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There's A Misspelled Word In Kevin Durant's Giant Back Tattoo
10 hours ago - Business Insider - May 22, 2013 2:08 PM
Kevin Durant finished his back tattoo on Tuesday and posted a photo on Instagram to show his fans. But Sarah Kogod of the Washington Post found one big problem: the word mature is spelled "mautre." Whoops. The script on Durant's back is James 1:2-4 f
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Justin Bieber Makes His Friends Sign A $5 Million Liability Waiver Before Entering His Home
13 hours ago - Business Insider - May 22, 2013 12:00 PM
If you're planning on partying with Justin Bieber in his Calabasas mansion, be prepared to first sign a Liability Waiver and Release, which, if violated, can get you sued for a whopping $5 million. That means if you tweet, Instagram or blog abou
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Jesse James Posts Utterly Disgusting Photo Of His Severed Finger
13 hours ago - Business Insider - May 22, 2013 11:15 AM
[Warning: graphic content!] If you're one of Jesse James's 109,462 Instagram followers, you're used to seeing pictures of the self-described "pope of welding" working in his West Coast Choppers shop, shooting guns and riding motorcycles. But the
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Instagram: Facebook’s Greatest Hedge
14 hours ago - Wall St Cheat Sheet - May 22, 2013 10:13 AM
A new report shows that teenagers are losing enthusiasm for Facebook, but the loss may be fully hedged by Instagram.
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Nominate The Most Creative People In Social Media Marketing
1 day ago - Business Insider - May 21, 2013 2:56 PM
Earlier this month we put out a call for the most creative people in social media marketing. Well, the deadline has been extended, so you now have until end of day Friday May 24 to let us know who is dominating Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine
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Mayer out to rewrite Yahoo’s history
2 days ago - FT - May 20, 2013 3:43 PM
Yahoo compared its Tumblr purchase to Facebook’s takeover of Instagram last year and Google’s YouTube deal in 2005
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Yahoo Jumping on the Startup Acquisition Bandwagon
3 days ago - Benzinga - May 20, 2013 10:40 AM
AOL Inc.(NYSE: AOL) has Huffington Post. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has YouTube. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has Instagram.
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Yahoo Shareholders Aren't Sold On $1.1B Tumblr Acquistion
3 days ago - Forbes - May 20, 2013 9:23 AM
Investors this morning gave a low-key response to Yahoo's $1.1 billion bid for Instagram, a six-year-old blogging startup that has yet to become profitable and only recently become serious about revenue.
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The Tumblr and Instagram Deals: A Tale of the Tape
3 days ago - NY Times - May 19, 2013 10:35 PM
How do the two biggest deals in the social media world in recent years, those for Tumblr and Instagram, stack up to each other? DealBook runs through the stats.
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Louisiana Bill Would Ban Drivers From Reading Tweets
6 days ago - WSJ Blogs - May 17, 2013 11:43 AM
In Louisiana, you're not allowed to text while driving, but nothing in the law says that a motorist can't tweet, check in with friends on Facebook, or post photos on Instagram. That may soon change.
