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PMA, Jackson, Mich., hosted meetings at its headquarters May 19-20, for the Retail Portrait and Event Photography Committee, Sports Photographers Association of America (SPAA) Committee, Society of Photo Finishing Engineers (SPFE) Committee, and the People Lab Committee. May 21-22 PMA will host the PMAS Committee, Mass Merchandisers Committee, Online Imaging Committee, and Photo Retailers & On-Site Lab/National [...]

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·    Glynn Lavender is retail operations manager of Camera Action Camera House[Link]  and Camera House Digital[Link...the links are different and correct in NLI. Thanks!], in Melbourne, Australia. Learn about this thriving business and Lavender’s goals for his new role as DIMA board member in the newest DIMAcast.
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· Fujifilm Graphic Systems U.S.A. Inc., Valhalla, N.Y., named Masahiro Ota the company’s new president and chief executive officer. Ota replaces Hiro Tada, who has taken a new position as president and chief executive officer with Fujifilm’s Medical Imaging Division. Ota joined Fujifilm in 1980 and first worked in human resources in the Fujinomiya site [...]

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PMA, Jackson, Mich., released the Monthly Printing and Camera Trends Report covering highlights and overviews through February by PMA Marketing Research. The report covers digital print volume, digital printing share — detail, and digital printing share — channel trends. The report also includes data provided by NPD Group Inc. detailing overall camera sales, analog, one-time-use, [...]

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PMA, Jackson, Mich., announces the availability of the  2008 DIMA Photo Kiosk Virtual Showroom Report, designed to help retailers get the most of their photo kiosk strategies. Tested both by consumers and by experts, the 25 photo kiosks included in the report were placed in a side-by-side comparison at the DIMA Photo Kiosk Shoot-Out Competition, [...]

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Canon Inc., Tokyo, Japan, reported earnings for the first quarter ended March 31. Net sales for the first quarter were ¥1.01 trillion (US$10.08 billion) a 3 percent decrease from the ¥1.04 trillion reported last year. Net income for the first quarter dropped 18.7 percent to ¥106.64 billion (US$1.07 billion) from the ¥131.2 trillion ¥131.25 billion, reported [...]

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The photo and video sharing site Photobucket Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., announced the broad release of its application programming interface that will allow Web developers to build new applications based on Photobucket’s digital media sharing technology, reports the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

  The API and supporting materials let developers give users access to their photos [...]

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Framing Success Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., a leader in custom diploma framing, was acquired by Herff Jones Inc. on April 4. Framing Success will maintain its name and will continue to operate from its new headquarters building in Virginia Beach.

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Entrepeneur and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki kicks off the first AIE Imaging Executive podcast with a discussion on the basics of entrepeneurship, new models of the internet business, and what it takes to compete in the next wave of the Internet.

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·    Today’s addition to the DIMA podcast library presents the Closing Keynote session from  DIMA 2007 held in Las Vegas, Nev., in March, just prior to PMA 07. Graham Nash and R. Mac Holbert, founders of Nash Editions Ltd., Manhattan Beach, Calif., were presented with the DIMA Lifetime Achievement Award. Nash and Holbert then [...]

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