Instragram gekocht door Facebook

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Mark Zuckerberg
I'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.

For years, we've focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we'll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests.

We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram's strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.

That's why we're committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people.

We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience. We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook.

These and many other features are important parts of the Instagram experience and we understand that. We will try to learn from Instagram's experience to build similar features into our other products. At the same time, we will try to help Instagram continue to grow by using Facebook's strong engineering team and infrastructure.

This is an important milestone for Facebook because it's the first time we've ever acquired a product and company with so many users. We don't plan on doing many more of these, if any at all. But providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.

We're looking forward to working with the Instagram team and to all of the great new experiences we're going to be able to build together.

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Facebook to Acquire Instagram for $1B in Cash, Stock

Facebook on Monday announced it has acquired the popular photo-sharing service Instagram for about $1 billion in cash and stock.
Instagram is a barely-two-year-old company that created a photo-sharing application for smart phones and other mobile devices. According to its Web site, Instagram has more than 8 million users on the iPhone platform alone.
Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg posted an announcement on his own Facebook page, saying, “I'm excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook. For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests.”
Instagram, which allows users to post their pictures to social media sites such as Facebook, was founded by two Stanford University graduates, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
Systrom released a statement on his company blog saying, “When Mike and I started Instagram nearly two years ago, we set out to change and improve the way the world communicates and shares. We’ve had an amazing time watching Instagram grow into a vibrant community of people from all around the globe. Today, we couldn’t be happier to announce that Instagram has agreed to be acquired by Facebook.”
Facebook said it has no plans to alter Instagram’s business model and will allow Instagram's users to continue posting their photos on social media sites other than Facebook.
“We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience. We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook,” Zuckerberg said in the statement.
Zuckerberg said the event marked a milestone for the social network because "it's the first time we've ever acquired a product and company with so many users."
"We don't plan on doing many more of these, if any at all," he added.

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