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Facebook graveyard: Was Instagram acquired to shut It down?
April 11, 2012

When Mark Zuckerberg's social network acquired the photo app Instagram this week, there was instant speculation about whether the popular photo-sharing service, for which Facebook laid out a cool $1 billion, will survive. Those fears aren't unfounded: in 2010, Zuckerberg told a crowd of aspiring startup owners, "We have not once bought a company for the company. We buy companies to get excellent people.' 

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