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Rumor: Color Turned Down A $200 Million Offer From Google

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


For those of you that do not know what Color is, they are a mobile photo social network that was founded by Bill Nguyen. Rumor has it that Google offered them $200 million before their company even launched.
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Chief Product Officer DJ Patil Resigns from Color

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Riley Kennysmith

Color Labs, of the Color mobile photo sharing app, has lost Chief Product Officer DJ Patil. TechCrunch reports that Patil resigned from Color after working for them for about 5 months, and was previously LinkedIn’s chief scientist. Patil will remain an advisor to Color, but the transition is definitely a hit to the company, which lost cofounder Peter Pham last month.

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Color.com Raises $41 Million For Building Location Photo- and Video-Sharing Social Network

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


Color.com is a service that came out of nowhere this week and shocked the press. The company has developed an application for smartphones that automatically lets you share photos with the people around you. Essentially they are calling it photo sharing with an “implied social network.”
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