Snapchat

Snapchat busted out an update to its app today just before the holidays. The new version of the ephemeral messaging app includes several color filters, a new ‘special text’ font and a few other additions. The main update is the ‘visual filters’ that will add juiced up color effects to your images. If you’re stumped Continue Reading →

Roughly 70% of Snapchat users are women, the chief executive of the messaging app said at a closed-door Goldman Sachs conference Wednesday. Co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel said Snapchat users are sending 400 million “snaps” a day on the service, where messages disappear after a few seconds, according to a person who was present at Continue Reading →

It looks like gossip is traveling at Hyperloop speed over Snapchat’s hubris in turning down $3 billion in cash from Facebook. Om Malik just tweeted the latest: After Facebook, “Google offered $4B but @evanspiegel said no! Nice way to drive up valuation.” Valleywag heard the same. When it’s just paper billions, it’s fun to shout Continue Reading →

You may have heard by now — Snapchat is worth a lot of money to a lot of important people. If the app doesn’t end up selling to Facebook for billions (and, for now, it looks like it won’t), the company looks to soon raise hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital. So, why, Continue Reading →

Snapchat, a rapidly growing messaging service, recently spurned an all-cash acquisition offer from Facebook for $3 billion or more, according to people briefed on the matter. The offer, and rebuff, came as Snapchat is being wooed by other investors and potential acquirers. Chinese e-commerce giant Tencent had offered to lead an investment that would value Continue Reading →

Facebook may be feeling the pinch from teen-focused, mobile-first social networks like Snapchat, as CFO David Ebersman said on Wednesday’s earnings call that Facebook “did see a decrease in daily users specifically among younger teens,” though he prefaced that saying “usage of Facebook among US teens overall was stable from Q2 to Q3.” This is Continue Reading →

Facebook recently changed its privacy policy to let users under 18 share their posts publicly for the first time. In the past, the most public their posts could be was to “Friends of Friends.” Teens will have to opt into public sharing, and when posting publicly for the first time, they’ll see a dialogue windows Continue Reading →

Snapchat is on Monday looking to clarify exactly how and when law enforcement agencies can access your “self-destructing” messages. According to a new blog post from Micah Schaffer, who handles matters pertaining to trust and safety at the company, Snapchat can only retrieve snaps that are unopened. Once a message has been viewed by its Continue Reading →

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel’s hands are shaking as he points to his iPhone. He’s unmistakably nervous, and not in a sweaty, early-Mark Zuckerberg kind of way. There must be a lot on his mind as the young CEO of a company bounding toward a $1 billion valuation — a company that has changed the course Continue Reading →

iOS 7 brought more than just a fancy new look to your iPhone – it also brought a bunch of new features. If you haven’t checked yet, there are many new ringtone and alert tones available in the Sounds menu of your iDevice’s Settings app. If you were using an Apple sound before, it’s still Continue Reading →