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It might be a little (or a lot) late to the party, but Twitter-based photo-sharing service Twitpic has joined the iTunes App Store with a new app that offers features not unlike the increasingly popular Instagram. The app looks and feels a lot like its competitors, and it’s impossible not to draw ... Full Article »
Sometimes keeping up with your social networks takes too much effort, especially if you just want to sit back and watch the content roll in. Screenfeeder is one of the newest passive readers for universal devices, but instead of relegating itself to your iPhone or iPad, the app also supports use on ... Full Article »
Even though Instagram was named App of the Year by iTunes in 2011 (despite being released in 2010), at least one senior Apple executive has soured on the iconic photo-sharing application that was acquired for approximately $1 billion earlier this month by Facebook. Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of M ... Full Article »
Ever since Instagram started to explode in popularity last year, lots of apps have been trying to capture the app’s success, but in the video sphere. It makes sense. Video capabilities on Apple’s iOS devices, specifically on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, are quite impressive, and there are tons o ... Full Article »
“A billion dollars? For an app that sepia-tones my stupid bar photos? The Angry Birds developers are spinning in their officially licensed Angry Birds brand swivel chairs right now.” That was basically my reaction to finding out that Facebook went ahead and wrote a check with a whole lot of zer ... Full Article »
As the dust settles from Facebook’s announced $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, avid users of the iOS and Android photo-sharing app have one prevailing question. How will Instagram change, if at all, now that it is a part of Facebook? As the deal will not formalize for at least a few weeks, w ... Full Article »
In a major app industry development, Facebook has just announced that it will acquire the leading photo sharing app Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and shares. Launched in late 2010, Instagram has nearly 30 million registered iOS users. Last week, the company also finally released it ... Full Article »
BREAKING NEWS: On Monday April 9, 2012, Facebook announced it had acquired Instagram for $1 billion. Original story follows: Fresh off adding an Android app to its incredibly popular iOS offering, photo sharing app Instagram is up for a $500 million valuation, led by investor Sequoia Capital, ac ... Full Article »
FastCompany had an interesting scoop today about popular photo-sharing app company Instagram. Today, Instagram finally opened up its API to third-party apps and services, and the first app to take advantage of this is the also-popular camera app, Hipstamatic. Instagram is a hugely successful photo- ... Full Article »
Last week, social networking app Path got itself into trouble when it was revealed that the app was accessing and transferring users’ contact lists from their smartphones iPhones and iPads without permission. Path wasn’t necessarily doing anything insidious, but it was uploading users’ lists ... Full Article »
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