A new challenger appears! Facebook is now beginning to eat up its children, releasing a Camera app that competes directly with its recently purchased Instagram. Is it any good? Should you use both? Which one is better? Let’s dig in.
When Facebook dropped $US1 billion on Instagram, we knew the company was very serious about photos on your mobile phone. We’ve already seen some Instagram-like photo filters, and starting today, Facebook’s news feed is getting a nice cosmetic overhaul.
A message to Facebook’s billion-dollar baby, Instagram: Look out, because Apple might have you in the crosshairs. The Wall Street Journal claims Cupertino is working on a photo-sharing option to be revealed in June at WWDC.
After casually dropping a billion one dollar bills into Instagram’s bulging lap, we were wondering what Facebook would do to its new purchase. Here’s the first step: you’ll soon have Instagram filters on your Facebook app. Sepia.
The Claude glass was an early pocket lens, sans camera, that 18th century men and women would hold aloft to regard the scene over their shoulder.
We’ve already seen a fake, malware-spreading version of Angry Birds Space for Android. Now there are reports of a fake, malware-spreading Instagram that’s making the rounds, too.
If you’ve been thinking that Facebook ponied up too much cash in its takeover of Instagram, here’s an interesting fact: Mark Zuckerberg had to negotiate hard to get the price down from an insane $US2 billion to $US1 billion.
