INSIDE THE ROADSHOW: Snapchat just met with prospective investors in NYC and...
Snapchat executives in New York were peppered with questions on Tuesday about competition from Facebook, user growth for the disappearing-message app, and accessibility in less developed markets as...
View ArticleSnapchat has a huge problem with Android, and it's causing investors to worry
Snapchat executives faced tough questions from investors in New York on Tuesday. Most of all: why is user growth slowing?So far, Snap Inc. has been quick to blame the slowdown on shaky Android...
View ArticleYou can now post photo albums to Instagram (FB)
After years of only letting its users post one photo or video at a time, Instagram will finally allow the creation of albums.You can now post up to 10 photos or videos at once on Instagram, the...
View ArticleLondon tech banker: Snap's IPO looks like a 'very risky' investment
LONDON — A top London technology investment banker says the blockbuster stock market listing of the company behind the messaging app Snapchat looks like a "very risky" investment.Asked about Snap...
View ArticleA Californian school will reportedly make 'tens of millions' from Snapchat's...
A Californian school is going to be making big bucks when Snapchat parent company Snap goes public, thanks to a fortuitous early investment in the app.The Information's Alfred Lee and Tom Dotan report...
View ArticleSnap's IPO is oversubscribed by $7 billion
There is more than $10 billion of demand for Snap's hot IPO so far, according to people familiar with the situation who declined to be named because the information is private.Snap's public offering is...
View ArticleWhat the Snap IPO means for LA
There has been a lot of speculation around Snap’s imminent IPO, whether the stock price will soar or fall, if the lack of voting power for the issued shares will make a difference, whether someone will...
View ArticleSnapchat's earliest employees: Where are they now? (SNAP)
In the last five years, Snapchat has gone from a sexting app built in a Stanford dorm to a business that could soon be worth $22 billion on the public market.Who are the early employees who've helped...
View ArticleThe complete bearish case against investing in Snapchat's massive IPO
This story first appeared in Modern Trader and is republished here with permission.For what is likely be the largest IPO in years, the Snapchat filing has been swamped in secrecy.Snapchat founders Evan...
View ArticleSnap makes its Wall Street debut — in Twitter's annual report (SNAP, TWTR)
Snapchat's Wall Street debut is expected later this week when the company will have its highly-anticipated IPO.But Snapchat marked another Wall Street big premiere on Monday, with its first appearance...
View ArticleSnapchat's APAC prospects shrink
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Japanese messaging app Line has nearly doubled its stake in Korean...
View ArticleGoogle has an idea for a goofy hat with a camera on the brim that works like...
Google hasn't been very successful when it comes to "wearables," but that's not stopping the company's engineers from dreaming up creative ways to incorporate computing devices into various...
View ArticleSnap's IPO will price today after the US stock market closes (SNAP)
(Reuters) - Snap Inc, owner of popular messaging app Snapchat, will price its initial public offering after the U.S. stock market closes on Wednesday in the most eagerly awaited technology IPO since...
View ArticleSnapchat's parent company Snap worked on a drone camera that could take...
Snapchat's owner Snap Inc has worked on a drone that could help users take overhead videos and photographs and then feed that visual data to the company, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.It was...
View ArticleSnap is going public at a $24 billion valuation
Snapchat's parent company, Snap Inc., just raised $3.4 billion in the tech industry's largest initial public offering in over two years.Snap sold 200 million shares at $17 apiece, valuing the company...
View ArticleTech IPOs have brought plenty of booms and busts in recent years
Snap Inc., the company behind popular messaging app Snapchat, priced its hotly-anticipated initial public offering at $17 a share on Wednesday, giving it a valuation of around $24 billion.Naturally,...
View ArticleSnapchat's IPO is ready for takeoff, and there's enough fuel for it to soar...
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....
View ArticleHow Imran Khan swapped Wall Street for a huge role at Snapchat and earned...
When Snapchat's parent company, Snap Inc., begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, its sale will prove a windfall for a handful of executives who helped grow the company from a tiny...
View ArticleSnap teases future as camera company (SNAP)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Two stories about Snap’s camera hardware projects emerged yesterday in...
View ArticleSnapchat's twenty-something founders are each worth ~$4 billion — more than...
Few say no to Mark Zuckerberg, especially when he's offering you $3 billion. In the case of Snapchat founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, it turned out to be a prescient move.Snapchat's parent...
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