Instagram, which became slang for $1 billion in Silicon Valley as of late, saw a 78% increase in unique viewers in April, according to comScore, making it the fastest growing internet property in that time frame. MLB and Directv sites …

Ah, Instagram, friend of would-be photographers everywhere. The super popular app for iPhone and Android has enabled people of all skill levels to take fancy photos with the touch of a button and a few applications of various filters. No …

Facebook has announced that its new Camera app will be launching later today. The app is a social photo-sharing app similar to Instagram. Facebook Product Manager Dirk Stoop outlined briefly what functionality the app will have. When users first download …

The SEO Company, an English search engine optimization specialist, has teamed up with Louisville, Kentucky-based e-marketing company NowSourcing, to produce the Social Media 2012 Infographic. Pinterest’s meteoric rise is mentioned, though recent reports have noted a loss of popularity. Hacker …

It’s common industry knowledge that Facebook recently acquired photo sharing platfrom Instagram for a quick billion, and it’s common general knowledge that Facebook today filed its IPO. Now it’s been reported that said IPO has added about $243 million in …

Facebook’s far-famed $1 billion purchase of Instagram may be in a bit of trouble. It seems that in IPO-related documents filed with the SEC today, Facebook revised its expectation of when the deal would close. The original projection had the …

Users who jump onto the Lightbox website this afternoon will be surprised with a short message declaring that the Lightbox team is joining Facebook. Over on the Lightbox blog, Thai Tran and Nilesh Patel, the co-founders of Lightbox, posted a …

What was once speculation has now taken shape in reality: Facebook will be on the receiving end of a competition probe from the Federal Trade Commission as a result of the social networking site’s purchase of Instagram last month. According …

It’s safe to say that one of the most surprising acquisitions of 2012 was Facebook’s $1 billon grab of photo-filtering-sharing network Instagram. Nobody denied that Instagram was popular – it had just seen an enormous swell after finally launching an …

It’s common industry knowledge that Facebook acquired photo sharing application Instagram for a quick $1 billion recently, and with the social network’s projected $5 billion IPO pending, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained his reasoning behind the purchase at a …

Although she’s primarily known throughout the world as hockey star Wayne Gretzky’s daughter, a lot of people online know her as the attractive 22 year-old who can’t seem to stop posting racy photos of herself via Twitter. Although Wayne had …

Looks like the debacle over people wanting to get rid of Instagram after the Facebook acquisition turned out to be just talk. Either that, or Insagram doesn’t really need the people that quit, because they now have over 50 million …

Viddy, a sort of Instagram for video, has just revealed that it’s going for $30 million in venture capitol during its series B funding, with a valuation of $370 million – while likely banking on its 10 million users. This …

Socialcam, a social video app for iPhone and Android that has been spreading like wildfire, has added a new feature, in attempts to keep hold of it’s 4 million new users garnered over the past weekend. Justin Kan, the co-founder …

Facebook Inc., the new owner of photo sharing platform Instagram, might be adding a new media functionality to its social network – embed codes to allow users to post videos uploaded to their profiles onto other sites. At present, Facebook …

Considering the war of words that broke out after Instagram was made available to Android users, perhaps Samsung is onto something. Is it a sense of insecurity that goes with owning Apple products, or are people really that butthurt over …

Ben Horowitz, cofounder and General Partner of high technology venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, just explained on his blog why his company was only able to achieve a $78 million dollar return on an initial $250,000 investment in Instagram. For …

While it’s common knowledge that Facebook recently purchased Instagram for $1 billion quite quickly, it has now been revealed that Google was never interested in the photo sharing platform in the first place, according to Google’s VP of Corporate Development …

So now that we have learned that Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram wasn’t so much a Facebook purchase as it was a Mark Zuckerberg joint, the next arbitrary aspect that we must speculate upon is whether or not Facebook …

When the month of April began, life was still wonderful for lovers of Instagram. The company had not yet been bought by Facebook. More importantly, there was no Android version. When Instagram – one of the iPhone’s most popular photography …

Caution to all ye eager Android users who can’t wait to join the Instagram craze: be careful about where you download the app because there’s a nasty Instagram decoy floating around out there that will infect your device with some …