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Snap has been racing ahead to build for a post-mobile world. And it's a world...
Snap has been building toward a post-smartphone world to create a cohesive AR ecosystem and its own version of alternative reality."We've been taking a step-by-step approach to how we think of the...
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Snap's AR gamble, Verizon Media pitches advertisers, and 5G confusion
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Research analyst predicts Snapchat's user base in the US will decrease in...
Snapchat has struggled to keep its users on the platform after a heavily criticized redesign in 2017.eMarketer, a marketing research firm, is predicting that Snapchat's user base in the US will shrink...
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Snap could run out of cash in 3 years because it is burning through $68...
Snap has burned through an average of $68 million a month since going public in 2017 and could, in theory, run out of cash in three years unless it turns a profit.The company has faced a difficult...
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There's now a version of the Bible that uses only Bitmoji, and it's arrived...
The Christian and Jewish bibles may be two of the world's most popular books, but what if they were told through emoticons? That's exactly what two men did with the Bitmoji Bible— a handful of stories...
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Snap's New Guard: Meet the 25 new power players who help CEO Evan Spiegel run...
Snap has weathered a revolving door of executives in the past two years.A new guard has now been put in place.From Chief Business Officer Jeremi Gorman, to Chief Strategy Officer Jared Grusd, below is...
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Snap beat Wall Street's expectations for Q1 2019, but its user growth is...
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat exceeded Wall Street expectations with its first-quarter results.The company saw $320 million in revenue for the quarter.Snap had 190 million daily active...
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Snap's stronger-than-expected Q1 shows how it's revved up a critical part of...
Snap impressed Wall Street with its first-quarter earnings, bringing in $320 million of revenue as opposed to consensus estimates of $307.4 million.The ad-sales-intelligence platform MediaRadar tracked...
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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has sold Wall Street his rose colored glasses, but when...
Snap investors initially cheered after it reported its quarterly results Tuesday.The reaction was an indication of just how desperate many seem for some semblance of good news from the company.Setting...
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A feature Facebook stole directly from Snapchat now has more than twice as...
Facebook Stories has accrued over 500 million daily active users, COO Sheryl Sandberg revealed during the company's earnings call on Wednesday.Facebook launched Stories, which many viewed as a copy of...
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Snap added 4 million subscribers versus Q4 (SNAP)
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THE STORIES REPORT: How brands can take advantage of the viral growth of the...
This is a preview of The Stories Report from Business Insider Intelligence.14-Day Risk Free Trial: Get full access to this and all Digital Media industry research reports.Stories are on track to become...
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Slack just filed to go public, but experts worry that Microsoft will do to it...
Slack filed to go public on Friday, and in its paperwork, it named Microsoft as its biggest competitor.Analysts are concerned about Slack's chances to succeed in that fight because more large companies...
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This tech CEO secretly sold his startup to Snap and spent 2 years building a...
Snap has launched a major social gaming push for Snapchat, as it looks to boost use of its app.Snap Games are casual social games that run inside the Snapchat app.Will Eastcott is a British founder who...
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This CEO sold his startup to Snap and pins its success on avoiding this...
Will Eastcott is the CEO and cofounder of PlayCanvas, a game engine startup that quietly sold to Snap in 2017.PlayCanvas helps power Snapchat's new social games inside the app, one of its biggest...
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A Florida man says he was only joking when he took his baby son to a pawn...
A pawnshop owner in Sarasota, Florida called the police on Tuesday when a man came into his shop and asked to pawn his 7-month-old son.That man, 43-year-old Brian Slocum, said it was all part of a joke...
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A high school student in Missouri is being investigated after posting a...
Police in Springfield, Missouri, are investigating a Snapchat video posted by a student at Kickapoo High School. The video showed a boy calling black students a number of racist names, including the...
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People are loving the new gender-swapping Snapchat filter, and it's now being...
Snapchat recently released new augmented-reality lenses that let users add traditionally female or male features to their visual appearances.People have started using the eerily convincing lens to...
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4 Colorado teenagers are accused of killing an 18-year-old about to graduate...
Four Colorado teenagers are accused of killing 18-year-old Lloyd Chavez over $25 worth of vape juice.Following the shooting, the teens allegedly fled the scene.A family member described Chavez in a...
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How to install Snapchat and other iPhone-specific apps on an iPad
Snapchat is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world, but there is no version designed especially for the iPad.You can install the iPhone version of Snapchat (and other iPhone-specific apps)...
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