Rochester, N.Y. - Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK) announced that it is entering the imaging technology market for mobile devices. "There are more than 600 million digital images captured each day, and more and more photos are being taken with mobile devices," said John Blake, general manager of digital capture and imaging devices group, and vice president of Eastman Kodak Co. "KODAK Imaging Technology addresses the three main issues that frustrate consumers about these shots - poor image quality, difficulty transferring images off their mobile devices, and the inability to easily share images with family and friends."

Sausalito, Calif. - ImageSpan, a provider of enabling infrastructure for digital content licensing, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $11 million in its second round of financing, led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments.

San Francisco - Apple plans to introduce photo geo-tagging of photos in the latest build of its iPhone 2.0 software, Apple Insider reports. The iPhone recently launched a new location triangulation service for its Maps application that lets base driving directions on their current location.

New York - Animoto, the developers of a Web application that lets users automatically generate video slideshows from their photos and music, announced on Thursday that it has received an investment from Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN).

Boston - Frame Media, a service that delivers personalized content to wireless digital picture frames, announced that it has raised an additional $3 million in venture capital, in a deal that was co-led by Longworth Venture Partners and CommonAngels.

Novato, Calif. - Sonic Solutions (NASD: SNIC), a provider of digital media software, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of Simple Star, the developer of PhotoShow, an application that lets users create multimedia files from photos and videos.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Photobucket, the photo-sharing service acquired by News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Fox Interactive Media last year, announced on Tuesday the release of the site's application programming interface (API), which will allow developers to build new applications based on Photobucket. Any developer will now be able to offer Photobucket-based applications alongside offerings from Adobe, AOL, FotoFlexer, Intercasting, RockYou, Slide, Snapvine and TiVo.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo's (NASD: YHOO) Flickr photo-sharing site on Wednesday launched an anticipated video-sharing feature for its 42 million monthly users.

San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems (NASD: ADBE) on Thursday launched a public beta of Photoshop Express, a free, stripped-down online version of its popular photo editing software. The service, which uses Flash Player 9, allows registered users to store up to 2GB of images for free online. It also offers ways to upload and download photos between the service and social networking sites like Facebook.

Washington - Footnote, a Utah-based website that features searchable original documents, said that it has launched an online interactive photo of the Vietnam War Memorial, in conjunction with the National Archives and Records Administration. The site allows users to locate any of the more then 58,000 names on the wall by typing them into a search box. The site then zooms in to the area where the individual name can be viewed, and allows visitors to access the soldier's service record and view comments, stories and photos that have been contributed by other visitors.

San Francisco - The Turkish government has banned access to photo slideshow service Slide in the country, after a local court found that the site was "harboring pictures and articles that are considered to be insulting to Ataturk," in a country where insulting the founder of the republic is a crime, according to a Slide spokesperson.

San Francisco - Yahoo's (NASD: YHOO) Flickr photo-sharing service intends to branch out into video with the beta launch of a new Flickr video service next month, CNET News.com reported. The company told CNET that Flickr Video will not replace Yahoo Video, and that the service is not meant to compete with YouTube. Flickr director of product management Kakul Srivastava told CNET the service has to appeal in an "authentic" way to the Flickr community.

New York - Drop.io, a provider of websites for sharing photos, videos, documents, and other types of media, announced on Monday that it has raised $2.7 million in its first round of venture capital, led by DFJ Gotham and RRE Ventures.

San Diego - Chumby Industries on Monday debuted the Chumby, its $179 portable Wi-Fi Internet device that lets consumers receive "a constant personalized broadcast of their favorite parts of the Web." About the size of a coffee cup, the touchscreen, squeeze- and motion-sensitive Chumby can access Web radio stations, YouTube videos, news and entertainment sites, photo-sharing and other applications. The company announced content partnerships with CBS, MTV Networks, MySpace, The Weather Channel Interactive, AOL's Shoutcast and Scripps Networks for its Chumby Network, which will feature both user-generated and sponsor-supported commercial widget applications.

Seattle - Getty Images (NYSE: GYI), a creator and distributor of stock photography and other media, announced on Monday that it has accepted a $2.4 billion buyout offer from private equity firm Hellman & Friedman.

San Francisco - Tiny Pictures, the provider of a service that lets users share camera phone pictures and videos in real-time, announced on Monday that it has secured $7.2 million in its second round of funding, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Tokyo - Morpho, a Japanese developer of image processing software for mobile devices, announced on Monday that it has received a $1.5 million investment from Nokia Growth Partners (NYSE: NOK).

Norwood, Mass. - The Polaroid Corp. has announced that it plans to wind down its instant film business, a response to the ever-growing popularity of digital photography.

San Francisco - HotOrNot, the popular site where users can rate photos other users submit of themselves, has been acquired by an investor group connected with Avid Life Media for a reported $20 million, according to TechCrunch.

San Francisco - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace online social network has quietly fixed a glitch on its website that allowed users to access the photos on some profiles that users had deemed "private," Wired.com reports.