Yahoo offers Flickr revamp with 1TB of 'free storage'
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Yahoo offers Flickr revamp with 1TB of 'free storage'
Yahoo has redesigned its Flickr photo-sharing service, offering users up to 1TB of storage without a fee.
The revamp also allows users to host longer video clips and higher-resolution photos, and a new app has been launched for Android devices.
The news came hours after the company confirmed it was taking over blogging platform Tumblr.
One expert said Yahoo's chief executive had "thrown down the gauntlet" to her former employer Google.
"Marissa Mayer is trying to realign the business to focus on a core set of high-traffic properties," said Chris Green, principal technology analyst at consultants Davies Murphy Group Europe.
"The 1TB of ad-supported free storage is the big thing," he said.
"It puts Flickr back on the agenda making it relevant to both hobbyist and professional photographers alike, but it also reignites the whole storage capacity war that started with Gmail and that we are now seeing with cloud file sharing services."
Google offers users a total of 15GB of free storage across its core cloud services. Facebook does not impose such a limit but downgrades the quality of high-resolution photos.
Mr Green added that several industry watchers had been caught by surprise by the announcement as they had believed Yahoo might fold Flickr's technology into Tumblr rather than continue to run the two platforms as separate services.
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The revamp also allows users to host longer video clips and higher-resolution photos, and a new app has been launched for Android devices.
The news came hours after the company confirmed it was taking over blogging platform Tumblr.
One expert said Yahoo's chief executive had "thrown down the gauntlet" to her former employer Google.
"Marissa Mayer is trying to realign the business to focus on a core set of high-traffic properties," said Chris Green, principal technology analyst at consultants Davies Murphy Group Europe.
"The 1TB of ad-supported free storage is the big thing," he said.
"It puts Flickr back on the agenda making it relevant to both hobbyist and professional photographers alike, but it also reignites the whole storage capacity war that started with Gmail and that we are now seeing with cloud file sharing services."
Google offers users a total of 15GB of free storage across its core cloud services. Facebook does not impose such a limit but downgrades the quality of high-resolution photos.
Mr Green added that several industry watchers had been caught by surprise by the announcement as they had believed Yahoo might fold Flickr's technology into Tumblr rather than continue to run the two platforms as separate services.
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