Snapchat

A new forecast by eMarketer suggests that teenage users of Facebook are gradually moving away from the platform in favor of Instagram and Snapchat. It appears the growth that Facebook is experiencing is slowing considerably in both the United States and the United Kingdom due to lower usage among teenagers and young adults, while the […]

Snapchat maker Snap Inc. on Thursday posted its consolidated financial results for the second quarter of the year, revealing that it missed street estimates from analysts in terms of revenue and user growth, one of its most important metrics. The company’s operating revenue over the three-month period ending June 30 amounted to $182 million, a […]

Snap Inc is looking to cut down even further on the number of leaks coming out of the company, sources close to the company have claimed, following a recent leak about a now-implemented feature called Snap Maps. Non-disclosures and limiting the knowledge held by any single employee are common tactics when any company is trying to […]

Google reportedly wanted to pay around $30 Billion to acquire Snap Inc. according to a recent report from Business Insider. This would be about $26 Billion more than what Google was rumored to be offering to buy out Snapchat back in late 2015. While there hasn’t been recent detail regarding the possible interest for such […]

Snapchat has long been a place to share no more than 10 seconds at a time of your life with anybody you pleased, but an update that dropped yesterday, which adds in a paintbrush tool that can change the colors of objects in a Snap, also partially circumvents that by letting you capture up to […]

Snap Inc. has rolled out a handful of new updates that allow users to insert links to their snaps, add backdrops to photos, and modify their voice with filters. The image messaging app now lets users add hyperlinks to their Stories and snaps before sharing them with friends using the new Paperclip feature. The tool […]

Snap on Wednesday announced a new tool for creating Snapchat Geofilters which allows users of its popular social network to design such offerings directly on their smartphones. The functionality is being rolled out through a client-side update to the Snapchat Android app that started being distributed earlier this week and should already be available for […]

Update: In a statement provided to Android Headlines, Royal Caribbean confirmed that Snap didn’t participate in the development of SeaSeekers and has only provided the Miami-based firm with its blessing. The original story is as follows. Cruise company Royal Caribbean recently introduced SeaSeekers, a new wearable that takes the form of a diving mask and was designed […]

The number of Snapchat app downloads for the first two months of the second quarter of 2017 went down by 22 percent compared to the same period last year. The social network’s dismal performance for this quarter is in contrast to Snapchat’s growth in the previous quarter, wherein app downloads were up by 6 percent. […]

Snapchat may be looking to add payments for stuff through PayPal as Snap was discovered to have installed the PayPal SDK which seems to signify that it has plans to add in some sort of e-commerce or payment solution into the app. Snapchat already has a person to person payment system in place called Snapcash, so […]

Snapchat maker Snap acquired consumer tracking firm Placed, as confirmed by David Shim, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the latter. Shim on Monday took to the company’s official blog to provide a brief announcement on the matter, adding that Placed will continue operating in an autonomous manner and pursuing the same goals it did […]

Snapchat now requires Location Services for all basic filters, some users of the popular ephemeral messaging app have reported. The change was seemingly introduced with the latest client-side update for Snapchat that started rolling out on the Google Play Store last week, with initial reports claiming that the app wants to access a user’s location […]

As of May 23, Snapchat users are getting at least one new feature geared toward creating and sharing memories with others. The new feature, christened “Custom Stories” by Snap Inc., and its accompanying enhancements will effectively allow users a greater amount of control over how their snaps are both created and shared. Custom Stories allow users to […]

The latest Instagram app update is giving users even more creative control over how they want to tell and share their memories through photos and videos with the launch of new face filters, creative modes and stickers. Face filters, as the name implies, allows you to add creative objects to your face, and the feature works […]

Snapchat is almost as popular among teenagers in the United States as Facebook is, according to a recent market analysis that was conducted by eMarketer before being picked up by Recode earlier this week. The Snap-owned social media service is reportedly used by 59 percent of people aged 12 to 17, 68 percent of those […]

