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2.4KRegulationUK Regulator: Stop Pushing Kids Into Apps
The U.K.’s tech regulator, the ICO, wants companies like Facebook and Snap to stop enticing kids to their websites and apps. According...
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3.2KLegalBlackBerry Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Twitter
BlackBerry, the once-maker of the BlackBerry mobile phone, has filed a lawsuit against Twitter contending the social media platform operator engaged in...
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3.3KeCommerceEx-Snap CSO Rivals Amazon With eCommerce Startup Verishop
A former Snap executive is planning to take on Amazon with the launch of a new eCommerce platform. Imran Khan, who spent...
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4.0KEarningsEarnings March On As GrubHub Stumbles, Snap Has Pep
The data deluge continues, and the earnings roundup this week has some positives — such as in Fiserv’s gains ahead of a...
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4.9KSizzle/FizzleSizzle/Fizzle: Snap Earnings Sizzle, Bitcoin Fizzles
Sizzle Snap: Shares snap upward, up by 21 percent, in the wake of earnings that soundly beat projections. Daily average user count...
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2.7KPersonnelTwo Snap Executives Leaving Over Inappropriate Behavior With A Contractor
Two senior executives recently left Snap, the maker of disappearing messaging app Snapchat, for allegedly conducting inappropriate relationships with a contractor that...
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2.5KPersonnelSnap’s CFO The Latest Executive To Leave
Snap, the struggling maker of the disappearing app Snapchat, saw its stock take a big hit after announcing its chief financial officer...
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3.5KInnovationSnap Launches Partner Program To Help Brands Create AR Lenses
Snap, the maker of the disappearing messaging app Snapchat, announced Monday (Nov. 19) a partner program aimed at making it easier for...
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3.9KIPOSnap Subpoenaed By DOJ, SEC Over IPO Disclosures
Snap, the maker of the disappearing SnapChat app, has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission....
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3.6KEarningsSnap Plans Product Tweaks As Q3 Disappoints Investors
More product improvements — and quick ones at that — seem to be in the mix for Snap as its daily active...
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2.7KEarningsSnap’s Cash Could Run Dry By Mid-2019
Snap, the maker of a disappearing messenger app, may have to raise capital by the middle of next year, according to MoffettNathanson....
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Snap Shares Fall Following CEO Evan Spiegel’s Memo
Following news that Snap Chief Executive Evan Spiegel unveiled new strategic goals and acknowledged shortcomings with a recent design of its app...
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Snap Launches eCommerce For Advertisers
Snapchat eCommerce is taking shape this week, with the company that operates the messaging app launching advertising products centered around online retail....
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2.4KInnovationVisual Search Gains More Popularity, And Not Just From Amazon
Every time a new visual search deal comes along — like the major one involving Amazon and Snap, one rumored but officially announced...
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3.5KAmazonAmazon, Snap Pair On Visual Commerce
Snap announced that it is testing out a new way to search for products on Amazon using the Snapchat camera. “It’s super...
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3.9KEarningsSnap Loses 3M Users, But Sees Rise In Users Ages 35+
The backlash to the Snapchat redesign continued to depress user figures in the second quarter of 2018. But Snap Inc. still beat...
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7.4KLegalSnap Shareholders Can Pursue Lawsuit
Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP), the maker of the disappearing messaging app Snapchat, saw a court ruling that gave investors the green light...
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2.5KAppleMobile Ads Reportedly Interest Apple
Can Apple do mobile ads? The world might soon find out, according to a report Friday (June 1) in The Wall Street...
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4.6KToday In DataRules Were Made To Be Broken, Or At Least Rewritten
There are some things that happened so predictably they became like laws. Transistor density on microchips doubled every year and a half,...
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4.4KRetailPropel CEO Sees App As Aid to Low-Income Consumers, Beyond The Grocer’s Aisles
An app designed to make life easier for food stamp recipients is expanding the commerce-related services it offers to low-income Americans, but...
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2.6KConsumer FinanceWall Street Investors Place Their Bets On Millennials
When it comes to stock market picks, Wall Street investors are placing their bets on the buying power of the millennial generation....
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5.8KRetailSnap Adding ‘Shop Now’ Button To AR Lenses
Snap, the maker of the Snapchat disappearing messaging app, is reportedly adding a “Shop Now” button to its app, enabling users to...
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Snap To Fire 100 Engineers In Its Latest Layoff Round
Snap, the parent company and creator of disappearing messaging app Snapchat, is laying off around 100 employees in order to focus on...
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3.2KPersonnelSnap Braces For Biggest Round Of Layoffs Yet
Just like the photos and videos shared on its social platform, Snap employees are about to disappear as the company braces for...
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Contrary To Kylie Jenner, Snapchat Is Doing Just Fine After Redesign
Wall Street doesn’t seem to care what Kylie Jenner thinks. Despite Jenner’s – and many users’ –criticism of its redesign, Snap shares...
