Kodak would plan to use the Kodak Gallery photo service to sell. With the sale would be an amount of “several hundreds of millions of dollars’. This amount will likely be used to the company, in order to form to your printer manufacturer.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Kodak has several parties approached for the acquisition of the photo service, including competitive online’s own photographic services, risk investors and retailers. The company wants, according to the newspaper a few hundreds of millions of dollars with the sale of Kodak Gallery bringing.
Or a party that has is the question. The online photo service leads a kwakkelend exist with a large outflow of members and declining page views. Potential buyers get scared to the service. Kodak got the photo service in the hands of the acquisition of Ofoto in June 2001 for an amount of $ 100 million.
Kodak Gallery is a free online photo service that lets users easily take photos with each other can share. Can also online photo albums on the site to be made and is it possible to have the uploaded photos to be printed on postcards, photo books, and mugs. The photos can also be shared with Facebook.
Kodak is already working on parts of the company sold. So sold the his bundle oled patents to LG and has camerasensortak sold. Kodak wants to fully focus on his printertak.