{"id":59,"date":"2012-04-10T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/?p=59"},"modified":"2012-04-10T08:14:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T08:14:47","slug":"facebook-acquires-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/facebook-acquires-instagram","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Acquires Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_60\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/files\/2012\/04\/instagram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60\" title=\"Facebook acquires instagram\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/files\/2012\/04\/instagram.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook acquires instagram\" width=\"448\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/files\/2012\/04\/instagram.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/files\/2012\/04\/instagram-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook acquires instagram<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Facebook acquired the photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. The two-year-old company makes photo-sharing applications that allow smartphone users to snap photos in a variety of retro styles and share them with friends on the service, over e-mail, or on a variety of other social networks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The acquisition is more evidence that we live in \u201cbubblicious\u201d times: The startup makes no money and has 13 employees, all of whom work out of Twitter\u2019s original offices in San Francisco\u2019s South Park neighborhood. Of course, that didn\u2019t matter to Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg: \u201cFor years, we\u2019ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we\u2019ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests,\u201d Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook acquired the photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. The two-year-old company makes photo-sharing applications that allow smartphone users to snap photos in a variety of retro styles and share them with friends on the service, over e-mail, or on a variety of other social networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-facebook","category-featured","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/internet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}