When Instagram was acquired for $1 billion in 2012, co-founder Kevin Systrom believed that joining Facebook would help ...

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testified that Mark Zuckerberg saw Instagram as a ... had the potential to thrive independently and did not require Meta’s infrastructure or resources to ...

A Meta spokesman didn’t make Zuckerberg available for comment and did not address the assessments of his feelings toward Instagram. Buying Instagram was one of the smartest moves Mark Zuckerberg ...

The first week of the Meta antitrust trial brought new revelations about how the company formerly known as Facebook approached the competitive threat posed by Instagram in the early 2010s.

Mark Zuckerberg’s ... which wants to force Meta to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp, has argued that Zuckerberg’s emails are proof of the company’s use of a “buy or bury” strategy to ...

According to Systrom, Zuckerberg may have been directly involved in yanking resources after integrating Instagram and Facebook because "as the founder of Facebook, he felt a lot of emotion around ...

Internal emails revealed during Meta's antitrust trial show Mark Zuckerberg's deep ... strategies to slow Instagram's development post-acquisition, aiming to buy time against emerging rivals ...

CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended ... isn’t beating WhatsApp, Instagram was growing so much faster than us that we had to buy them for $1 billion,” he wrote in the email. “That’s not exactly killing it.” ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ... email, Zuckerberg told Facebook’s then-CFO, David Ebersman, that a purchase of Instagram and other startups could be looked at as a way for Facebook to buy time.

Mark Zuckerberg ... rival services like Instagram prior to its acquisition in 2012 and the doomed Google+ social network. The FTC has argued that Zuckerberg used a “buy or bury” strategy ...

Facebook's strategy to either buy or bury its competition ... big push is going to be in photo sharing." — Mark Zuckerberg, February 2011 "If Instagram continues to kick ass on mobile, or ...

Buying Instagram was one of the smartest moves Mark Zuckerberg ever made ... A Meta spokesman didn't make Zuckerberg available for comment and did not address the assessments of his feelings ...