At first, MySpace was rumored to acquire Photobucket, this news was first came courtesy of Valleywag, later confirmed by the A-list blogger, Techcrunch and several tech news provider such as Webpronews. It seems that both companies realized by joining force together, they can yield a better revenue and financial results on the Web. The acquisition took most people by surprise when weeks before this, both companies were loggerheads over an advertising dispute but was later resolved by them. Not sure whether this led them to a preliminary agreement to an acquisition as mentioned in the above.

This above acquisition has a significant impact to Photobucket, not solely on the financial terms and agreement, this is a recognition for the widget, a successful product developed by Photobucket. As you know, MySpace give the users an unique address, the personalized social-network page, and Photobucket may just offered a widget, a favorite MySpace widget for the MySpace users to present their photos or videos. But the acquisition will mean that the address, i.e. social-network page of the user is equally important to the widget.

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