Snapchat has become the latest hot social media network, and it’s actually one that Facebook has taken its features and put in every single app that they own (Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger and even WhatsApp). But today, the company made a rather drastic change to sharing photos and videos inside Snapchat. Prior to this change, […]

Snapchat maker Snap patented a technology for building and managing an augmented reality (AR) database, as revealed by a set of filings published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Thursday. The original patent application was submitted in 2015 — when Snap was still called Snapchat — though it was n0t officially approved until […]

Snapchat maker Snap signed a number of high-profile video content deals as part of its growing ambitions related to original programming that it’s looking to serve on its platform, The Wall Street Journal reports. Industry sources said on Thursday that the Venice, Los Angeles-based Internet giant recently agreed to partnerships with a number of major […]

Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said that the largest social media network on the planet was initially slow to compete with Snapchat but has managed to recover from its inferior position on the market and is now running the most popular camera-focused sharing app on the planet. Zuckerberg’s comments were made during a conference call with […]

Snapchat maker Snap denied allegations that its Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel said the popular social media app is “only for rich people.” In a statement provided to Business Insider, the Venice, Los Angeles-based Internet firm labeled the notion of Spiegel saying such a thing “ridiculous.” The accusation was initially made by one Anthony Pompliano, Snap’s former […]

Snap Inc., the makers of social media app Snapchat, finally obliged to release the complaint filed against the company by a former employee last January. The lawsuit, filed by the former leader of Snapchat’s user growth team Anthony Pompliano, alleges that Snap Inc. lied about the key metrics of the social network prior to the […]

Advertisers can track the stores you visit through Snapchat. Using GPS location data Snapchat can give advertisers valuable information about what stores users may be visiting, so they can match that data with a geofilter ad campaign that’s running in the app. The capability to track users via this new method comes by way of […]

McDonald’s started soliciting Snapchat job applications in Australia earlier this month, local media reports. The fast food restaurant chain is reportedly asking applicants to send 10-second snaps as part of their job applications. Apart from being ten seconds long, the snaps should also feature a special McDonald’s live filter that shows the applicants wearing a […]

The latest update for Snapchat will allow users to search for Snapchat Stories, Snap announced. The Los Angeles-based social media giant said the new Snapchat feature initially started rolling out “in select cities” throughout the United States a few days back but promised that the functionality will be available worldwide in the near future. The company didn’t provide […]

Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., recently went public, and has begun being under the microscope of analysts as well as investors, many hoping that their decision to buy stock in the company known as Snap Inc., will pay off. And right now, it appears that it might just pay off. According to Emarketers analysts, they […]

Snapchat is one of the most popular image and video messaging apps out there, and one of the most popular apps in the Google Play Store. This app has been downloaded somewhere in between 500 million and 1 billion times from the Google Play Store at the time of writing this article, and has over […]

Instagram is significantly more appealing to advertisers than Snapchat, a study series by RBC Capital Markets and AdAge magazine revealed. In addition to the Facebook-owned social media service, Facebook itself is seen as being a better platform for advertising than Snapchat, the studies suggested. RBC Capital Markets interviewed 1,600 advertisers for its studies, and close […]

Snapchat maker Snap is said to be developing a drone, several sources from the company told The New York Times. It is understood that Snap’s drone would be able to record aerial images and videos and upload them to the cloud, probably even Snapchat, much like the company’s recently released pair of connected glasses called […]

Last year, Snapchat introduced Spectacles, these are their glasses that have a camera built in, allowing you to send stuff straight from your glasses to your Snapchat story. It’s pretty impressive, and a lot like Google Glass, but much cheaper. Snap (the parent company of Snapchat), has been selling Spectacles through vending machines called “Snap […]

Snapchat maker Snap Inc. wants to become “a camera company,” as revealed by the firm’s new video dedicated to its roadshow that’s meant to set the stage for Snap’s initial public offering (IPO). The 35-minute video states that the Venice-based social media giant is looking to evolve past its ephemeral messaging roots and focus on […]

