Shutterfly, Inc. is an Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service that enables consumers to share, print, and preserve their memories through photos by using the Company's technology, manufacturing, and Web-design and merchandising capabilities. Shutterfly provides personalized photo-based products and services that allow consumers to upload, edit, enhance, organize, find, share, create, print, and preserve their memories. Consumers use the Company's products and services to stay connected to their friends and family, to organize their memories in a single location, to tell stories and to preserve their memories for themselves and their children. Its customers purchase physical products both for their own personal use and for giving gifts such as photo books, calendars, greeting cards, and other photo-based products and merchandise. In September 2009, the Company acquired Tiny Pictures, backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
