Analysis of Facebook’s Acquisition of Instagram In a world where we have over 200 major active social networking websites (excluding dating forums) its makes perfect sense why so many are doing any and everything they can to maintain‚ and increase‚ their share of the market. It also makes perfect sense why Facebook recently paid double the market value for its acquisition of Instagram‚ an upstart photo-sharing social network. In April Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 Billion stunning the business
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INSTAGRAM: How will Facebook manage its acquisition? CORPORATE STRATEGY 4G12 BARIL Xavier FIERE Benjamin IMBODEN Thomas JAYARATNE Mellane ZAJAC Damien 1 INTRODUCTION the 9 of April 2012‚ FACEBOOK bought the application INSTAGRAM for 1 billion dollars. FACEBOOK Social network on the Internet Available in 70 languages 900 million active users 2011: a billion dollar profit INSTAGRAM Share your life with photos Created on October 2010 40 million users on April 2012 2 PLAN
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M&A deals is “Facebook acquiring Instagram”. This acquisition is a critical move of Facebook due to the 2 main reasons: the deal size of $1 bn that Facebook spent for a startup app developer‚ of which $300 mn in cash and the remainder in Facebook Class B stock after the IPO and the financial effect the deal created just before Facebook IPO. At the time of the acquisition‚ Facebook was a network of a billion users yet still struggling with monetizing. On the other hand‚ Instagram‚ a photo sharing
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interaction with each other. One example of this social media is Instagram‚ and online photo sharing service that allows people to show their lives through a series of pictures on a mobile device and adding text to explain what was happening. In the future‚ people will think citizens in 2014 are narcissistic because their extensive use of Instagram. People put too much value in uploading images‚ videos‚ and text Instagram. Noorin Ladhani Staceys facts about Instagram there is "over one billion photos uploaded
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#Me: Instagram Narcissism And The Scourge Of The Selfie As a group‚ Instagrammers are a pretty self-absorbed bunch. Those of us who use Instagram everyday like to think of it in glowing terms. Not only is it a rapidly-growing social media success story‚ but it’s a place where we can go to see gorgeous‚ often creatively composed imagery. Our friends are there‚ documenting their world for us and reliably tapping the Like button every time we share our own photos. It’s awesome. That is‚ until you
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Introduction to entrepreneurship Midterm assignment Kevin Systrom‚ founder and CEO of Instagram Introduction Kevin Systrom is an American entrepreneur most known as CEO and founder of Instagram‚ the most popular worldwide sharing application. This program has 85 million users and 4 billion photos were shared. So what makes it so special? It is a combination of passion for photography and weal to make it easy and available for everyone by just using your mobile. Kevin says “It’s one thing
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Product/Service/Technology Instagram is a program that designed for social networking and photo sharing‚ which was launched in 10th 2010. Till April 2012‚ there were over 30 million registered users on instagram (Galle‚ 2012). In early 2012‚ Facebook bought instagram for one billion dollars‚ which has made Instagram a hot topic. What’s more‚ famous B2C brands such as Starbucks and MTV dominant on Instagram currently‚ and 25% of the brands are posting photos on instagram at least once every week (Galle
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AMA COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER COLLEGE Tagbilaran City‚ Bohol INSTAGRAM (Android Application) A term paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY by: Josie Marie Mosqueda Edralyn Tutor 2012 ABSTRACT Today the folks responsible for one of the most popular social photography apps in the world have brought that entertainment to Android– and here we’re going to review it! What you’ll find is that
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Abstract Instagram: Online Photo-Sharing‚ Video-Sharing and Social Networking Service allows for users to share photos and video with their friends family and people with common interests. Instagram is a mobile that is easy to use and requires just the use of your mobile device. Since 2010‚ Instagram has evolved into an app widely used by millions of people and now entering an area where they can become a profitable mobile app. Instagram: Online Photo-Sharing‚ Video-Sharing and Social Networking
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In this article‚ the new chief operation officer of Instagram‚ Ms. White speaks about their new marketing strategy. Instagram is a free Photo sharing social media service. But now Ms. White is planning to sell advertisements on Instagram while maintaining their focus on providing users with a clear design and a simple way to share photos. Additionally‚ Instagram also wants to avoid repeating its parent company‚ Facebook’s earlier missteps with advertisers. SWOT analysis can be done to determine
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