Google Acquire Online Photo Editing Site Picnik

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Google has acquired online photo editing site Picnik, Picnik is reporting on its blog that it has been acquired by Google.

About Picnik: It is a service that allows user to “make their photos fabulous” with a set of editing tools that include effects, fonts, shapes and frames.

This story is really shocked the yahoo because Picnik photo editing tools are already incorporated into Yahoo Flickr as well as Facebook. In Picasa also the Picnik is used as default photo editing tool. May be Google will use this opportunity to cut a chout out of Flickr by withdrawing Picnik from Yahoo Flickr and keeping it Picasa only.
In a blog post of Picnik the firm writes:

We’ve just been acquired by Google! What does this mean for Picnik? It means we can think BIG. Google processes petabytes of data every day, and with their worldwide infrastructure and world-class team, it is truly the best home we could have found.
Under the Google roof we’ll reach more people than ever before, impacting more lives and making more photos more awesome.

In a Blog post of Google, they confirm the news:

We’re not announcing any significant changes to Picnik today, though we’ll be working hard on integration and new features. As well, we’d like to continue supporting all existing Picnik partners so that users will continue to be able to add their photos from other photo sharing sites, make edits in the cloud and then save and share to all relevant networks.

It seen interesting that in future what Google are going to acquire.