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The First 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Poster Features Jennifer Lawrence
1 week ago - Business Insider - May 14, 2013 3:32 PM
Jennifer Lawrence is atop a mountain in the first poster for "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire." Lionsgate released the poster through the film's official Instagram account. The film, based on the series by Suzanne Collins, follows Katniss (Lawre
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Kobe Bryant Tweeted This Disgusting Photo Of His Ankle Surgery
1 week ago - Business Insider - May 14, 2013 2:25 PM
A month ago yesterday, Kobe Bryant had surgery on his torn Achilles tendon. Today, he put a photo of his surgery on Instagram and tweeted it out. It's graphic. The photo's caption reads: "One month ago yesterday #surgery #graphic #RealNoImage #mambam
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How Facebook's Acquisition Of Instagram Has Hurt Brands That Use Twitter (FB)
1 week ago - Business Insider - May 14, 2013 11:13 AM
After Facebook acquired Instagram in September, one of its first major policy changes was to drop support for photo-sharing on Twitter — ostensibly a rival to Instagram for photo-sharing. That had a pronounced effect, according to data from Sim
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Windows Phones Still Don't Have Good Apps, So Nokia Had To Make An Instagram Clone For Its New Lumia (NOK, MSFT)
1 week ago - Business Insider - May 14, 2013 9:27 AM
Nokia announced another variation of its top-tier Lumia line of smartphones today called the Lumia 925. Internally, the phone is nearly identical to two other phones in the company's Windows Phone lineup, the Lumia 920 and Lumia 928. However, since t
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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
1 week ago - Business Insider - May 14, 2013 7:02 AM
Good morning! Nokia came out with a new flagship phone, the 925. It's just like the 920, except its made out of aluminium. Instagram remains unavailable on Windows Phone, so Nokia is including an app from Hipstamatic called Oggl. Activist share
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How Instagram's Co-Founder Spent His Year After Facebook's $1 Billion Acquisition
2 weeks ago - Entrepreneur - May 11, 2013 2:00 PM
A look at Kevin Systrom's last 12 months -- by way of his Instagram photos.
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Student Was Suspended After Putting Principal's Mugshot On Instagram
2 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 10, 2013 9:24 AM
A Georgia teen has been suspended for putting his principal's mug shot on Instagram and telling his followers he thought she was busted for a DUI, wsbtv.com reports. Riverdale High School senior Keandre Varner got called to the principal's office aft
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How Instagram Co-Founder Kevin Systrom Spent His Year After The $1 Billion Facebook Acquisition
2 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 9, 2013 9:48 PM
On April 9, 2012, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger sold their 13-person startup, Instagram, to Facebook. Facebook purchased the photo filter app 18 months after its launch for $1 billion: $300 million in cash, the rest in Facebook stock. What has the y
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A Victoria's Secret Model Used Instagram To Brilliantly Deflect A Potential Drug Scandal
2 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 9, 2013 3:44 PM
A few days ago, the paparazzi photographed Victoria's Secret model Cara Delevingne dropping a bag of "mysterious white powder" outside her apartment. Pictures showed the model trying to cover the bag with her shoe and handbag and laughing. The
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Facebook’s next $1B acquisition may be the social driving app Waze
2 weeks ago - VentureBeat - May 9, 2013 9:12 AM
After spending $1 billion on Instagram last year to keep pace with the mobile photo explosion, Facebook is now reportedly jumping into entirely new territory by spending a similar amount on the popular social driving app Waze.
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America's Deadliest Infantry Division Shows Off Everyday Life On Instagram
2 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 8, 2013 9:01 PM
Boy was I amazed when I saw the Marine Corps' deadliest division had an instagram account. (We didn't have no instagram in the old Corps.) Even more surprising was that not all the photos were of training events. It's easy to miss the forest for the
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Once-Hot App Viddy Returns $18 Million To Investors And Prepares A Final Attempt To Turn Around
2 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 8, 2013 9:23 AM
Last summer, social video app Viddy was in a much different place. It was in a battle to be the "Instagram of Video" alongside competitor SocialCam, and its number of users surged higher every day. Viddy used that momentum to raise a $30 million Seri
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10 Tips For Making Really Great Vine Videos
2 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 6, 2013 9:37 PM
Vine, Twitter's new video-sharing app that launched this year, has quickly grown to be one of the most-downloaded apps on the iPhone. The app lets you take short video clips that play on a loop and share them in an Instagram-style news feed. Vi
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Kobe Bryant Flew A Chef In From Italy To Cook Dinner For His Wife's Birthday
2 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 6, 2013 8:34 PM
Today is Vanessa Bryant's birthday so Kobe went above and beyond and flew in a chef from Paper Moon, Vanessa's favorite restaurant in Milan, to cook dinner for her. Not a bad present! Here's a photo from Kobe's Instagram, the caption read: "Fabrizio
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This Is How Much Mark Zuckerberg Loves Game Of Thrones
2 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 6, 2013 6:24 PM
The whole world has been reliving the fairy-tale sale of tiny startup Instagram to Facebook last year for about $1 billion in cash and stock, thanks to Kara Swisher's in-depth article published in Vanity Fair. One of our favorite details involves ano
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peHUB Second Opinion 5.6
2 weeks ago - peHUB - May 6, 2013 4:57 PM
In Hong Kong, companies are stocking up on bankers to bolster their IPO chances. In Silicon Valley, snarky blogs make a comeback. And Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on what really happened when Facebook bought Instagram. And so much more!The post
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3 Things Vanity Fair's Instagram Story Missed
2 weeks ago - Inc - May 6, 2013 2:09 PM
Instagram's journey from launch to acquisition to continued growth is a Silicon Valley dream--and a well documented one, at that. Here's a few things you might not have realized.On the night of Instagram's launch, in December 2010, founder Kevin Syst
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What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram For $1 Billion
2 weeks ago - Huffington Post - May 6, 2013 11:36 AM
There’s no picture of the moment when everything changed for Kevin Systrom. But if there were, it would look something like this: A lanky, very...
