Emily Tan
Apr 12, 2012

Facebook increases its appeal to advertisers with Instagram acquisition

The tech world has been abuzz with Facebook’s US$1 billion acquisition of social network photo-sharing mobile app Instagram. Beyond speculation on the added-value Instagram brings to Facebook’s pending IPO, a study by Experian Hitwise shows that, on average, Instagram’s 30 million users are younger than those on Facebook.

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