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...former media strategist for Obama, have been retained by the Tories. Labour has brought in Joel Benenson, lead pollster and senior strategist to Obama; his colleague Peter Brodnitz, who worked on the Democrats' 2008 congressional campaigns; and Michael Sheehan, a veteran speech coach. (See pictures of Barack Obama on Flickr...
...high-flying start-up to join the Google team. The popular photo-editing site has 17 million unique monthly visitors and traffic growth of 10% a month. Picnik simplifies the process of cropping, editing and adding special effects to photos stored on your computer or on sites such as Flickr, Picasa or Facebook...
...Filling a Critical Gap Google fills software gaps as much through acquisitions as it does with engineering. After buying plain-Jane photo-management service Picasa in 2004, Google bought Neven Vision in 2006 to spice Picasa up with facial recognition. But after Yahoo! snatched up Flickr in 2005, Picasa never caught on as broadly as its competitors. Even as digital photography has exploded, Picasa has continued to lack sophisticated editing capabilities, making Picnik a crucial acquisition...
...Defense Google couldn't afford to repeat the mistake it made in letting Flickr go to Yahoo! in 2005. When asked about potential acquirers before selling Picnik to Google, Sposato said potential matches ranged from tech giants Apple, Yahoo! and Microsoft to photo companies such as Snapfish, Shutterfly and Kodak. Google had to act decisively to avoid a Flickr-like missed opportunity...
...Data With a billion uploads in its database, Picnik has a mountain of information about how people edit their photos. Because Picnik now enables people to edit photos they have stored through Yahoo! Mail, Flickr, Facebook and other services, Picnik also has info on photo usage all across the Web. Google craves data of that sort, particularly as it prepares to launch its cloud-based Chrome operating system...