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Jack Dorsey Was 'Heartbroken' When Instagram Sold To Facebook
2 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 6, 2013 11:34 AM
It's been a little over one year since Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. For one of Instagram's early investors, Jack Dorsey, the acquisition is still a painful memory. AllThingsD's Kara Swisher has written an in-depth art
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Before Co-Founding Instagram, Kevin Systrom Missed Out On Millions Multiple Times
2 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 6, 2013 10:34 AM
Kevin Systrom sold his startup, Instagram, to Facebook last year for $1 billion in cash and stock. Before the acquisition, Systrom missed out on millions multiple times. Systrom attended Stanford and interned at a company that would grow to be Twitte
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Instagram Has a New Tagging Feature It Believes Will Be Huge for Brands
3 weeks ago - Entrepreneur - May 5, 2013 10:00 AM
Here's how you can use 'Photos of You.'
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How A Startup With No Revenue Can Be Worth A Billion Dollars
3 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 3, 2013 10:44 AM
When Facebook snapped up Instagram for $1 billion last year, lots of people in the tech industry were baffled. Instagram had no revenue, but for some reason Facebook decided the company was worth spending a billion dollars on. Earlier this year
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Jayson DeMers: How to Use Pinterest in Your Online Marketing Initiative
3 weeks ago - Huffington Post - May 3, 2013 8:56 AM
There's a lot of talk about Pinterest and Instagram today, and for good reason. For many businesses, it's possible to develop a following on these image-based sites and drive high amounts of traffic to your site. It isn't as difficult
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Instagram Has A New Tagging Feature It Believes Will Be Huge For Brands
3 weeks ago - Business Insider - May 2, 2013 4:03 PM
Today Instagram introduced 'Photos of You,' a new way for users to tag people, businesses, and products in photos. The feature seems similar to "tagging" Facebook photos. And it presents a new opportunity for brands to engage users of the social netw
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Instagram Becomes More Like Papa Facebook With New Photo-Tagging Feature
3 weeks ago - The Consumerist - May 2, 2013 4:00 PM
The apple doesn’t fall from the tree in the Facebook family, it seems, although we’re honestly surprised it took this long: In a like father, like acquired property move, Instagram will now feature a photo-tagging function, so you can tag
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Instagram Deal Is Looking Better and Better
3 weeks ago - NY Times - May 2, 2013 12:38 PM
The acquisition of Instagram by Facebook a year ago was risky. And Instagram is still not profitable. But the potential payout is increasing, the author contends.
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Jessica Prois: Living On $1.50 A Day Feels Impossible...And It Should
3 weeks ago - Huffington Post - Apr 30, 2013 10:48 AM
We're not inclined to upload photos of artisan sandwiches to Instagram, but this week we're going all out for good reason. Except there'll be no...
