socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2017

Los Angeles-based Naritiv , which produces online content for brands, has been acquired by social media management firm Hootsuite , the two said on Tuesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Hootsuite said the acquisition specifically was geared towards the Snapchat analytics solutions created by Naritiv.

Snapchat

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Image via Pixabay After a frustrating meeting with a small business client recently who didn’t “have time” for social media, I was surprised to find evidence on the Internet that up to one quarter of small business owners are still hesitant to invest time, money, and effort into a social media strategy.

Social Media

socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2017

the parent company of Snapchat , said on Tuesday that it has not established a new international headquarters in London--despite media reports. Venice, California-based Snap, Inc. , The company said it has "one HQ, in Venice", and the changes in London simply involved billing advertising revenue in the UK through a UK entity.

Venice

socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2017

in cash for Zenly , the developer of a location-based social media app, in May, the company disclosed in its quarterly results on Thursday. Earlier reports had placed the acquisition of Zenly at between $250M to $350M. Los Angeles-based Snap Inc. paid $213.3M Snap said it paid $196.1M in purchase consideration, including $186.8M

Pricing

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

If anything, the OculusVR acquisition in 2014 signaled that Facebook saw VR as a social final frontier. While Snapchat face filters took us half-way there, new tech is making it easier for us to augment our faces with real world use cases while also getting closer to building out realistic avatars of our virtual selves.

UCLA

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2019

Venice-based social media app developer Snap said late Monday that it has named a new Chief Financial Officer and Chief People Officer, in a shuffling of its executive staff. Anderson has been at Snap since July of 2018, and previously served at Amazon.com and Fox Interactive Media.

Social Media

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

the parent company of Snapchat , has set its estimated initial IPO pricing, saying this morning in a filing that it estimates its initial public offering price at betwen $14.00 Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , and $16.00 Snap said it is planning to sell as many as 230,000,000 shares of its stock, which would net it around $3.68

Snapchat

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2017

the parent company of Snapchat is now expected as early as this week, as reports say the company has selected the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for its listing. The highly anticipated IPO filing for Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , The company's IPO is rumored to value the company at more than $25 billion. READ MORE>>.

Snapchat

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

There are lots of others trying to put content on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tiktok, which is more about entertainment around social media. What we do, is we take them from social media into a one-to-one relationship, via text, directly to their phone. Scott Grimes: A lot of it is for new user acquisition.

Content

LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Speakers included Mayor Eric Garcetti , Snapchat influencer Jake Paul (fresh off his 60 Minutes appearance), Loot Crate cofounder Chris Davis (whose company just topped the Inc 5000), and early Snapchat & Riot Games / SF-based investor Peter Lasky. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

Snapchat

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

We haven’t had any capital to really test customer acquisition strategies. Do you think the main visuals are the appealing factors in digital media? Don’t build your product, test, and try to validate unless what you are validating is a revenue model because Snapchats of the world are one in a billion. ML: I do.

Technical Review

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap --in what will be Southern California's biggest technology IPO, ever--is expected to price its IPO on Wednesday night, and start trading on Thursday morning. The company has set an estimated IPO offering range of between $14.00 and $16.00 per share, and is hoping to sell 200 million shares in its IPO.

Pricing

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. Why is Twitter’s user acquisition at a standstill , and why are their ad products failing? In 2009, when the platform was just under three years old, Nielsen put out a report stating that Twitter had grown 1,382% year-over-year. It was a destination for breaking news.

Platform