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Instagram has introduced a new Photos of You section.

Should we be wary of what we post to social networks like Instagram? Montreal resident Jennifer Pawluck found out the hard way. She posted a picture of Cmdr. Ian Lafrenière, a Montreal police spokesman, shown with a bullet hole piercing his head on March 26th to Instagram, reports the CBC. According to the law, something deemed...

Instagram has announced it has surpassed 100 million active users per month, after launching its photo network back in October 2010, as written by co-founder Kevin Systrom (they hit over 10 million users in less than year): Now, nearly two and a half years later, over 100 million people use Instagram every month. It’s easy to...

Instagram has announced today they have now made your feed available from the web. All you have to do is visit instagram.com and login: Your Instagram Feed on the web functions much like it does on your mobile phone. You can browse through the latest photos of people whom you follow with updates as people...

AllThingsD reports Instagram has released monthly active user data for the first time (instead of just revealing registered users, which were at 100 million in December). Currently, there are 90 million monthly active users posting 40 million pictures per day. The numbers were posted to Instagram's press page: Even with some users 'revolting' over the company's...

Instagram has just published a blog post revealing the top locations of images posted to the photo network from 2012. Can you guess where the top Instagrammed (that's a verb now?) location was? It was Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, which had over 100,000 pictures taken there in 2012. Here's the full list of 2012's top locations: Suvarnabhumi...

Reuters reports Instagram's new revised terms of service has spurred a class action lawsuit against the company by a California user: Facebook's Instagram photo sharing service has been hit with what appears to be the first civil lawsuit to result from changed service terms that prompted howls of protest last week. In a proposed class...

Instagram has released an update just prior to the shutdown of iTunes Connect for the holidays. This new version introduces a new filter called "Mayfair", adds Facebook iOS 6 integration, more languages support and the ability to share photos from any album, plus some bug fixes. What's New in Version 3.4.0 - Instagram is now...

Instagram's co-founder, Kevin Systrom, has published a long and detailed letter on the company blog explaining how they will not be selling your photos. The note was written after the Instagram community was up in arms over their recently changed terms of service: Advertising on Instagram From the start, Instagram was created to become a...

instagram logo, from Nov. 2010 Instagram updated their Terms of Use which will allow the company to sell your pictures, as part of their strategy to start monetizing the app, which we have all been aware of: Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid...

Here's some Saturday afternoon reading, courtesy of the New York Times on their piece about how Instagram has resulted in some smart entrepreneurs: These entrepreneurs have realized that they can piggyback on the popularity of Instagram, which has more than 100 million users, and create their own businesses, some of which have turned out to...

Business Insider reports Facebook has confirmed ads are coming to Instagram, the popular photo sharing network it acquired in a $1 billion deal. The confirmation comes from Carolyn Everson, Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions at Facebook. She told BI ads are coming at their Ignition 2012 conference. BI: Will you put ads in Instagram? CE: Eventually...