写真投稿数ではトップのFacebookがナンバー3のInstagramを買収ということです。
買収金額は10億ドル
How’s this for some big news on an otherwise slow Monday? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has let slip that his company plans to buy popular photo-sharing app Instagram (pending all of the standard regulatory approvals, naturally). According to a report from All Things D’s Kara Swisher, Facebook will pick up the social app, which got its own long-awaited Android version, for a cool $1 billion in cash and shares. Ole Zuck confirmed the news on his personal blog, adding that the deal won’t affect Instagram’s integration with competing social networks:
Popular social networking site Facebook just hit the corporate ‘like’ button on Instagram in a big way, agreeing to buy the photo sharing app-maker for a whopping one billion dollars. The purchase is said to be Facebook’s largest purchase to date, and comes hot on the heels of Instagram’s debut on Google’s Android platform last week. The photo app already claims an impressive 30 million users on Apple’s iOS platform.
Via : Facebook adds Instagram purchase to timeline – Imaging Resource
何と800億円というFacebookにしてもこれまで最大の買収規模。
但し、買収後もInstagramaとFacebookは独立したサービスを継続。
Instagramは他のSNSとの接続サービスは継続するそうです。
ちなみに、Facebookと第二位のFlickrではこんな大きな差。面積比ですから圧倒的。
