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Is Facebook's big Instagram purchase worth it?
by
Eve Troeh
Apr 10, 2012
Facebook is making its biggest purchase yet as it prepares to go public. The company is buying the photo-sharing app Instagram for a billion dollars.
Instagram could struggle to turn a profit
by
Eve Troeh
Apr 10, 2012
Facebook is buying the mobile app company Instagram for $1 billion. But when many similar image-based companies have failed to make a profit, will Instagram be any different?
Facebook to pay one billion for Instagram
Apr 9, 2012
The company's photo-sharing app and social network will be Facebook's biggest acquisition yet
The social networking deal
by
Kai Ryssdal
Apr 9, 2012
A quick look at the social media landscape, and not everyone is happy about the Facebook-Instagram deal.
The social networking deal
by
Kai Ryssdal
Apr 9, 2012
A quick look at the social media landscape, and not everyone is happy about the Facebook-Instagram deal.
A trip across the country with no human contact
by
Molly Wood
Mar 28, 2012
Fight it if you want, but the robots are coming. Marketplace’s David Brancaccio is embarking on a deep investigative experiment on how robots are taking over. Plus, what is the Instagrammiest Instagram photo?
Facebook gets filtered
by
Marc Sanchez
Aug 25, 2011
Apparently one of Facebook's summer plans was to acquire the uber-popular photo sharing site, Instagram. What's appealing to people about Instagram...
For public good, not for profit.
How Flickr missed the boat that Instagram caught
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John Moe
Dec 27, 2010
Instagram is one of the hottest new social media platforms out there. It's all about photo sharing, super easy to use your iPhone to take pictures,...