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Facebook To Buy Instagram For $1 Billion

Posted by Soulskill on from the payday-at-the-instagram-office dept.

Dorduan writes with news that Facebook is buying Instagram, the company who makes the popular mobile photo-sharing app of the same name, for approximately $1 billion. Mark Zuckerberg wrote, "... in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram's strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook. That's why we're committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people. We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience. We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook."

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  1. Wonder how iPhone idiots will react to this? by teh31337one · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's their reaction to Instagram on android: http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/blog/404116/instagram-for-android

    More here: https://twitter.com/#!/AndroidAGram

    And my personal favourites:

    The Bad Guy @DamnLes
    Apple needs to stop whoever is converting their programs.. Now android have temple run and instagram.. its not special to have an iphone

    Michael @Periphereality
    @DamnLes I agree they need to stop the guy who keeps converting the iPhone apps! It should be illegal isn't it against copywright?!1

    1. Re:Wonder how iPhone idiots will react to this? by TheNinjaroach · · Score: 4, Funny
      My roommate was telling me about some rather amusing quotes he read with regards to Android Instagram. Our favorite:

      Android has Instagram? Well that does it. Prepare to be flooded with pictures of ramen noodles and food stamps.

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      I went to eat some animal crackers and the box said, "Do not eat if seal is broken." I opened the box and sure enough..
    2. Re:Wonder how iPhone idiots will react to this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      i don't typically go all grammer nazi but isn't it supposed to be iDiots?

    3. Re:Wonder how iPhone idiots will react to this? by thesandbender · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes... but everyone knows Apple revolutionized idiots and everyone else is just copying. (lovingly posted from my iMac)

    4. Re:Wonder how iPhone idiots will react to this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought instagram and iphones were big in artist circles. Instagram should already be full of pictures of ramen noodles and food stamps.

  2. Is Slashdot broken today? by readandburn · · Score: 5, Funny

    This news is from earlier today, not from last week. I'm worried that Slashdot may be abandoning its roots.

    1. Re:Is Slashdot broken today? by Bill+Hayden · · Score: 5, Funny

      Our apologies... We've scheduled a dupe for next week to rectify this problem. --The Management

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  3. What's cooler... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's cooler than paying a million dollars for a useless hipster app?

    Paying a BILLION dollars.

  4. Disturbance in Skinny Jeans by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I felt a million hipsters cry out in non-ironic pain, now with no online shelter from their mothers.

  5. Re:Bubble? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Y u no understand powers of 10?

  6. Re:One Billion? by edmicman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Facebook supports Android as well.

    Is that what you call it?