Lowdown: Instagram

Following its $1 billion sale to Facebook, the Instagram photo-sharing app is already an important player in the social media arena, but asks Rob Meldrum in this brief article, can Facebook make a ret...

Lowdown: Instagram

Rob MeldrumWeapon7

The rise of photo-sharing application Instagram has been meteoric, culminating in its sale earlier this year, to Facebook, for $1 billion in cash and stock. In its simplest form, Instagram allows people to take photos with their mobile device, apply 'retro' digital filters, and share across social media networks.

The original iPhone app was launched in October 2010, and quickly became the photo app of choice for Apple fans, hitting over ten million users in its first year. Winning Apple's App of the Year 201 1 and now also running on the Android mobile platform,...

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