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San Francisco: Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, is slowing down on hiring this year, as tech companies’ stocks go through rough weathers amid challenging macro-economic environment globally. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel told employees that the company plans to hire 500 people this year, versus 2,000 it hired over the past 12 months, after warning […]
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San Francisco: Popular social media platform Snapchat has introduced its first-ever drone camera called Pixy which is said to be a pocket-sized device and can help you create better. Meet Pixy. Your friendly flying camera. Pixy brings magic to every moment, all you have to do is let it fly! #FlyWithMe pic.twitter.com/GAh8znI76I — Snap Pixy (@snappixy) […]
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San Francisco: Social media platform Snapchat is growing faster than Facebook and Twitter and in its latest quarterly report, the platform said it grew its daily active users (DAUs) 18 per cent to 332 million (year-on-year). While Facebook (now Meta) had reported its first loss in the number of DAUs last quarter, Twitter’s monetizable DAUs […]
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Orlando: According to a new study, parents who share photos of their children on social networking sites tend to have a more friend-like parenting style and allow their kids to use social media at younger ages. The findings of the study were published in the journal, ‘Computing Machinery’. These parents also tend to share posts […]
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San Francisco/New Delhi: TikTok’s meteoric rise has baffled Meta (formerly Facebook) as the Chinese short-video app is set to overtake the global advertising share of micro-blogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing platform Snapchat this year. Moreover, TikTok is predicted to catch up with Google-owned YouTube by clocking $23.6 billion in ad revenue by 2024, reports The […]
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San Francisco: Popular social network Snapchat has announced that it is rolling out a new ASL Alphabet lens to encourage users to start learning American Sign Language. The company said that it is constantly working to expand the ways Snapchatters can express themselves and make connections through its Camera. “We hope that Lenses not only […]
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San Francisco: Popular social media app Snapchat is launching a new feature called “Custom Landmarkers” that lets creators build unique AR experiences for local places they care about. The company said the feature, which is accessible in its Lens Studio, can be used to create landmarkers for things like statues and storefronts in creators’ local […]
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As per The Verge, the change comes after a lawsuit last year sought to hold Snapchat liable for misuse of its platform linked to the death of a teenager who was being bullied on two Snapchat-connected apps.
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The first indication that YouTube Music might be able to share songs to Instagram and Snapchat emerged in November of 2020, reports 9To5Google.
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San Francisco: Snapchat has announced that it is temporarily turning off its “heat map” feature for Ukraine, so the app no longer shows how many snaps are being taken in particular locations. The company said that the move is “a safety precaution” and that there will still be a curated public feed of snaps submitted […]
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Hyderabad: Filmmaker SS Rajamouli’s much-hyped pan-India film ‘RRR’ has introduced a Snapchat filter featuring the film’s title as part of its second promotional phase. As part of their online promotions, the producers of ‘RRR’ have also launched a new Snapchat filter, which reads, ‘maRRRch is here’. A filter indicates that ‘RRR’s’ release month has arrived. […]
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In the fourth quarter of 2021, Snap reported $1.3 billion in revenue (up 42 per cent) with a net income of $22.6 million.
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The Story Studio app is meant to give creators more precise editing control over vertical videos and allow them to add elements like text, trending audio, and AR lenses, reports The Verge.
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New Delhi: Snapchatters can now join Kim Kardashian West and Kris Jenner in the new #KindnessChallenge on Spotlight (Snapchat’s in-app entertainment platform for UGC content) showing how you spread kindness and joy by doing something nice for your family, friends or community. Kim Kardashian West says: “When you spread kindness, you immediately have the power […]
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The experience has been brought forward by using augmented reality that allows Snapchatters and HP fans around the globe to take part in the Harry Potter fun from home, and cheer from the sidelines in their Hogwarts house colours.
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"These results suggest that certain social media use preceded worsening of depressive symptoms," they added.
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Manideep Manchala and Ramya Vangala’s food blogging page on Instagram has more than 60K followers
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The company virtually hosted the second edition of "Snap in India" to celebrate Snap's growing community of Indian partners, creators, brands, storytellers and Snapchatters.
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In an earnings call late on Thursday, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said that the company missed the lower end of its guidance due to a few key factors.
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The main aim of the tool is to solve common problems that young people face when determining whether they want to get involved in local politics or not.
