Categories: OLD Media Moves

Forbes buys photo sharing application

Forbes Media announced Monday the acquisition of the private photo sharing app Camerama.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Effective immediately, the founder of Camerama, Salah Akram Zalatimo, will join the company as vice president of mobile products, reporting to Forbes Media chief product officer Lewis Dvorkin.  Zalatimo will assume the responsibility of building on Forbes’ mobile strategy by developing a platform of apps for the company, leveraging the core technology that served as the foundation of Camerama.

“Salah brings with him a unique set of skills, experiences and assets.  He’s been a founder of a business, he has the technical know-how and the data-driven mindset that will help Forbes expand its growth in mobile apps,” said Dvorkin in a statement.  “Our goal is to build passionate communities under the Forbes umbrella – the kind that marketers want to reach and that generate valuable and relevant content.”

Zalatimo founded Camerama in 2014.  After specializing in media for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., he worked as an independent consultant for several of the world’s leading media companies, including Bertelsmann, Sony Music and The New York Times.  He earned his BA and MBA from Columbia University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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