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Instagram Clone: Facebook Launches Mobile Photo App for iPhone

With all the negative news swirling regarding Facebook's IPO and their inability to monetize mobile, the multi-millionaire Facebook developers have kept on working.

Today Facebook launched Camera, a new iOS app that enhances the Facebook photos mobile experience. With Camera, users can now view just photos from their friends in one feed, share multiple photos at once, and customize pictures with captions and filters before posting.

Considering Facebook's recent billion dollar purchase of Instagram, today's launch may come as a surprise.

Camera is an independent photo application with a few features extremely similar to what users of Instagram are already used to using. However with Camera users will not be able to share within the app only (as Instagram can do) or to other social networks all at once.

Camera is all about Facebook.

Camera will be available for the iPhone starting today and can be downloaded for free from the App Store.

What Does it Take for an App to Get on Apple's Top 25 List?

A lot of iPhone and iPad users never bother to venture beyond Apple's top 25 lists for apps. That's why it's so important to developers that they crack this list, even just temporarily, if they want to make it big.

But getting there requires some success to have already been established. The question of just how much, though, has never been perfectly clear.

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Samsung's First Canadian Retail Store to Open in Vancouver This Summer

Samsung has commenced construction on the first Samsung branded store in Burnaby, just outside of Vancouver. 

Located in the Metropolis at Metrotown, Metro Vancouver's biggest shopping mall, the Samsung store is designed to help Canadians "pursue their passions with an exciting new way to experience and interact with Samsung’s line up of mobile, personal computing, and consumer electronics products in a standalone retail location," according to the company.

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Best Buy Canada Releases Free Android and iOS Apps

Best Buy Canada has released an Android app.

The free mobile app, which works on Android OS 2.2 and newer, adds to the retailer's roster of app offerings, which includes a similar iOS app for Apple's iPhone and iPad lineup.

The app features instant alerts when favourite items go on sale, access to additional online product information through the QR code scanner, favourites lists, and social media sharing.

Other features include the ability to review products in-app, locate stores, and schedule in-store pickups.

Best Buy's mobile apps can be downloaded here.