Articles about Corbis

Corbis + Getty: Bill Gates’ sale of Corbis Images to Chinese firm sets up distribution deal with rival

Two of the world’s leading photographic libraries, longtime rivals in the industry, are joining forces as a result of a pair… Read More

Report: Bill Gates-owned Corbis photo company cutting 15 percent of workers

Corbis, the image archiving company owned by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is rolling out massive layoffs as the photo licensing business becomes increasingly… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis Entertaiment launches network for product placement

Is that consumer product in that television show actually getting noticed by the intended audience? That’s one of the questions answered by… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis buys crowd-powered photo newswire service Demotix

Corbis is expanding its footprint in the arena of photojournalism, announcing today that it has purchased photo newswire Demotix for an… Read More

Tech Moves: Zones bolsters exec team; Bobber hooks gamification whiz; and more

Zones has kept a pretty low profile in recent the years, but the seller of technology products to businesses has… Read More

Is Getty Images looking to go public, again?

Getty Images, the Seattle-based provider of digital photos, videos and music, has hired investment bankers Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis faces $12.75M in damages in fraud case

Corbis, the digital image company owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, must pay $12.75 million in damages as part of… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Drugstore.com CEO Kal Raman hired at Groupon

Kal Raman, the former Amazon.com and drugstore.com executive who stepped down as CEO of Bellevue-based GlobalScholar last September, has been named senior… Read More

Corbis CEO Gary Shenk explains why they’re excited about music licensing

We were pretty intrigued with the idea of GreenLight Music — the new digital music licensing business from Seattle-based Corbis… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis unveils an ‘iTunes for music licensing’ with GreenLight Music

Corbis may be best known for licensing digital images. But the Seattle company, started by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis buys LA product placement firm

Product placements are everywhere, from movies to TV to city buses. Now, Corbis — the Seattle-based digital image company backed… Read More

Tech Moves: Banyan Branch expands; SonoSite taps a new CFO; Radarworks; and more

Banyan Branch, the fast-growing social media agency, has named Jennifer Blank Hecht to the positon of senior vice president of… Read More

Q&A: How an automotive secret can make for better software

Having studied the work of W. Edwards Deming and other pioneers in just-in-time auto production back in college, I was… Read More

Corbis Images buys celebrity photo service Splash News

Corbis Images is bolstering its portfolio of photography of Angelina Jolie, Leanardo DiCaprio and other celebs. The Seattle company, owned… Read More