Thursday, 23 August 2012

US clears Facebook’s billion-dollar deal for Instagram

WASHINGTON: US regulators said on Wednesday they closed an investigation into Facebook’s billion-dollar deal to buy the startup behind photo-sharing smartphone application Instagram, taking no action.

The Federal Trade Commission said in a statement that Facebook’s bid to buy Instagram “may now proceed as proposed.”

In letters to both firms published on the FTC’s website, the agency said for the first time that it had opened a probe into potential violations of federal laws on

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