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Breaking: Facebook buys Instagram for about $1 Billion. Facebook has acquired Instagram for nearly one billion dollars, the company announced this morning in a blog post. The deal is a combination of cash and stock. With this sale, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, cofounders of Instagram are the newest mega-millionaires in Silicon Valley. The duo could see their net worth jump even higher depending on the Facebook’s public offering. The deal is also a big win for Benchmark Capital and Matt Cohler who lead the investment in the company. Cohler, previously worked for Facebook. The company has raised money from well-known entrepreneurs including Digg founder Kevin Rose, former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey. Facebook's Menlo Park HQ From some, the deal is both worrisome in the sense that Facebook now owns yet another social network, but may also offer hints as to how the company plans to address worries about its mobile business ahead of its planned initial public offering.

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