Snap Inc. officially files for IPO
Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc. has officially filed for its initial public offering Thursday, giving a rare insight into what makes the ephemeral messaging service tick. Although Snap did not lay...
View ArticleSnap Inc. quietly created a foundation to support arts and education
We've known for a while that Snap Inc. confidentially filed for an IPO, but the official paperwork (also known as the S-1) is out and full of juicy new details. In addition to insight on how many...
View ArticleNature documentary ‘Planet Earth II’ is coming to Snapchat
Planet Earth II was probably the BBC's best piece of TV programming last year. The documentary series captured and, more importantly, explained the natural world with nuanced narration and breathtaking...
View ArticleWhat Snap’s IPO tells us about Spectacles’ future
When Snap Inc officially filed its IPO last week, we finally got our clearest look yet at its operations. In addition to learning that its co-founders will be donating up to 13,000,000 shares of their...
View ArticleSnapchat is getting a reality TV show from A+E
The running theme for Snapchat this year? It wants to be seen as more than an ephemeral messaging service. One way it can accomplish that is by bringing on more original content, like with its...
View ArticleSnapchat’s Spectacles can now be bought online
Snapchat's video and photo-capturing spectacles are no longer restricted to those who can hunt down its colorful vending machines. From today, you can also buy them online. Or rather, you can if you...
View ArticleNYT: Snapchat built its own drone
Snapchat's second or third reinvention was to describe itself as a “camera company,” but really it wants to become a hardware maker. At least, that's the theory coming out of the New York Times, which...
View ArticleMedium’s Series feature looks a lot like Snapchat Stories
Snapchat is the muse of virtually every app right now. Everybody from Instagram to Tinder is borrowing ideas from the platform, and now it's Medium's turn. Today, the self-publishing site is...
View ArticleSnapchat accused of squeezing a gun safety group for money
A series of leaked emails reportedly suggest that Snapchat may have behaved questionably when dealing with a gun safety charity. Mic claims to have seen messages between the startup and the non-profit...
View ArticleSnapchat’s cavalier attitude draws the eye of Wall Street watchdogs
Snapchat's parent company has finally filed for its IPO, and Wall Street has questions. Beyond what Reuters reports is the “richest” initial public offering since Facebook, is news that an investor...
View ArticleNBC invested $500 million in Snap’s IPO
Yesterday, Snap Inc. (parent company of Snapchat) finally went public — and despite some controversy, it had a pretty good first day on the stock exchange. As it turns out, that's due in part to a...
View ArticleSnapchat ‘celebrates’ women with more insensitive filters
Snapchat has a really hard time celebrating without coming off as offensive. Last 4/20, the app introduced a Bob Marley filter that prompted accusations of racial insensitivity. A few months later, it...
View ArticleSnapchat’s politics show is coming back for a second season
Snapchat will stream a second season of Good Luck America, a political show that aims to “help Snapchatters make sense of a weird time in America,” the social network told Variety. It's once again...
View ArticleFacebook apes Snapchat Stories again for Messenger
Facebook has copied Snapchat's Stories feature not just once, twice, or thrice, but four times now its latest app. Messenger Day has launched worldwide today after a limited test. Much like other...
View ArticleFacebook’s Snapchat-like Stories are now available worldwide
Facebook's quest to clone Snapchat features wherever possible just took its next logical step. Just a couple of months after it started testing Stories in the main Facebook app, the social network has...
View ArticleMGM courts millennials with new shows on Snapchat
Snap and MGM Television have inked a deal to produce original short-form shows for the social network, MGM Studios announced today. This is Snap's first major content deal with an entertainment studio,...
View ArticleSnapchat is proving its street cred with TV advertisers
Snapchat desperately wants to carve out a piece of the $70 billion in brand spending that… Snapchat is proving its street cred with TV advertisers
View ArticleSnapchat adds another feature Facebook will copy
Snapchat is in a tough spot right now and we're not just talking about all of those insensitive filters. Users love Stories, but because of that, everybody from Medium to Bumble to Facebook is adding...
View ArticleSnapchat adds augmented reality emoji to your videos
Snapchat has offered a variety of silly, weird (and sometimes racist) filters for a while now. Today, though, Snap is rolling out a few new “world lenses” that have a new trick. You can now place a...
View ArticleSnap buys key patent to secure the future of its geofilters
Mobli, an Israeli company, patented the idea of adding filters to photos based on your location back in 2012, way before Snap started using them. Now TechCrunch says the ephemeral messaging app has...
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