Just recently, Facebook also acquired mobile stalwart Instagram and the Lightbox team, for example.

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Index will be sharing offices with Moo, Groupspace, Lightbox, Soundcloud, SparkPR and Tweetdeck.

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Next month, the site will launch Houzz Lightbox, which automatically starts a slide-show mode for scrolling through photos faster.

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Beyond Path, Instagram and now Hipster, photo-sharing apps Huddle, Lightbox, Mobli, PicPlz and Pixable all compete for space on our smartphone screens.

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The Lightbox museum and gallery will be open as normal during construction but diversions will be in place for pedestrians and cyclists until early 2013.

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