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foursquareStarted with foursquare , Kevin Systrorm wanted to work with and design and iphoe app that would include foursquare and mafia wars a popular game developed by Zynga
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Instagram launched on october 6, 2009
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HTML5The development began in San Francisco when Systorm and Brazilian Krieger chose to focus their multi-featured HTML5 check-in project, Burbn, on mobile photography.
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Systrom closed a US$500,000 seed funding round with Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz while working on Burbn.
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Founded inInstagram was founded in 2010 By co-founder CEO Kevin Systrorm
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Instagram added hashtags to help users discover both photographs and each other. Instagram encourages users to make tags both specific and relevant, rather than tagging generic words like "photo," to make photographs stand out and to attract like-minded Instagram users.[
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Instagram was released for Android phones running the 2.2 Froyo version of the OS, and it was downloaded more than one million times in less than one day. That same week, Instagram raised US$50 million from venture capitalists for a share of the company; the process valued Instagram at US$500 million.[
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On April 12, 2012, Facebook acquired Instagram for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock.
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On December 17, 2012, Instagram updated its Terms of Service, granting itself the right—starting on January 16, 2013—to sell users' photos to third parties without notification or compensation.
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In January 2013, it was confirmed that Instagram has asked for photo identification as a form of verification due to unspecified violations.
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White stated in September 2013 that the company should be ready to begin selling advertising by September 2014 as a way to generate business from a popular entity that had not yet created profit for its parent company
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During the Nokia world event held at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Systrom confirmed the impending release of the official Instagram app for the Windows Phone
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the official Instagram Beta for Windows Phone was released to Windows Phone 8 to allow Windows Phone users faster access to Instagram services; although, at the time of release, the app was still under development.
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On December 12, 2013, Instagram added Direct, a feature that allows users to send photos to specific people directly from the app. Instagram's primary intention with the Direct feature is to compete against messaging services, including
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, Instagram released an updated Android app with performance improvements and a flatter interface. The update was primarily intended to reduce the app's file size and resource usage, and it was optimized for and tested on low-end smartphones
