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Snapchat Debuts Headspace Meditation Tool

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Venice, California-based Snapchat has debuted the new meditation features that it developed with Los Angeles-based Headspace this morning, the new meditation-with-friends feature that the company announced at its Partner Summit in June. Snapchat showed off how those "mini" features would work at its Partner Summit in June.

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Snapchat Drops Speed Filter

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Venice-based Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has pulled a controversial filter, which had been accused of encouraging reckless driving. The company has faced a number of lawsuits from families of users who had been injured or killed in car crashes, claiming the filter had resulted in those accidents.

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Atom Tickets Launches On Snapchat

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Santa Monica-based movie ticketing app Atom Tickets is launching its app as a third-party, branded experience on Snapchat , the company announced on Wednesday.

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Snapchat Expands Efforts At Yellow Accelerator

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Venice-based Snapchat says it is expanding the outreach efforts it has been running as part of its Yellow Accelerator. Snapchat said it is expanding Yellow to introduce a new program to support Snapchat integration, in addition to its annual programs. Snap just started taking applications for Yellow Collabs. READ MORE>>.

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Half Lives. Social Media. And Snapchat Stories.

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I began experimenting with time-of-day, number of Tweets, headline text, etc and learned a ton about usage patterns of Twitter and I even invested in a social media analytics company called Awe.sm, an influencer network called Adly and a data firehose company called Datasift (who now powers the Facebook Topics feed). Think about that.

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MomentFeed Links With Snapchat

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Los Angeles-based MomentFeed , which develops social marketing software to help multi-location, retail brands better manage the information about their local stores, has linked up with Snapchat's partner program, according to the company.

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Report: Snapchat, NBC Team On 2020 Olympic Summer Games Coverage

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Los Angeles-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , has inked a deal with NBC where NBC will produce four, daily original shows on the Olympics and Team USA for Snapchat, according to Variety. Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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