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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
I'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram — I'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook. For years, we've focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family.
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Here is why Facebook bought Instagram — You might have heard by now that Facebook has acquired Instagram for nearly a billion dollars in cash and stock. Incredible, isn't it? I have received text messages of awe and shock from many people in the Valley, for no one saw this coming.
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| Kevin Systrom / Instagram: |
Instagram + Facebook — When Mike and I started Instagram nearly two years ago, we set out to change and improve the way the world communicates and shares. We've had an amazing time watching Instagram grow into a vibrant community of people from all around the globe.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Facebook to Acquire Photo-Sharing Start-Up Instagram for $1B — Facebook has just announced that it will acquire Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service for $1 billion in cash and shares. — The social networking site posted on the acquisition, its biggest yet, on its site …
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| Mike Isaac / Wired: |
Exclusive: Facebook Deal Nets Instagram CEO $400 Million — Facebook's acquisition of the immensely popular photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion is far and away the largest acquisition in the history of the world's largest social network. But for CEO Kevin Systrom and company, it's a windfall payday like none other.
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| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook helps Instagram with unique Open Graph app rollout — Facebook and Instagram have been working together for weeks on an Open Graph integration for the mobile photo sharing app, Inside Facebook has discovered. — Facebook, which announced today that it acquired Instagram for $1 billion … | Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Right Before Acquisition, Instagram Closed $50M At A $500M Valuation From Sequoia, Thrive, Greylock And Benchmark — I'm as shocked as you are, namely because I was working on this as a funding story all morning. Anyways, right before its billion dollar acquisition from Facebook … | Lauren Goode / AllThingsD: |
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Why Microsoft spent $1 billion on AOL's patents — Microsoft dropped an eye-popping $1 billion on 800 AOL patents today, an astonishing amount likely spent to keep the intellectual property trove away from rival Google. — But according to a source close to the situation, Google didn't even bid on the portfolio.
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| Amrutha Gayathri / International Business Times: |
Iran To Shut Down Internet Permanently; ‘Clean’ National Intranet In Pipeline — Millions of Internet users in Iran will be permanently denied access to the World Wide Web and cut off from popular social networking sites and email services, as the government has announced its plans to establish a national Intranet within five months.
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| Dave Thier / Forbes: |
Computer Legend and Gaming Pioneer Jack Tramiel Dies at Age 83 — Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International and crucial figure in the early history of video games, died passed away surrounded by his family on Sunday, his family confirms. He was 83 years old.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Chrome OS Will Soon Look More Like Windows Than A Browser — It's hard to say how popular Chrome OS, Google's browser-centric operating system, really is. There can be little doubt, though, that Google is quite serious about this initiative. Today, Google launched … | Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
About Pando — Some of you may have read Sarah Lacy's post today stating that I'm no longer on the board of Pando Daily. — This wasn't a complete surprise to me, the company notified me last week that they weren't happy that I and MG Siegler (my partner at CrunchFund) were going to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt this coming May.
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| Android Developers Blog: |
A Faster Emulator with Better Hardware Support — The Android emulator is a key tool for Android developers in building and testing their apps. As the power and diversity of Android devices has grown quickly, it's been hard for the emulator keep pace. Today we're thrilled … | Clint Boulton / The CIO Report: |
Google Organizational Changes Cloud the Future of Apps — Signs are emerging that Google is de-emphasizing its efforts in online productivity tools that compete with Microsoft, which was never the core of its business to being with, to focus even more on search and social networking, and its increasing competition with Facebook.
| Electronista: |
Nokia Lumia 900 hit by bug that disables data — Nokia Lumia 900 launch marred by data bug — Nokia's Lumia 900 launch has been partly soured by a bug encountered by early adopters. Both an AT&T source for Phone Arena, as well as buyers on Nokia's forums and those at WPCentral … | Kunur Patel / AdAge: |
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Windows-on-iPad service goes legit as Microsoft licensing demands are met — A hosted Windows and Microsoft Office service for the iPad and Android tablets that violated Microsoft's software licensing rules has apparently gone legitimate, with a new structure that complies with Microsoft guidelines for providing virtual desktops.| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Carriers Band to Fight Cellphone Theft — The nation's major wireless providers have agreed to a deal with the U.S. government to build a central database of stolen cellphones—part of a broad effort to tame an explosion of thefts nationwide. — The database, which the wireless companies … Sponsor Posts
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