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• Popular mobile photo-sharing service Instagram is still down this morning after violent storms in Virginia knocked out the cloud computing services that run it.
(Mashable)
• Instagram users were out of luck for large chunks of Saturday as severe heat and violent storms across the the eastern U.S. caused sever outages that had the site down for hours.
(The Inquisitr)
• Digital cloud services arent immune to the impact of real clouds, and that meant some bad news this weekend for the folks at Amazon and sites that rely in its web services.
(PC World)
• An outage of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia has taken down Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and other services.
(Venturebeat.com)
• A massive thunderstorm near the nations capital Friday night knocked Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest offline for a few hours.
(Chicago Tribune)
• Its always fun to look at vibrant images of faraway destinations – a sun ray hitting the perfect piece of sand on a beach, an indigenous woman selling fruit at a weekend market or a mountain glowing 10 different shades.
(GADLING)
• Facebook updated its Messenger and Pages mobile apps, and Instagram also gave its mobile app an update, making it more compatible with Facebook.
(Los Angeles Times)
• The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to investigate Facebooks $1bn bid for Instagram, because it is concerned the giant social network might choke off picture uploads to other sites from the app, or else restrict other apps ability to upload to it.
(The Guardian)
• Oh yes, the social media food humor is rolling in — eat it up, people.
(TechCrunch)