Snap is reportedly looking to improve the Android version of the Snapchat app to drive user growth outside of the United States. While the company’s social app enjoys a large following stateside, it apparently isn’t doing a great job of attracting users outside of its home country where a vast majority of consumers is using […]

One of Snapchat’s most popular features is undoubtedly its line of “Lenses” that vary over time but according to a new report, it appears the company is getting ready to take its lenses a step further by including some new AR content that will be overlayed onto objects in a shot. Currently, Snapchat does offer […]

A new Snapchat update that the company started experimenting with earlier this month is now rolling out globally. In addition to a design overhaul and a new search bar, the update also ships with a revised set of Discover guidelines aimed to prevent dissemination of fake news and explicit content. Publishers looking to create content for […]

Snapchat started rolling out a new universal search bar on Thursday, the Californian company told TechCrunch. The new feature is now available to some Android users and should roll out worldwide in the coming weeks. Unlike the previous solution, Snapchat’s new search bar can be accessed from the top of the app’s main screen and can […]

Snap Inc, the social media giant running Snapchat decided to open the headquarters of its international operations in London, the firm said on Tuesday. The company’s new division is called Snap Group Limited and will soon be operational. Claire Valoti, General Manager at Snap Group, explained that Snap decided to settle in London as that’s […]

Snapchat started rolling out advertising tools powered by machine learning earlier this month, the company confirmed on Wednesday. The Los Angeles-based social media giant is hoping to utilize these new methods to increase the overall performance of its ads, particularly the average duration of user interaction. The new features were introduced with an option for goal-based […]

Uber is introducing limited custom Snapchat filters that you can only use during your ride. The partnership between the two services and apps allows for you to request an Uber, make your way to whoever you’re supposed to be meeting, and then send a few custom snaps in the process so they can share in […]

Snapchat’s Spectacles are an entirely new breed of smart eyewear, tying in deeply to Snapchat and eschewing high function of its own. In another departure from most smart glasses and other head-mounted wearables, the Snapchat Spectacles are meant to also be fashionable. During a testing period, one could receive a pair simply by happening to […]

Snapchat has come a long way from the app that was simply used to send quick images to one another over the web, and has become a massive force to be reckoned with in the world of social media, as well as computer vision, too. Snapchat filters have become not just entertaining, but incredibly accurate. […]

Snapchat came a long way since launching its ephemeral messaging app half a decade ago. Since then, the Venice, California-based company introduced a plethora of features which made Snapchat one of the most popular apps among millennials on the planet, rebranded itself into Snap Inc., and jumped into hardware development. Its first piece of consumer electronics […]

Rumors of Snapchat — now Snap Inc — going public have been circulating the industry for weeks, and it seems that the Venice, California-based social media giant has already initiated the execution phase of the plan to offer its shares on the US stock market. As Reported by Reuters, sources close to the company are claiming […]

Facebook’s obsession with copying Snapchat is a well-documented fact. Ever since releasing a Snapchat clone called Poke in 2012 and trying to acquire the Venice, California-based social network for $3 billion a year later, the social media giant went on to make 11 more attempts at taking over Snapchat’s growing user base. From standalone apps […]

Machine learning is increasingly becoming all the rage, and Google is banking on it for the future of the company’s cloud computing business. As part of the search giant’s push in machine learning, Google has formed a new artificial intelligence team for Google Cloud called the Google Cloud Machine Learning group. Google has also hired […]

Snap Inc., the company behind the wildly popular messaging app, Snapchat, announced a new product a couple of months ago called Spectacles. The smartphone-connected sunglasses use a special 115-degree wide-angle camera, which is meant to imitate what the human eye sees, and they come equipped with an indicator light to let other people know when […]

We all have seen Facebook’s persistent efforts in recent years to try to beat Snapchat in the picture and video messaging app race. In December 2012, the social networking giant unveiled the Poke app, which allowed users to send instant messages, photos, or videos that vanished after ten seconds at most. Two years later, in […]

