From acquiring WhatsApp, to now announcing the acquisition of Oculus VR, things are moving at a frantic pace in 2014 at the headquarters of the social networking giant, Facebook, in Menlo Park.
Amongst the latest developments is the growth of Instagram, and slight changes to the service. Bought by Facebook a year ago for a cool $1 billion, Instagram announced it recently crossed 200 million users. In addition, it has started testing integration with Facebook Places for location tagging in addition to Foursquare.
Making the user base announcement on the Instagram blog on Tuesday, the company said, 'Today we're excited to share that the Instagram community has grown to more than 200 million Instagrammers.'
The blog goes on to mention that till date in excess of 20 billion photos have been shared on Instagram and that there has been a growth of 50 million users in the last six months.
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