{"id":922800,"date":"2025-04-16T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=922800"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:48:44","slug":"instagrams-really-scary-rise-and-google-threat-when-mark-zuckerberg-warned-facebook-staff-in-an-internal-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/16\/instagrams-really-scary-rise-and-google-threat-when-mark-zuckerberg-warned-facebook-staff-in-an-internal-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram\u2019s \u2018really scary\u2019 rise and \u2018Google threat\u2019: When Mark Zuckerberg warned Facebook staff in an internal email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg sent an email to colleagues at Facebook in 2011 warning them about the meteoric rise of Instagram in the app\u2019s early days. The email, which emerged as a key piece of evidence in the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s (FTC) antitrust trial against Meta, revealed Zuckerberg&#8217;s apprehension about Instagram\u2019s rising threat to Facebook\u2019s dominance in the mobile photo-sharing market.The FTC argues that Meta\u2019s acquisition of Instagram, along with WhatsApp, was not a strategic business move but a calculated attempt to eliminate potential competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really need to get our act together quickly on this since Instagram\u2019s growing so fast,\u201d Zuckerberg wrote in an internal email that was shown to the court, as per The Verge. Meta acquired Instagram in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg sent an email to colleagues at Facebook in 2011 warning them about the meteoric rise of Instagram in the app\u2019s early days. The email, which emerged as a key piece of evidence in the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s (FTC) antitrust trial against Meta, revealed Zuckerberg&#8217;s apprehension about Instagram\u2019s rising threat to Facebook\u2019s dominance in the mobile photo-sharing market.The FTC argues that Meta\u2019s acquisition of Instagram, along with WhatsApp, was not a strategic business move but a calculated attempt to eliminate potential competition. \u201cWe really need to get our act together quickly on this since Instagram\u2019s growing so fast,\u201d Zuckerberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}