Snapchat has become pretty popular, so popular in fact that Mark Zuckerberg offered to buy it. He was unsuccessful, so instead he cloned it with Instagram Stories, which launched a few months ago. Now Snapchat is looking to add some more features to keep their users on their platform instead of hopping over to Instagram. […]

One of the biggest ways that Google makes its money outside of its main search product is through investments. Their recently renamed investment arm, now known as CapitalG, recently revamped their home page to match their new name. The page features a number of different pages with all sorts of information about Google’s investing operations, […]

Snapchat, the popular image messaging and multimedia mobile app known for its ability to send videos and pictures that will be deleted permanently shortly after viewing, has an ever increasing user base. The social media platform regularly brings new features to its app and one of its most notable features is the Discover section, which […]

Snapchat is one of the most used apps available for both Android and iOS. The app, which sends messages that “self-destruct” after being viewed, includes many fun features that let users customize photos and videos before sending them to friends, as well as ways to discover interesting content from other users. One of the most […]

Today is Monday and that does inevitably mean that tomorrow is Tuesday. However, this particular upcoming Tuesday is a little different to most others, as it is October 4. To anyone interesting in Google, Android or tech in general, that means it is the day that Google is hosting (what is turning out to be) […]

The most popular social network on the planet has recently introduced a Messenger feature that’s basically a carbon copy of Snapchat Stories. It’s called Messenger Day and has recently debuted in Poland, TechCrunch reports. Its name isn’t a reference to its availability but refers to the fact that photos and video content posted with Messenger […]

A few years back Google unveiled Google Glass, a connected wearable that goes over the user’s eye and gives them information on the go. Unfortunately, due to many factors which likely included the very high price tag, limited uses, and unusual look of Google Glass, the world wasn’t ready for the product, and it never […]

When it comes to advertising, any business knows that the best approach is three-fold; go where your customers are, choose a demographic, and show them something they want. This leads to better engagement and retention with ads, with users remembering the advertisement and often ending up making a purchasing decision springing from it. For Adidas […]

Losing your job can be a small setback, a personal revelation, or one of the most devastating things to happen in your lifetime, depending on how you handle it. 15 Snapchat employees reportedly found that out the hard way on Wednesday when their positions were eliminated. The function that these employees had performed, curation of […]

Rumors of Snapchat building some mysterious hardware have been passed along for a couple of years already, but more recent events can probably be qualified as the strongest clues supporting the “Snapchat building hardware” theory so far. Apparently, Snapchat recently joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG), which is technically a strong indication that […]

Snapchat have today improved their on-demand geofilters by building an easier to use front end on the website that uses templates. These on-demand geofilters were introduced six months ago as a means of encouraging Snapchat users to personalize their stories by using paid-for filters that are custom designed and set to run for a period […]

A new rumor has surfaced stating that Snapchat is preparing to spend an amount that is in excess of $100 million ($110 million according to the report) to acquire Vurb, a smartphone search engine. Although the exact amount has not been detailed, the total amount is said to be a combination of both stock (75%) […]

Snapchat is widely popular among users as a messaging app, and a significant part of the popularity can be attributed to Snapchat lens. This feature, introduced in September 2015 allows the user to add real-time effects to their faces by using face detection technology. Since then, Snapchat has continuously upgraded the feature to make it better. […]

Snapchat has already had geofilters available for quite some time. These filters differ from place to place, and allow you to add filters to your videos and photos. For example, if you are at a sporting venue, you’ll see filters specific to that place as well as that city. Now Snapchat is beginning to roll […]

Today, Snapchat has officially announced that they will allow their users to send snaps of personalized emoji to other users. The feature is actually made possible by a partnership between Snapchat and Bitmoji who are providing the personalized emoji capabilities. Beyond being able to send a snap with a Bitmoji inside, users will also be […]