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JANUARY 27, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat --already an indispensable communications tool for the always-on, mobile generation--is looking to become an even more important part of its user''s lives, with a new feature it calls Discover. snapchat news information social media socialmedia discovery publisher publishing'

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JULY 7, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat has been sued in a class action lawsuit , over what the lawsuit says are obscene news stories published via Snapchat Discover. The lawsuit alleges "willful and intentional violations" of the Communications Decency Act by Snapchat in linking to media partners such as Buzzfeed, Vice, and MTV.

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JANUARY 11, 2016

In a demonstration of the extensive adoption of Venice-based social messaging service Snapchat , the White House said that it has launched its own "Official Story" on Snapchat. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

As more and more revelations of abuse of advertising systems at Google and Facebook by Kremlin-linked advertisers continue to surface--Venice, California-based Snapchat has managed to keep itself free of "fake news" using a secret weapon: humans.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Venice, California-based Snapchat , the social networking service that is part of Snap, Inc., Snapchat is under the microscope from UK lawmakers related to a criminal case where the family of a murder victim was taunted via Snapchat by a killer from prison. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat is in discussions with Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, over possible future funding for the company, according to the Prince''s investment firm, Kingdom Holding Company. companies, and says the Prince is the largest individual foreign investor in the United States. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

Venice-based Snap and Burbank-based NBCUniversal have partnered to form a new, Snapchat-centered, Hollywood studio, which will specifically create content for Snapchat, the two said this week. According to the two, the new studio's ownership will be split evenly between Snap and NBCU, and will be based in Santa Monica.

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MARCH 19, 2020

Venice, California-based Snapchat is launching its new set of health and wellness tools, well ahead of schedule, due to the growing threat of the COVID-19 virus threat, and will surface educational information on the new virus and health measures, as well as mental health content.

Snapchat

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MAY 23, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat, is launching a new startup accelerator, named "Yellow", the company disclosed on Wednesday afternoon. The accelerator said it will invest $150,000 into ten different "creators" and startups focused in the media area. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. He built & IPOd Demand Media. In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5 What Has Given Birth to This New Movement in LA? .

Entrepreneur

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Venice-based Snap is deepening its ties to major media companies, saying on Thursday that it will expand its Our Stories feature to allow those companies to pull user-submitted videos to create their own stories.

Media

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat , has sued social media influencer and actor Luka Sabbat for failing to promote the company's Spectacles in posts.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap, Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat , said on Tuesday that it has not established a new international headquarters in London--despite media reports. 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.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , has opened up an office in China, according to job posts and information surfaced via Chinese social media this week. The new office, in Shenzhen, will work on R&D for the company's new Spectacles product, its camera-enabled sunglasses product.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , 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 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

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

An internal, 15-page memo issued by Evan Spiegel , the CEO and founder of Venice-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat , has been leaked to the press , bringing light to a significant number of Snap's plans to attempt to reach profitability in 2019.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

The highly anticipated IPO filing for Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , 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 company's IPO is rumored to value the company at more than $25 billion. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap is set to see a punishing day on Wall Street, after reporting poorer than expected third quarter results last night, including poor user growth and sales. SNAP CEO Evan Spiegel said on Tuesday the company is planning a big redesign of its Snapchat app, to broaden appeal of its app to new users.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. All great communication companies.

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JULY 21, 2020

Venice, California-based Snap Inc. The investigations are allegedly over "whitewashing" within Snap, and disparagement of Block representation in media, according to the report. has reportedly launched an investigation into accusations of racism and sexism in the company, according to a report from the Business Insider.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: Walk into their Venice-based office and you’ll find a giant giraffe (dubbed their co-founder’s “spirit animal”) stuffed in their version of a startup treehouse. Social Media: Snapchat. Marketing: SteelHouse. Digital LA is the startup world’s largest networking organization focused on digital professionals.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

Venice-based Snap Inc. announced its quarterly results for its second quarter, saying that it had a net loss of $443.0M on revenues of $181.67M for the quarter ended June 30th, 2017. The company's revenues increased from Q2 of 2016, when it had $71.798M in revenues. According to Snap, it now had daily active users (DAUs) of 173 million in Q2.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

On your birthday, something special happens on social media: you receive hundreds of likes and well wishes from friends, family, high school classmates and people you haven’t talked to for years on Facebook. I chose Venice, California as a great breeding ground for this tool to help all the local businesses,” said Hagger.

Startup

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MARCH 11, 2014

Venice-based Zefr (www.zefr.com) got its start in the content world--licensing movie clips and posting them online--but soon, figured out there was a whole different opportunity in developing software tools to understand exactly what was happening on YouTube. Plus, they''ve invested in Los Angeles.

Hollywood

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JUNE 19, 2020

politics, after Culver City-based Jukin Media issued a takedown request for a misleading, manipulated video that has been retweeted by Donald Trump. Another, Southern California technology company has ended up in the middle of increasingly divided U.S.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Venice, California-based Snap said it will no longer promote posts by Donald Trump on Wednesday, making the President's content harder to find, and no longer featuring it in Discover. According to Snap, "We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover.

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