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Incredible Instagram Selfie Shows How Close A Reporter Came To Being Slammed In The Head With A Baseball
3 weeks ago - Business Insider - Apr 29, 2013 9:47 AM
Tampa Bay Rays sideline reporter Kelly Nash is from Massachusetts and decided before a recent game to take some photos of herself on top of the Green Monster at Fenway Park. Unknown to her, one of the pictures was taken just as a batting practice hom
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Kim Garst: Business Networking With Social Media -- Add Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to Your Networking Tool Chest
4 weeks ago - Huffington Post - Apr 25, 2013 2:56 PM
Connecting and networking are easier than ever before. I'll go over a few of my favorites and how they can help you to expand your network and connect with new people.
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Restaurant Learns Instagram Isn’t Intended For Hurling Racial Slurs At Bad Tippers
4 weeks ago - The Consumerist - Apr 25, 2013 10:15 AM
Someone at a restaurant in Delaware missed the class where they explain that the usual place to vent racially biased frustration at a customer is on the receipt, as the eatery is now having to do a lot of apologizing for things that showed up on its
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Even Now, Facebook Resembles MySpace
4 weeks ago - The Motley Fool - Apr 25, 2013 1:01 AM
Anonymous beauty pageants on Instagram create a troubling trend.
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Social Commerce Startup Chirpify Raises $2 Million
4 weeks ago - AllThingsD - Apr 24, 2013 3:01 AM
Chirpify, the Portland, Oregon-based startup that allows users of social networks like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook pay for items inside a particular stream, has secured an additional $2 million in venture funding from Voyager Capital. This, along
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If You Want To Be Happy, Stop Comparing Yourself To Others
1 month ago - Business Insider - Apr 21, 2013 6:28 PM
Our culture has made it increasingly easy for us to compare ourselves to others — through Facebook, Instagram, and hundreds of other technology platforms. But constant comparison only makes us feel like failures: No matter what, there will
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Infographic Explains Why Teens Are Leaving Facebook for Other Social Networks
1 month ago - Benzinga - Apr 19, 2013 1:06 PM
As early as May 2012, The Los Angeles Times was sounding Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) death knell among some teens, who were turning their attention to outlets like Tumblr, the Facebook-owned Instagram and mobile messaging apps like Kik and WhatsApp.Stock
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Chechen Leader Says Bombing Suspects Have No Link To Chechnya
1 month ago - Business Insider - Apr 19, 2013 11:37 AM
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has taken to Instagram to distance Chechnya from the Boston bombers (both reported to be from the country) — instead pointing the finger at the U.S. Here's the comment as translated by Google: The tragic events to
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Justin Bieber Posts Cartoon Of Himself In Bed With A Fan — Here's Today's Buzz
1 month ago - Business Insider - Apr 17, 2013 10:07 AM
Following controversial remarks he made about Anne Frank being a "belieber," Justin Bieber posted to Instagram a drawing of a cartoon version of himself in bed with one of his Beliebers. He did not add any commentary or caption, but
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Wayne Gretzky's Scantily-Clad Daughter Is The Talk Of The Masters
1 month ago - Business Insider - Apr 11, 2013 3:24 PM
Wayne Gretzky's 24-year-old daughter Paulina has been dating golfer Dustin Johnson for several months now and she is at the Masters Tournament supporting him. Paulina is often featured around the sports blogs for her risque, semi-NSFW Instagram feed.
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How Instagram Could Start Making Money Today
1 month ago - CNBC - Apr 10, 2013 11:52 AM
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Backstreet Boy Posts Before-And-After Hair Transplant Photo
1 month ago - Business Insider - Apr 8, 2013 4:01 PM
Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean was a teen heartthrob back in his boy band heyday. So now that the Backstreet Boys are going back on tour later this month, the 35-year-old musician wants to look his best. McLean posted a photo to his Instagram account sho
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Instagram Hit With Bug, Company Goes Silent
1 month ago - CNBC - Apr 8, 2013 3:51 PM
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