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Big business loves Instagram
Fortune 500 companies are looking at the big picture as they embrace social media.
By Colleen Leahey, reporter
FORTUNE -- About a year before Facebook bought the photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion, General Electric (GE) joined. Instagram users take and share pictures on their smartphones and "follow" other users' photostreams. GE (No. 6 on the Fortune 500) has 86,066 followers. Instagram's retro-filters can make GE's photos look like a history MORE
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What does all this 'bubble' talk have to do with Apple?
Something may burst, but it's not the company that's making money hand over fist
FORTUNE -- It's symptomatic of the delusion that characterizes much of the thinking in Silicon Valley these days that someone could read Chris Dixon's nuanced "Is it a tech bubble?" post that was Techmeme's lead story Monday and turn it into an "Apple is about to burst" screed.
"You can't trust those P/E and other calculations when companies MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 30, 2012 7:40 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Is Facebook worth $104 billion?
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"Regardless of how you feel about digital ecosystems or about Google, please do not take the free and open internet for granted from government intervention. To the extent that free flow of information threatens the powerful, those in power will seek to suppress it." -- Google co-founder Sergey Brin (Google+)
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JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 19, 2012 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Facebook, Google, Instagram, Kevin Systrom, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Sheryl Sandberg, Zuckerberg -
Today in Tech: Yahoo to kill 50 properties in restructuring
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* Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson announced he's cutting or "transitioning" at least 50 Yahoo properties to focus on core products like Mail, Finance, and Sports. (Techcrunch)
* Still wowed by Facebook's $1 billion purchase of Instagram? Prepare to be wowed again. The company actually wanted twice that initially. (The Wall Street Journal)
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JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 18, 2012 11:54 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Yahoo restructures
Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day.
* Yahoo (YHOO) is indeed restructuring into three distinct areas: Consumer, Regions, and Technology. (All Things D)
* In light of Instagram's $1 billion buyout by Facebook, a look at 30 of the most notable tech acquisitions from the last decade. (Wired)
* Amazon (AMZN) finally rolled out its in-app purchasing service, which MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 11, 2012 7:45 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion, boosts mobile strategy?
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* In a surprising move, Facebook is buying Instagram for $1 billion. Did Instagram's latest round of funding cause Facebook to panic? More importantly, will the insanely popular photo-sharing app solve the social network's mobile problems? Also, a brief profile of Instagram founder and CEO Kevin Systrom. (Fortune and The Wall Street Journal)
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Today in Tech: Big Yahoo layoffs today, Instagram hits Android
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* Facebook countered Yahoo's (YHOO) lawsuit with a lawsuit of its own, spanning 10 patents covering areas like homepage, photos, and ads. (Friending Facebook Blog)
* Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app with over 30 million users, just officially arrived on Google's Android operating system. (TechCrunch)
* Up to 2,000 Yahoo employees could be laid MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 4, 2012 3:30 AM ET -
5 things that mattered at SXSW
Couldn't make it to this year's new media pow-wow? Here's everything you need to know in 500 words or less.
FORTUNE -- This year's South by Southwest Interactive may be remembered just as much for what happened outside the halls of the Austin Convention Center as what happened in them. Here's a look at the biggest news stories to come out of the five-day media free-for-all:
Homeless hotspots? Sometimes marketing results in MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 14, 2012 9:22 AM ETPosted in: BBH Labs, CNN, Google, Highlight, homeless hotspots, Instagram, Kevin Systrom, mashable, Paul Davison, South by Southwest, SXSW -
Today in Tech: Instagram hits 27 million users, Android version coming
Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the weekend. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day.
* Instagram reported that it now has 27 million registered users."It's Facebook-level engagement that we're seeing," co-founder Kevin Systrom said at South by Southwest over the weekend. Also, the long-awaited Android version is coming very soon. According to Systrom, it will be better in some ways than the current iPhone version. (Mashable)
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JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 12, 2012 5:30 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Is Instagram worth $500 million?
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* Popular photo-sharing app Instagram may soon raise a new round of funding valuing the startup at up to $500 million. (The Wall Street Journal)
* A profile of Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka "Sabu." The online figure led a group of "hacktivists," and then when caught, contributed to their capture by becoming MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 9, 2012 1:53 AM ET
