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Instagram Surpasses 80 Million Users, 4 Billion Photos Shared

If you're an Instagram user, then you're part of history in the making. The photo sharing network launched exclusively on iOS back in October of 2010, and soon reached Android users as well, and then was snatched up by Facebook in a $1 billion dollar deal. Today, the Instagram team announced they had surpassed 80...

You Can Now View Your Instagram Timeline within Hootsuite

Today Vancouver-based Hootsuite has announced more apps to their app directory, and it now includes the popular iOS (and Android) photo-sharing network, Instagram. So for those that use Hootsuite to manage their social media on the web, Instagram can be installed as a tab alongside your other networks. You will be able to share photos,...

Instagram iOS App Updated

The fate of Instagram was somewhat up in the air, when it was announced that Facebook had acquired the popular iOS photo sharing app. It was quickly learned that the app would be sticking around, and the updates have kept coming. Today, Instagram has been updated to version 2.5 and brings a few new features...

Instagram Photos Can Now Be Sold Online At Instaprints

Great new for Instagramers! A new L.A. based website named Instaprints lets Instagram users sell their photographs as canvas or acrylic prints, greetings cards and posters as noted by an L.A. Times report. Instaprints founder Sean Broihier also founded the online art marketplace Fine Art America, an online marketplace for buying and selling fine art originals and prints, which currently has...

Instagram ‘Socialmatic’ Camera: Snap and Print Pictures Instantly [Concept]

ADR Studios, which has introduced us to concepts such as the iPhone SJ (and recently the iPhone Plus), released this morning a new concept for iOS users to feast their eyes on, the Instagram Socialmatic camera concept. This idea comes from the recent $1 billion dollar Facebook acquisition of Instagram, and the possibility of a standalone camera...

Facebook Mobile Apps to Receive Filters Soon, Skype Video Chat Support [Update]

Update 1: Facebook Canada's PR company contacted us and clarified these new filters are only available to camera phones (non-smartphones): We just wanted to clarify this was just an announcement for the Facebook for Every Phone app which is only for camera-enabled feature phones. According to a post on the Facebook Brazil page, upcoming versions...

How Instagram Managed to Snooker Facebook into Paying $1 Billion

The tech world was buzzing when it was revealed Facebook had acquired the hot photo sharing app Instagram for a $1 billion dollar cash and stock deal. Instagram has no ad revenue model, but its userbase has grown like a weed to more than 30 million users in less than two years. Venture Beat describes...

Facebook to Acquire Instagram for $1 Billion Dollars

Some huge news has hit the web today--Facebook has agreed to purchase popular iOS photo sharing app Instagram for $1 billion dollars. The news was announced on Instagram's blog and by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself. From Instagram: When Mike and I started Instagram nearly two years ago, we set out to change and improve...

Instagram Users Have Shared Over 1 Billion Photos, Android App Released

Popular iOS photo sharing app Instagram has released some eye-popping stats today: 430K+ on its Android waiting list 30 million+ registered users 1 billion+ photos uploaded 5 million+ photos per day 575 likes per second 81 comments per second These numbers were released as part of its announcement that the Android version of the app...

Instagram Wins a 2012 Shorty Award for Best App

Popular iOS photography sharing app Instagram has come away with a 2012 Shorty Award for 'Best App'. Just what are the Shorty Awards? The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media, recognizing the people and organizations producing real-time short form content across Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Foursquare, and the rest of the social Web....