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Okay, it’s not like anybody was clamoring for more of that absurd dancing hot dog Snapchat added to its filter options. But this is the internet — don’t ask, and ye shall receive anyway. Somebody took it upon themselves to cash in on the hype and make a simple platform-hopping app game featuring the boogie […]
MTV is finally ready to debut its first Cribs episode for the new generation — and, yes, it’s broadcasting the show on Snapchat, just like it promised last year. The reimagined reality show will offer sneak peeks of celebrities’ houses on Snapchat’s Discover platform, where each episode will be live for 48 hours before vanishing. […]
Richard Drew/AP A widespread view on Wall Street this week was that Snap Inc fell short of revenue forecasts when it posted its first quarterly results as a public company, triggering a big selloff in its shares. In fact there were two distinct camps of forecasters, which suggests the earnings “miss” was a matter of […]
Snapchat’s newest update packs a bunch of cool new features into the app. Most noticeable is the option to make the photos and messages you send stay on-screen for a long time, instead of disappearing after ten seconds. There’s also a way to “loop” your video clips, as well as handy new editing tools like the […]
Cassidy Hopkins/INSIDER Instagram likes are great, hearts on Messages are fine, but the one metric by which many teens live and die is the snap streak. A Snapchat streak is when you send direct snaps back and forth with a friend for several consecutive days. The longer you go without breaking the chain of communication, […]
Hollis Johnson CEO Evan Spiegel is the public face of Snapchat parent company Snap Inc., but Bobby Murphy also wields considerable power as its cofounder and chief technology officer. Together, Murphy and Spiegel own the vast majority of Snap’s voting stock, giving them complete control over the company’s future. Now that Snap has gone public, Murphy has […]
Snap Inc. Snapchat has transformed itself from a sexting app founded by Stanford frat bros to a camera company on the verge of a $ 24 billion IPO. Its Wall Street debut on Thursday is already being hotly anticipated as the tech IPO of the year. Here’s what you need to know about the IPO as it […]
Lara O’Reilly/Business Insider It’s showtime for Snapchat. After five years of enchanting its teenage users, the mobile app-maker will put on a show for the Wall Street crowd on Thursday when it begins trading as a public company. Will parent company Snap’s stock have a big first-day pop, in the style of other big internet IPOs? […]
Snapchat has commenced a new countdown on the Spectacles website. Whereas a countdown in itself tends to be the company’s way of revealing where its Spectacles vending machine will land next, this particular timer is a little different — and it’s got people talking. The countdown can be accessed by selecting the “find a bot” […]
“Facebook has been trying to copy Snapchat for so long it has become a kind of running gag in tech circles,” Matthew Ingram wrote in a August 2016 article for Forbes. As far back as 2013, Facebook was trying to buy Snapchat, offering the social media competitor $ 3 billion at the time. When that […]
