Yahoo buys photo-sharing site Flickr

By Jim Hu
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Yahoo has purchased online photo-sharing service Flickr, less than a week after the Internet giant launched a beta test of a new blogging tool.

Vancouver, British Columbia-based Flickr lets users upload digital photos from computers and camera phones, put together photo albums, and post photos to blogs, among other things.

Joanna Stevens, a spokeswoman for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo, confirmed the deal Sunday but did not disclose the terms.
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Marketing Yourself, Your Writing

by Pam White

Last week I was invited to a Women in Business workshop at the local community college. The topic of that evening's seminar was marketing, a topic I am familiar with yet always seeking more input on. We started the evening by introducing ourselves, sharing what our business was and telling each other what benefit we could provide the other businesswomen.

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