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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

A report, published by eMarketer on Tuesday, says that Venice, California-based Snapchat will earn an estimated $1 billion in ad revenues next year. The report predicted that Snapchat will represent 2 percent of social network ad dollars in the US next year. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 17, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat has named Tom Conrad, the former CTO of Pandora, as its new VP of Product, the company disclosed on Wednesday. Conrad--who is based in the Bay Area--was CTO at Pandora between 2004 and 2014. He also served at Kenamea, Pets.com, Documentum/Relevance, Berkeley Systems, and Apple Computer. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap, Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat , has been sued in a patent infringement suit, by a company called Vaporstream. Snap Inc), and cites a number of patents which were granted to Vaporstream in July of 2005 for Vaporstream's secure messaging products. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat said over the weekend that it has renamed itself to Snap Inc. , According to a post by Evan Spiegel, the company decided to drop the "chat" portion of its name so that it can expand on the number of different products that it is developing. for the Wall Street crowd :)". for the Wall Street crowd :)".

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Venice-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , is continuing in its quest to add hardware to its products, with the introduction of its third generation Spectacles , the Spectacles 3. Snap has started taking pre-orders for the pricey glasses, capable of capturing 3D content, for the price of only $380.

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MARCH 26, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat , has quietly acquired a 3D gaming engine developer based in the UK, according to a report. According to the report, Snap acquired PlayCanvas, a developer of 3D game design software, last May. No details on the acquisition have been announced by either of the companies.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Looking to buy one of Snapchat's new high tech Spectacles ? The new product, from Snapchat parent Snap Inc., is only available what Snap is calling the "Snapbot", a vending machine which moves from place to place selling its Snapchat specific, wirelessly enabled camera. READ MORE>>.

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2017

Venice-based Snap Inc. 's s latest product--if you believe the company's third party, Amazon store--is a giant Dancing Hot Dog Costume , being sold alongside the company's Spectacles. Snap's listing for the costume says the costume fits "people below 6'4", and age 14+" and is "Made of 100% beef, but never starts it!".

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE has made a grand prize award in one of its challenges, the $1.75M Water Abundance XPRIZE , to a local, Venice Beach based team. According to the XPRIZE Foundation, it awarded $1.5M to the Skysource / Skywater Alliance team , which has developed technology which wrings water out of thing air.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap is continuing to see turnover in its hardware unit, SnapLab, and has lost its VP of Hardware Development in charge of its Spectacles sunglasses product, the third head of that unit in the past six months.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

And consider Snapchat – one of our hometown favorites as they’re based in LA (Venice Beach). That’s our great gain as Snapchat has also raised a lot of money at a monster valuation ($10 billion reported) and has been scooping up talented Stanford engineers and relocating them to LA.

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JULY 21, 2017

Snap - Venice - (www.snap.com). How is the parent company of Snapchat involved in drone development? It's a bit of a mystery, but Snapchat acquired a maker of drones in May, Ctrl Me Robotics. Slantrange - San Diego - (www.slantrange.com). Skysafe - San Diego - (www.skysafe.com). 5D Robotics - San Diego - (www.5drobotics.com).

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

A report, published by The Information this morning, says that Venice, California-based Snap "badly overestimated demand" for its Spectacles product, and now has hundreds of thousands of units piled up in warehouses. The report cited two people "close to the company", saying Snap is "already struggling to meet expectations".

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JANUARY 29, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap is about to get a big new challenger to its flagship "Spectacles" line, from none other than Google , as Google rolled out a new product called Google Clips over the weekend.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Newport Beach-based PogoTec said today that it has launched its first product, the PogoCam , a miniature camera designed to attach to any pair of glasses. The new device appears to be directly competitive to Venice-based Snap's own camera sunglasses. The new device costs $149.00.

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JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. 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. Part accelerator, part lab, and part café, Hub LA is a diverse community working for social good.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. 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. KickStarter?

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