained the companies B3 rating. In June, Moody’s downgraded the company’s rating from B2 to B3, from June 20. The service cited the key rating considerations: Shutterfly’s B3 Corporate Family Rating (CFR) reflects the company’s high financial leverage, exposure to cyclical consumer discretionary spending, highly... Read More
EFI reinterprets Connect conference experience Events 

EFI reinterprets Connect conference experience

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Building on its recent webinar and online training series for print and packaging professionals, Electronics For Imaging, Inc. will offer a new EFI Engage Conference online next January. Sessions will cover a broad range of technologies, offering world-class instruction on EFI Productivity Suite MIS/ERP, EFI Fiery® digital front end and EFI Display Graphics and Corrugated inkjet printing solutions. In addition to... Read More
Samsung unveils five new power devices New Products 

Samsung unveils five new power devices

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Samsung Electronics introduced five devices that “seamlessly integrate to empower consumers navigating a rapidly changing world:” Galaxy Note20 and Galaxy Note20 Ultra; Tab S7 and S7+; Galaxy Watch3, a smartwatch with advanced health features; Galaxy Buds Live, stylish and ergonomic earbuds with amazing sound quality; and Galaxy Z Fold2, the next-generation foldable smartphone with enhanced refinements. The Galaxy Note20 features four cameras: 10MP Selfie Camera,... Read More
Olympus introduces OM-D E-M10 Mark IV Camera New Products 

Olympus introduces OM-D E-M10 Mark IV Camera

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Olympus introduces the OM-D E-M10 Mark IV, a compact, lightweight interchangeable, Micro Four Thirds entry-level camera body. The OM-D E-M10 Mark IV has the same 20M image sensor and high-performance TruePic VIII image processing engine available on Olympus high-end models.Through Nov. 1, 2020, buyers of a new OM-D E-M10 Mark IV will receive a free starter kit, consisting of an Olympus camera bag,... Read More