Facebook imitates Snapchat
All Facebook’s apps and acquisitions now have Stories feature
Today Facebook completed the launch of a feature named Stories that allows people to share videos and photographs at the top of their newsfeeds for 24 hours. After this period, Stories will disappear.
10-year old for finds Instagram flaw, Facebook pays him $10,000
By typing in malicious code, high-level bug erases comments
On Wednesday, social media giant Facebook took a humble bow to a 10-year old Finnish lad’s code-altering skills and paid him $10,000 for discovering a high-risk flaw in its Instagram API. The bug allowed any Instagram commenter to type malicious code into the comment section of any status update and effectively delete anyone’s comments from a post.
Instagram now supports two-factor authentication
Helps users mitigate identity hijacking
Social media giant Instagram has recently begun rolling out two-factor authentication to some of its users in an effort to spare any attempts at hijacking and changing account passwords, according to recent reports. The Facebook-owned service is the latest to add additional security measures to protect its users from financial losses, identity hijacking and false representation.
Instagram asks court to leave it alone
We are nice really
Instagram tried to sell itself for half price
Facebook’s billion better than Twitter’s offer
Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 billion
Shareholders to receive over $780 million in total
Instagram for Google Android now available
Over 30 million users strong and counting