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Noah Kalina, Wedding Photographer

I just took this photo. I’ll tell you about it later.

– Noah Kalina, referring to the iconic wedding photo he took of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan

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In Wake of Instagram Acquisition, Twitpic Launches iPhone App

Mike Isaac in Social on May 7 at 6:46 pm PT

Despite having been founded four years ago, Twitpic only launched its first free iPhone application on Monday, complete with basic photo editing tools and comments section. The app debuts as competition increasingly heats up in the mobile photo-sharing space, intensified by Facebook’s recent $1 billion acquisition of similar photo-sharing service Instagram.

High Five to AllThingsD.com — Happy Birthday to Us

Kara Swisher in Media on April 26 at 11:39 pm PT

No presents but your presence, dear readers.

Viral Video: Bubblicious, It’s the Ultimate Silicon Valley Bubble

Kara Swisher in Media on April 18 at 2:13 am PT

Pop, pop, pop …

L.A. Stories: Scarfing Up Big Media at Gobbler (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on April 11 at 12:31 pm PT

A hopped-up version of Dropbox’s media-in-the-cloud efforts for cool music folks.

FaceTagram? InstaBook? Whatever You Call It, All Your Mobile Photo Are Belong to Facebook (for $1 Billion)!

Kara Swisher in Media on April 9 at 12:20 pm PT

Actually, it’s pretty simple: Photos. Photos. And, oh yes, mobile photos — lots and lots and lots of them.

Clicking on a Fortune: Facebook to Acquire Photo-Sharing Start-Up Instagram for $1 Billion

Kara Swisher in News on April 9 at 10:03 am PT

A blockbuster exit for the popular and elegant mobile photo-sharing service.

L.A. Stories: HipSwap Tries to Take the Creepy out of Craigslist (Video)

Kara Swisher in Commerce on April 2 at 10:56 am PT

The mobile app-heavy service allows anyone with stuff, including boutique merchants with quirky stuff to move, to quickly snap photos of items, price them and then — presumably — sell.

Retrosift Scans Your Emails for Every (Cringeworthy) Photo You’ve Ever Sent

Lauren Goode in Product News on March 30 at 8:29 am PT

A new app that sifts through old photos. Yes, you really wore that.

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Camera Awesome Lowers Photo Effects Pricing, Shares with Instagram

Lauren Goode in News on March 27 at 12:57 pm PT

Camera Awesome, the photo app from SmugMug that boasts a whopping 297 photo effects and an impressive download rate of more than four million in four weeks, now works with popular photo-sharing app Instagram, allowing users to share their “awesomized” photos to Instagram’s mobile photo network. The company is now bundling all of Camera Awesome’s photo effects for a one-time purchase of $9.99, after previously charging 99 cents per bundle for 29 bundles of effects.