Facebook buying photo-sharing app Instagram for $1B
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing company Instagram in the social network's largest acquisition ever.Instagram lets people apply filters to photos they snap with their mobile devices and share them with friends and strangers.Some of the filters make the photos look as if they've been taken in the 1970s or on Polaroid cameras. "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,'' CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page. "We don't plan on doing many more of these, if any at all.''Facebook said it plans to keep Instagram running independently.That's a departure from its tendency to buy small startups and integrate the technology, or shut them down altogether just so it can hire talented engineers and developers. "We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience,'' Zuckerberg wrote. "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.''Facebook is paying cash and stock for San Francisco-based Instagram and hiring its roughly 10 employees.
St. Marcus Lutheran School wins Shopko Facebook contest
MILWAUKEE -- Wednesday morning, April 4th, students at St.
Ready or not, Facebook's Timeline is coming
MILWAUKEE -- Facebook users take note.
Does employers asking for Facebook passwords violate fed. law?
SEATTLE (AP) -- Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday.Troubled by reports of the practice, Democratic Sens.
Employers ask job seekers for Facebook password
SEATTLE (AP) — When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references.
Yahoo sues Facebook over patents
NEW YORK (AP) -- Yahoo is filing a lawsuit against Facebook over patents, following through on a threat it made last month.Yahoo Inc.
More victims come forward in Facebook stock scam
OSHKOSH -- She always had the best of everything: new cars, expensive jewelry and nice clothes, but all her riches came at a price!
Oshkosh woman charged with selling fake Facebook stock
OSHKOSH (AP) -- As Facebook announces plans for going public with a stock offering, an Oshkosh woman is charged with selling fake shares of the Internet social networking company.Marianne Oleson is charged with 33 felony charges in Winnebago County Circuit Court.
Woman facing 31 felony counts for selling fake Facebook stock
WINNEBAGO COUNTY -- Social media giant Facebook says it plans to sell stock.
Facebook Timeline: A new kind of profile
Facebook has a new profile called Timeline.
Teacher harassed after appearing in pro-Walker ad
The most recent pro-Walker ad seems to have struck a nerve with recall supporters.
Walker death threat this week, and now more generic threat against GOP on Facebook
Earlier this week, a death threat against Governor Scott Walker posted on Facebook was removed, and Capitol Police investigated, and now the conservative-leaning public policy group the MacIver Institute has uncovered a second, more generic threat against Wisconsin GOP politicians.