May 16th, 2012
Photo-sharing service Flickr isn’t in the doldrums, exactly, but it certainly hasn’t been acquired by Facebook for $1bn. Why did the Yahoo subsidiary miss out on becoming the first huge mobile...
April 16th, 2012
That $1bn acquisition by Facebook isn’t the only bit of good news for photo-sharing app Instagram this month. It’s just surged past the 40m registered-users milestone, having added 10m in the...
April 11th, 2012
How’s Instagram’s Android app doing? Fairly well. The app was released last week, yet six days later it has already raced past the 5m installs mark. As TheNextWeb notes, it took six months...
April 10th, 2012
By now, you’ll surely have seen the news that Facebook has paid a cool $1bn for photo-sharing startup Instagram. So what now? Here’s our take: It’s partly a defensive move to ensure the...
April 5th, 2012
Photo-sharing app Instagram has been downloaded more than 1m times by Android users in its first day on Google’s Play store. The store makes public every app’s number of installs, with Instagram...
March 26th, 2012
Path was the first social app to get dinged for uploading users’ address books without asking them first. Now that’s sorted, the startup is focusing on renewed growth. With 2m users, CEO Dave...
March 22nd, 2012
Instagram and Hipstamatic are rival photo-sharing apps with some crossover in their features (e.g. filters to make pics look good). Yet they’re now working together. Hipstamatic is the first app...
March 21st, 2012
It seems Justin Bieber is proving fairly popular on photo-sharing service Instagram. He joined last July, and has since collected more than 1m followers – the first Instagram user to reach that milestone....
March 19th, 2012
Nokia continues to make apps in-house for its Windows Phone smartphones: Creative Studio is the latest. The key feature are “Live Styles”, which are basically Instagram-like filters: ‘Sketch’,...
