{"id":7890,"date":"2012-04-09T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=7890"},"modified":"2012-04-09T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:46:36","slug":"facebook-to-acquire-instagram-would-ios-users-still-friend-android-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/04\/09\/facebook-to-acquire-instagram-would-ios-users-still-friend-android-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to acquire Instagram, would iOS users still friend Android users?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook announces the acquisition of Instagram for approximately $1 billion. From <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/Announcements\/Facebook-to-Acquire-Instagram-141.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Newsroom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MENLO PARK, CALIF.\u2014April 9, 2012\u2014Facebook announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Instagram, a fun, popular photo-sharing app for mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>The total consideration for San Francisco-based Instagram is approximately $1 billion in a combination of cash and shares of Facebook. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close later this quarter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would iOS users still friend Android user on Facebook? When Instagram for Android was released about a week ago <a href=\"http:\/\/phandroid.com\/2012\/04\/03\/iphone-users-are-disgusted-by-new-android-users-signing-up-for-instagram-humor\/\" target=\"_blank\">some elitist iOS users were not too happy about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook announces the acquisition of Instagram for approximately $1 billion. From Facebook Newsroom: MENLO PARK, CALIF.\u2014April 9, 2012\u2014Facebook announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Instagram, a fun, popular photo-sharing app for mobile devices. The total consideration for San Francisco-based Instagram is approximately $1 billion in a combination of cash and shares &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/04\/09\/facebook-to-acquire-instagram-would-ios-users-still-friend-android-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook to acquire Instagram, would iOS users still friend Android users?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[327,404,1076,1533,933,936],"class_list":["post-7890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-android","tag-apps","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-ios","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-23g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}