Friday, December 21, 2012

Lessons from Facebook's Instagram Photo Flap

Instagram's goal was clear: the service has tens of millions of users, but like its parent company Facebook (which has 1 billion users), Instagram is looking for ways to make money off of its users' content, in this case photos. Keep in mind that at

The latest privacy shenanigan involves Facebook's Instagram, a photo sharing service acquired for $1 billion this past summer in a bid to bolster Facebook's mobile business. Make no mistake, Facebook is firmly planted in the era of money making. The

The reality star is the No.1 user on the photo-sharing company, and her decision to axe her account could seriously hurt Instagram.

On Tuesday, the popular mobile photo-sharing app Instagram backpedaled on a plan to sell users' photos to advertisers after an outcry on social media and privacy rights blogs. That was shortly after it announced policy changes for January related to

The reality star is the No.1 user on the photo-sharing company, and her decision to axe her account could seriously hurt Instagram.

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