Facebook's Instagram photo sharing service asked a federal court on Wednesday to throw out a lawsuit filed against the popular app over changes to its terms of service. ...
01:22 PM, Feb 14, 2013
With the view to make Instagram even more accessible to the growing community, Instagram has now announced that users can now browse their Instagram feeds on the web - just like you do on your mobile device. ...
12:49 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Though BlackBerry announced the launch of BlackBerry 10 OS with 70,000 apps - which according to the company is by far the most for a first-generation platform in mobile history - the company failed to release the highly coveted Instagram app for BlackBerry 10 devices on the day of launch. Another app that people are looking for on BlackBerry 10 is Netflix. ...
05:38 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Angry Birds, Instagram and Facebook continued to be among the most downloaded apps of the year but rising stars also earned coveted spots on smartphones and tablets. ...
10:44 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Facebook Inc's Instagram lost almost a quarter of its daily users a week after it rolled out and then withdrew policy changes that incensed users who feared the photo-sharing service would use their pictures without compensation. ...
11:51 AM, Dec 30, 2012
Facebook's Instagram photo sharing service has been hit with what appears to be the first civil lawsuit to result from changed service terms that prompted howls of protest last week. ...
11:16 AM, Dec 25, 2012
San Francisco: Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service, has retreated from some but not all of the controversial changes in its terms of service that prompted a fierce backlash from users earlier this week. In a blog post on Thursday, Instagram founder and CEO Kevin Systrom apologised for a failure to "communicate our intentions clearly." The terms of service changes pertaining to advertising have been reversed, Systrom said, and restored to...
06:17 PM, Dec 21, 2012
Stockholm: Dozens of angry youths in southwestern Sweden pelted police with rocks and bottles in unrest apparently triggered by derogatory material published on the Internet. No injuries were reported Tuesday, but police detained 27 youths in the clashes at the Plus High School in Goteborg, Sweden's second-largest city. Swedish public television said the students were upset over photos and sexually explicit texts about local teenagers that someone posted on photo-sharing...
01:58 PM, Dec 19, 2012
San Francisco: Instagram, which spurred suspicions this week that it would sell user photos after revising its terms of service, has sparked renewed debate about how much control over personal data users must give up to live and participate in a world steeped in social media. In forcefully establishing a new set of usage terms, Instagram, the massively popular photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc, has claimed some rights that...
09:22 AM, Dec 19, 2012
San Francisco: Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing service now owned by Facebook, said Tuesday that it will remove language from its new terms of service suggesting that users' photos could appear in advertisements. The language in question had appeared in updated policies announced Monday and scheduled to take effect January 16. After an outcry on social media and privacy rights blogs, the company clarified that it has no plans to...
09:14 AM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: Instagram, which was recently acquired by Facebook, has announced that it is updating its terms of service and privacy policy. Some of the new changes, that will be effective on January 16, 2013, have sparked off protests from users. The new terms of service and privacy policy will bring them in line with Facebook's policies. In a post on its blog, Instagram assured users that, "nothing has changed...
07:26 PM, Dec 18, 2012
San Francisco: Weeks before he accepted a $1 billion offer from Facebook, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom had verbally agreed to sell his photo-sharing company to Twitter Inc for $525 million in March - but then called off the deal, according to a New York Times report citing unnamed sources. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ultimately acquired Instagram after pushing through a cash-and-stock deal just weeks before Facebook's May initial public offering....
06:01 AM, Dec 17, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter on Monday introduced the ability to add colour filters to user-uploaded photos, a step that sharpened its budding rivalry with Facebook. Twitter's filters mimic the popular feature that has defined Instagram, the booming photo service acquired by Facebook this year for $715 million. Although the new filters represent a modest product announcement affecting a small slice of Twitter's overall user experience, the move carries symbolic weight in...
07:40 AM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: Google has launched a content sharing app, called Snapseed. With Instagram like functions, the app allows users to edit images and share the same via Google+ or other social networks. Snapseed has been developed by a company called Nik Software, which has been brought by Google sometime back. Notably, the Snapseed application was even adjudged as the best iPad app last year, and was available for $4.99 for...
01:36 PM, Dec 07, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc is proposing to combine user data with that of recently acquired photo-sharing service Instagram, and will loosen restrictions on emails between members of the social network. Facebook also said on Wednesday it is proposing to scrap a 4-year old process that can allow the social network's roughly 1 billion users to vote on changes to its policies and terms of services. Facebook said it may share...
10:52 AM, Nov 22, 2012
New York: Instagram, the photo-sharing app that was created for mobile phones, is expanding to the Web. The service will launch Instagram profiles on the Web over the next few days. Previously, users' profiles existed only on Instagram's mobile applications accessed on the iPhone or Android devices. Now, users will have a website with a profile photo, bio and a selection of the snapshots they've recently shared on Instagram. Instragram,...
02:31 PM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: There has been some enmity between Twitter and Instagram, which started after Facebook purchased the image-sharing social networking platform. According to the New York Times, Twitter is planning to update its mobile apps to introduce filters – much like Instagram – and allow users to quickly click pictures, and share them over the microblogging website. Though it might seem unnecessary to introduce the Instagram-like feature to a wildly...
02:36 PM, Nov 04, 2012
San Francisco: Google has snapped up the digital photo editing service Snapseed as part of its effort to compete against Facebook's online social network. Snapseed is the centrepiece of Google's acquisition of Nik Software, which developed the service's photo-editing technology. The deal announced Monday gives Google a popular service that competes against Facebook's Instagram, whose tools are widely used to display, touch up and share photos taken on smartphones and...
10:52 AM, Sep 18, 2012
