- Instagram continues to abandon mobile-only approach, further expands to desktop web Instagram is continuing to abandon its mobile-only approach as the company's co-founder, Kevin Systrom, today announced that, for the first time, users' feeds can be viewed on the desktop web.
- 500px takes on Flickr and Instagram with 'Awesome' offer In the wake of Instagram's terms of service fallout and Flickr's three free months offer of Flickr Pro, 500px has followed suit with a great offer of its own.
- Twitter wants to introduce Instagram-like photo filters Twitter is planning to introduce Instagram-like photo filters to its suite of mobile apps in the "coming months" that will allow users, and more importantly brands, tweet stylised images directly to the service and bypass Instagram.
- Facebook introduces Camera, a standalone photo sharing app Facebook is increasingly being used solely as a photo sharing service by a lot of its users and today Facebook has somewhat proved this to be true by releasing a standalone photo sharing app known as Camera.
- Instagram's zero to $1 billion valuation within 19 months [Infographic] Instagram has always been a stand-out app ever since it first launched on the iPhone in October 2010. Some 19 months later, however, who'd have thought it would be acquired by Facebook for $1 billion?
- Instagram arriving on Android "very soon" Instagram, the hugely popular photo-sharing and filtering app, currently only available on iOS, is arriving on Android "very soon", having passed 27 million registered users in recent days.
- Instagram hits 150 million uploads in less than one year Instagram, the hugely popular iPhone photo app, has recorded 150 million photo uploads since it launched last October. Out of those 150 million photos uploaded, 120 million have had filters applied.
- Twitter to launch its own photo-sharing service Twitter will launch its own photo-sharing service later this week if reports from All Things Digital are true. It's understood that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will announce the service at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California tomorrow.