Facebook’s F8 plans include Camera Effects Platform, offline Instagram

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Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat as it copies its AR stickers

 “Move last and take things” seems to be Facebook’s new motto. Now the parent company’s top…

Crunch Report | RetailMeNot Acquired for $630 Million

Trade in that old dusty GoPro for credit toward a new one, Instagram combines ephemeral and…

Postepic is an app for elegantly sharing book quotes

 Postepic wants to liberate all those interesting text snippets you have languishing on your camera roll…

Instagram Head of Product Kevin Weil to talk shop at Disrupt NY

 Instagram is killing it. The photo-sharing behemoth has topped 600 million users, with the most recent…

Snapchat wins April Fools’ with its jab at Instagram

 We’ve got a whole roundup of 2017’s tech April Fools’ pranks, but this one from Snapchat…

Stories are the new News Feed

 If the camera is the new keyboard, then the future of social media will look more…

Crunch Report | Amazon Buys Souq

 Amazon buys Souq, the “Amazon of the Middle East,” Apple acquires Workflow, Instagram blurs sensitive photos…