HP buys Snapfish
Snapfish’s expertise in online photo services, coupled with HP’s worldwide customer reach, will rapidly enhance HP’s ability to capitalize on the growing market for online photo printing.
Snapfish offers high-quality photo products and services. These include free online photo sharing, photo storage and management, free editing tools and software, online print ordering, wireless imaging services for camera phone and color handset users, and more than 70 personalized photo products, such as calendars, mousepads and the like.
Snapfish also provides infrastructure services to leading retailers, internet service providers and wireless carriers, allowing them to offer these same products and services to their own consumers.
“Bringing Snapfish into HP’s digital photography portfolio is a strategic move for both companies,” said Larry Lesley, senior vice president, Consumer Imaging and Printing, HP. “By offering a superior online photo service through Snapfish, we will be able to offer the home photographer greater choice when deciding exactly how, when and where they share, store and print their photos.”
Snapfish has more than 13 million registered members and is growing at a rate of more than 500,000 members per month due in part to high customer satisfaction - 90 percent of Snapfish’s customers have recommended the service to others.
Hope they get around to migrating the data over from HP Photo. I still have a couple of test accounts left over there from it was Cartogra.
Update - from News.com:
HP plans, for customers who approve it, to move those using its current HPphoto.com service over to Snapfish. That service has 1.5 million customers, who mostly use the service to store their photos. Snapfish rival Shutterfly is the default printing option from within HPphoto.com.
I’ll have to go dig up my photos of Cartogra-man sometime.
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