Instagram will share user data with Facebook starting next month

Marking the next big step for Instagram, the photo-sharing service will begin sharing data with Facebook in January.

Instaplayer: a new iPad app to create animated, musical slideshows from live Instagram feeds

You may not be able to get Instagram photos inside Twitter, but at least now you can have them on your iPad. And your TV. With music. And ... in a slideshow.

As Instagram exits Twitter, Pinterest pins arrive inside tweets (updated)

It's not exactly a tit-for-tat swap, but around the same time Instagram photos were stricken from the Twitter experience Pinterest pins started appearing inside tweets.

2 lovers + 32 Postagrams = 1 wedding

Can an Instagram communicate love? Can a postcard make it real?

Postagram, the mobile app that takes your Instagram photos, prints them, and sends them to your friends as postcards, published a beautiful little love story today. Two long-distance lovers …

Instagram’s next move: a novel new camera for iOS and a fresh filter for all

Embroiled in a photo turf war with Twitter, Instagram's deadly weapon of choice is a revamped iOS application that allows users to snap better, more stylized shots.

Here’s why you can still see Instagram photos in Twitter Cards

In a move that's just short of waving a big blue flag with an "F" on it, social photo sharing service Instagram made a decision to de-emphasize its relationship with Twitter recently.

Video-calling app Tango adds Instagram-like filters & cute animal avatars

Popular video-chat application Tango has spiced up its iOS and Android apps with fun (and gimmicky) new features including video filters, avatars, read receipts, and more.

Banjo brings friends on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram together, by location (and it’s awesome)

Most new social-local apps are a bore, frankly. But most don't have a CEO who did a couple of tours of duty in Desert Storm, was a chief mechanic for a NASCAR team, and then, after selling a startup, went back to study at MIT.

Hey, Twitter: You can add filters, but that won’t help you fight Instagram

Twitter plans to alter its mobile applications with photo filters, but that won't help the information network fight off the surging Instagram.

Over half of the world’s top 100 brands now on Instagram

54 percent of the world's biggest 100 brands are now connecting with fans and customers on Instagram, and brand adoption on Instagram is growing faster than Google+ and Pinterest.

Chirpify, not Facebook, swoops in to help brands sell on Instagram

Chirpify has masterminded an ingenious system to do what Facebook can't: help people and brands sell to their fans on Instagram, and pocket a piece of the action in the process.

Facebook has no plans to release Instagram for BlackBerry 10 (exclusive)

Scratch Instagram from the list of brand name applications making their way over to RIM's BlackBerry 10 platform.

Google acquires Instagram competitor, could make Google+ a photog’s social hub

Google bought "photography first" mobile app developer Nik Software today, meaning Google now owns Instagram competitor Snapseed. But while Snapseed will give Google those sepia filters, it also provides an arsenal of photography apps the company can use for its social network, Google+.

Keepsy turns your iPhone into a more personal photography tool

Startup Keepsy has expanded beyond its business of printing digital photos with the release of an iPhone application that assists people in all steps of the mobile photography process.

Instagram officially part of Facebook today: 5B photos shared, 80M users

The "billion-dollar" transaction that has since become a $741 million deal -- due to Facebook's stock price collapse -- is now final.

Facebook granted permit to issue stock in Instagram, deal now days away from closing

After clearing away the legal red tape, Facebook may be just days away from closing its monster cash and stock acquisition of photo-sharing service Instagram.

ComScore top 50 sites July 2012: Instagram rocks, Tumblr passes MySpace, Sun Microsystems rises from the dead

ComScore released its July 2012 Top 50 web properties in the U.S. report yesterday, and it has a few surprises.

Trees are not neon! The Normalize app lets you un-Instagram photos

Before Instagram came along, skies were not aquamarine, and trees were not speckled with neon orange. Normalize restores your photos to their former glory.