Locket. Yes, photosharing can still be innovated. With tens of thousands of photo apps out by now and the more innovative developers having been acquired or become unicorns, are we now past the days that solo developers could reach top ranking with a crazy innovative new app? Fortunately: those days are not quite over! Check out this great story about Matthew Ross, who built an app for his girlfriend who had to move out of town, the app allowing him to post photos on her iPhone’s home screen while she could do the same on his. Add some modern-day grass roots marketing (on TikTok, of course), and Locket, the resulting app, became a runaway hit with 2 million user signups in the first 10 days after it shipped on New Year's Day.

Albelli & Photobox. Merging. Albelli and Photobox are merging. Both companies owned by PE firms, the newly-combined entity will serve a pan-European customer base of over 7M customers, supported by 1,150 employees across the UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Norway and Sweden. Estimated combined market value is €583M, according to one report last fall.

Bazaart. Adding video editing. A sign of the times: Bazaart adds video editing capabilities to the iOS version of its photo editing and graphic design app, following the same path taken by apps the likes of Canva, VSCO and PicsArt.

Rembrandt. The Night Watch at your fingertips. We hear it all the time: going virtual is not quite the same as doing things in-person. In 99% of the cases the connotation is: in-person trumps virtual. For the 1%-ers among us: check out this 717 gigapixel (!) image of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch in all its glorious detail, and compare it with trying to view the painting in a crowded Rijksmuseum with always somebody standing in front of the part you really wanted to inspect.