The billion-dollar deal that shook the web took just 48 hours from start to finish, according to inside sources.
Monday, Facebook announced that it was acquiring photo-sharing phenom Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. The deal, reports the …
Facebook added more categories to its “Download Your Information” feature Thursday, which the social network touts as an important part of protecting your own privacy.
Now you’re able to access and download more data than just messages and photos. You’ll …
Apparently, it’s all sunshine, roses, and lollipops inside Facebook.
Employee morale is at an all-time high, and CEO’s Mark Zuckerberg’s approval rating is off the charts, according to rate-your-company startup Glassdoor.
Overall, Facebook staffers are very satisfied with the company …
Web content discovery service StumbleUpon is rolling out a new Facebook Timeline app today that allow you to share all the cool stuff you find during the day with friends and family.
StumbleUpon’s service lets people discover and share new …
London-based King.com is launching Candy Crush Saga on Facebook today as part of its bid to capitalize on the shift in audience tastes toward increasingly casual games. Since debuting its first social network title last fall, King.com has become the …
Security company OneID is helping to eliminate one of the weakest links on the internet: the password. The company received $7 million in its first round of funding today, led by Khosla Ventures.
OneID says that to make accounts more …
It’s back to school time for the world’s largest social network.
Partially returning to its roots as a locked-down site just for college kids, Facebook has launched Groups for Schools, or university-centric Facebook communities restricted to active faculty and students …
Spotify continues to push the boundaries of streaming music. This morning it released the “Play” button, a widget that lets people embed songs from Spotify on any website. You need at least a free Spotify account to listen, which will …
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News aggregator Wavii wants to build you a Facebook news feed that covers any topic you’re interested in.
“With Wavii, we are building feed items for everything on the planet, not just your friends,” Wavii’s chief executive Adrian Aoun told …
Instagram’s iPhone application has taken over the number one spot on Apple’s top free apps list, for the first time ever, just one day after the company announced that it was being acquired by Facebook for $1 billion.
The Facebook-owned …
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A lot of people were scratching their heads yesterday at the news that Facebook is acquiring photo-sharing site Instagram for $1 billion.
The allure of retro-styled photo filters is pretty weak justification for a price tag that high. But of …
The good news for photo-sharing app Instagram keeps on coming. Just a day after Facebook announced that it would acquire Instagram for $1 billion cash and stock, Instagram’s new Android app has attracted 5 million downloads in just six days.…
The tech press has been teeing off on Google recently, ridiculing the company’s core motto, “Don’t Be Evil”, as it compromises its foundational product, search, in the name of social media. But when it comes to the average American, Google …
Instagram chief executive Kevin Systrom just netted $400 million for selling his two-year-old startup to Facebook for $1 billion. That's according to a report by Wired, which cites sources indicating that Systrom holds 40 percent of the company he founded.
Big dogs like Google, Facebook, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and now the Motion Picture Association of America have all filed briefs in an obscure copyright case currently being heard by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. At stake: what does …
Photo-centric startup Instagram was rumored to be raising huge second round of funding over the past month, which makes the news of its $1 billion sale to Facebook a bit surprising.
The rumors of the round, which haven’t been confirmed …
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Facebook is home to some of the best, brightest hackers in the world. Its brain trust of developers is pretty much legendary, and with today’s Instagram acquisition, some of those developers will be spending time on Instagram now, as well.…
Now that the news of Facebook buying up Instagram has made its way around the Internet, you may be looking for an alternative to the uber-popular photo sharing app. With all of Facebook’s privacy issues, some mobile photographers may shy …
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The world’s largest social network has snatched up the Internet’s most buzzed about mobile app for photo-sharing at a cost of $1 billion, and the question on everyone’s mind is: Why?
The answer is obvious — it’s all about the …
After spending a few hours talking to Facebookers about the company’s mobile strategy, I can safely say that Instagram’s move to Android probably had a lot to do with the $1 billion price the startup fetched in this morning’s acquisition …