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6.7KRetailNike Teams Up With Snapchat For In-App Air Jordan Presale
Marking the first time that a brand other than Snap has allowed consumers to purchase a product directly through Snapchat, Nike pre-released...
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4.3KToday In DataToday In Data: Workplace AI, Faster Payments’ Proliferation And Snap Shares Are Up
Today in PYMNTS data, finance professionals are using artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, payment speeds have varying impacts on different-sized businesses,...
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4.2KEarningsSnap Shares Soar As App Redesign Bears Fruit
And in a Snap, the Snap shares soared, snapping a losing streak that had brought forth the dreaded “busted IPO” sobriquet. Investors...
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5.5KRetailBlue Apron Tops The List For Worst Performing IPOs
Blue Apron was the worst-performing tech initial public offering (IPO) in 2017, according to Crunchbase’s ranking of tech IPOs. The meal kit company...
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25.2KInternationalGlobal IPOs Reach Record High In 2017
Global initial public offerings (IPOs) over the past year saw the highest number of listings since the financial crisis, driven by strong...
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3.4KNewsGiddy 2017 — But Be Mindful of 2018’s IPOs?
Stocks have had a high profile run for 2017, and some are expecting a new crop of IPOs to fare well in...
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Tencent Gives Snap A Capital Boost
Despite failing to meet growth projections and seeing a decrease in ad sales, Snapchat disclosed that Tencent has increased its stake in the...
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3.2KMobile ApplicationsSnap Slumps On Sales, User Misses
As it struggles to meet much-lowered projections for growth, Snapchat has decided to take the drastic measure of redesigning its app. According...
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4.2KFacebookMillennials Still Prefer Snapping Over Instagramming
A new report shows that Snapchat is the third-most popular app among 18- to 24-year-olds in the U.S., two spots ahead of...
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9.5KInnovationThe Great Online Innovation Pile On Of 2017
There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. Startups are piling onto Facebook,...
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4.5KRetailSnap Opens Pop-Up Shop In Harrods
Snap has opened its first pop-up shop, selling Spectacles inside the famous London department store Harrods. Tech Crunch reported that this is...
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1.9KIPOSnap Shares Break Below IPO Price
Shares of Snap, Inc. broke below their initial public offering (IPO) price, a milestone no company publicly traded likes to see. Reuters...
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SNAP Stocks Drop To IPO Price Of $17 After Lackluster Quarter
Fame is a fickle friend, and it seems that Snapchat may have reached the end of its run, if investor confidence is...
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3.6KRetailSnap Developing Augmented Reality Wearable Glasses
Following up on its venture into wearables last year, Snap has reportedly been working on a sequel to its video-enabled Spectacles glasses....
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10.1KNewsSnap And Innovation That Goes Old School
We’ve all heard the phrase “don’t reinvent the wheel” — a metaphor for not wasting time perfecting a perfectly good idea that’s stood...
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2.7KFinancial InclusionFresh EBT’s Social Safety Net Tech Upgrade
It’s a set of statistics that all of us have heard many times before: In the U.S., nearly half of the population...
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3.2KMobile ApplicationsFresh EBT Makes Food Stamps Digital
Propel, the startup that helps people who receive food stamps manage their benefits, announced Thursday (April 27) that it raised $4 million...
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Snap Pays $7.7M For Geofilters Patent From Mobli
Snap, the operator of the Snapchat messaging app, has spent $7.7 million to acquire a critical patent for geofilters. According to a...
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2.7KMobile ApplicationsSnapchat Unveils New Advertisers Dashboard
There’s no getting around having a social media platform without some form of advertising to help turn a profit. In its latest...
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Snap Unseals Lawsuit From Former Employee
Snap, the maker of a disappearing messaging app, has unsealed a lawsuit from a former employee who contended in a lawsuit in...
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3.3KInvestmentsRobinhood Close To Raising Cash That Gives It Valuation Of More Than $1B
Robinhood, the stock trading app, is close to closing a round of funding that could give it a valuation of more than...
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Snapchat To Lose $2B This Year?
Looks like losing billions of dollars is a snap. Literally. As Fortune Magazine reports, Snap, which went public last month and which...
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Wall Street Bullish on Snap — But For How Long?
They say bulls are herd animals. That may be true for bulls on Wall Street. Bloomberg News divulged that a spate of positive reports...
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8.0KSizzle/FizzleOne Honkin’, Highflying Goose – IPO
Think all IPOs are tech-driven, are based on social media and roar right out of the gate? If you nodded to only...
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3.1KFacebookFacebook Stories Now Available To Users In Chile, Greece And Vietnam
Facebook Stories, which allows users to post photos that disappear after 24 hours through the site’s mobile app, is now available to...
