Lightbox.com

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Lightbox.com
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Viewing a posted photo in Lightbox Android app
Developer(s) Lightbox
Initial releaseJune 5, 2011;9 years ago (2011-06-05) [1]
Operating system Android 2.1 or later
Size 2.3  MB
Type Photobloging
License Freeware
Website lightbox.com

Lightbox.com was a website, Android app, [2] and photo blogging platform that allowed users to post images, text, links, and more to their personal photo blog. [3]

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History

Founded by Thai Tran [4] (formerly a product manager at Google and YouTube) and Nilesh Patel, [5] Lightbox received $1.1 million in seed funding from Index, Accel, SV Angel, 500 Startups, and others. [2] [5]

On December 12, 2011, Lightbox launched its Version 2.0. [6] At this time, Tran announced that the Android app was approaching 1 million downloads. [4]

On May 15, 2012, the Lightbox.com team was acquired by Facebook This had caused Lightbox to be fully closed on June 15, 2012. [7]

On November 14, 2015, in spite of the prior entity's closure, owner registration of the "lightbox.com" internet domain name was renewed for 10 additional years, through 2025. [8]

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