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JUNE 11, 2019

In an unconventional, and probably unintended use of the Snapchat "gender switch" filter, a Bay Area college student has snagged a cop , who allegedly was looking to "hook up" with a teenage girl. Snapchat is based in Venice, California. He allegedly approached what he thought was a 16 year old girl and proposed a hookup.

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MAY 24, 2019

Employees of Venice-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , have been abusing access to a tool--SnapLion--that allows them to retrieve user data, including saved Snaps, location information, phone numbers, and email addresses, according to a report.

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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.

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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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MAY 11, 2018

A new report this morning says that a new survey of users of Venice, California-based Snap 's social networking app, Snapchat , finds opinion of the brand has dropped significantly due to its redesign. READ MORE>>.

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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 5, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap, Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat , has filed lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that he was fired for refusing to tell lies to potential IPO investors. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Venice-based instant messaging company Snap Inc. otherwise known as SnapChat , is aiming at a March IPO, according to a report on Thursday afternoon. Snapchat has been rumored to have been working on an IPO for several months now, and had been looking to choose an investment bank for the offering earlier this year.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Venice, California-based messaging app developer Snapchat is planning to roll out its first advertising effort soon, according to CEO Evan Spiegel, who said this week at the Vanity Fair New Establishment summit. snapchat advertising message instant disappearing social mobile smartphone evan spiegel' READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Venice-based Snapchat is apparently testing a feature that will allow its users to insert their own faces (or those of their friends)--"deepfake"-style--into other people's videos, and has been testing the feature in France , according to French users. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat has detailed how to go about buying its new, connected "Spectacles" sunglasses, through a network of vending machines, the company said on Thursday. Snapchat said that users can use a "Find a Bot" function on its website to find the nearest location for its glasses, which automatically captures video from users.

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APRIL 16, 2013

Snapchat , the hot Venice-based startup which lets users send self-destructing photos to each other, has been hit by a spam attack, the firm said this morning. Snapchat said that it believes an individual created multiple accounts and sent snaps to Snapchatters with public accounts. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap has rolled out a new integration deal with Amazon , saying on Monday that it has added a new feature which lets users takes photos of physical products or barcodes, and automatically have those products ordered from the Snapchat camera. Snapchat says the new feature is the "fastest way to shop!".

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MARCH 15, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , the company behind Snapchat , has run into more controversy, after celebrity Rihanna weighed in on an poll advertisement Snapchat had approved and run on its service asked viewers to vote on whether they'd like to "slap Rihanna" or "punch Chris Brown".

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MARCH 9, 2017

has opened up its second, bricks-and-mortar store selling its Spectacles sunglasses, just down the street from its Venice headquarters. Snap's Spectacles allow Snapchat users to record short snippets of video, and automatically post them to their account. Los Angeles-based Snap, Inc. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

Venice-based Snapchat has plans to add news articles, advertisements, TV, and movie clips to the service, according to reports this week, in a new service called Snapchat Discovery. snapchat news advertising photo messaging disappearing social' READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2013

Venice-based photo messaging service Snapchat is reportedly raising $100M in funding, at a valuation of half a billion dollars, according to a report Friday. Snapchat--which operates a mobile photo messaging service which is very popular with the teenage set--is backed by Benchmark Capital, and had previously raised $12.5M

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JULY 19, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat has confirmed its acquisition of Bitmoji, the developer of software which lets people create their own, personalized "emoji", which they can insert into Snapchat. The company--which announced the deal via a comic strip on Tuesday--said Bitmoji's team has joined Snapchat as part of the deal.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat , has acquired social app startup Zenly , in a deal reportedly worth $250M to $350M in cash and stock. Snapchat just rolled out a new, location sharing feature for Snapchat based on Zenly's technology, but will continue to operate Zenly as an independent service.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Snap, Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat, has reportedly acquired Israeli startup Cimagine Media. The deal is reportedly worth between $30M and $40M. Cimaging Media develops augmented reality technology. The acquisition was first reported by a local Israeli financial daily. Cimagine was founded in 2012. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Venice-based social photo messaging service Snapchat had a major security breach over the holidays, when at least 4.6 Snapchat has not yet responded to the reports on the leaked data. snapchat social mobile startup instant photo messaging security' The breached data was apparently published via a post to Reddit.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Venice-based Snapchat said Monday that it has launched a new feature, which lets users pay their friends using the company''s mobile app. According to Snapchat, it partnered with payment firm Square, which lets you type a dollar sign and amount to send to a friend''s bank account, using a user''s debit card. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 10, 2014

The company said it has moved into a new office in Venice, which it calls "LA''s most respectable tech neighborhood". The company--which, amazingly, had grown to that nearly $100M with only remote workers and no physical office--said its new loft offices are nearby Snapchat, Whisper and Google. The company is led by Asher Delug.

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JULY 23, 2018

Venice-based Snap is shutting down the Snapcash payment feature of Snapcash , which had offered up peer-to-peer payments on its network. Snapchat had launched the peer-to-peer payment service in conjunction with Square back in 2014. The feature will be shut down on August 30th. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 30, 2014

Venice-based Snapchat is reportedly in talks with Alibaba for more funding, in a deal which values Snapchat at $10 billion. The report, from Bloomberg, did not say how much Snapchat is looking to raise from Alibaba. snapchat alibaba bloomberg rumor' Bloomberg cited "people with knowledge of the situation."

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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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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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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Yahoo is planning a big investment in Venice-based Snapchat , in a deal that values Snapchat at $10 billion, according to a report over the weekend. The WSJ reports that Yahoo is investing around $20M in Snapchat at the lofty valuation, using money it cashed out of the IPO of Alibaba. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In a very bold move, Venice-based Snapchat has apparently turned down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook , according to a report today from the Wall Street Journal. snapchat merger acquisition exit facebook tencent mobile' READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2014

Venice, California-based social networking wunderkind Snapchat has extended out its application, saying today that it has added a new, video chat ability to its app--part of a move to add "presence" to the company''s popular app. snapchat chat videochat expansion social networking' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

Venice-based instant photo messaging service Snapchat has released an update to the company''s software for both Android and iOS, in response to the major security breach over the holidays resulting from the abuse of its "Find Friends" feature. snapchat security software breach social networking cybersecurity network'

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Venice, California-based Snapchat said on Tuesday that it has launched a new group chat feature , called Groups , which lets up to 16 people communicate through the service. The new feature also includes ways to quickly start 1:1 chats with members of the group.

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MARCH 4, 2016

Venice-based instant messaging app maker Snapchat has raised another $175M in funding , according to the WSJ this morning, from Fidelity Investments. According to the report, the new funding values Snapchat at $16 billion, the same valuation as the company's last funding injection. Snapchat has now raised more than $1.2

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Venice, California-based social media app developer Snapchat has made a significant, high visibility hire, saying this week that it has hired Peter Magnusson, a former engineering director from Google, as its new Vice President of Engineering. The high profile hire comes as Snapchat ramps its recruiting efforts. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 8, 2014

The FTC charges came out both the agency''s dis-satisfaction with the way Snapchat represented how difficult it was to pull screenshots and video from the app, as well as the widely publicized security breach where hackers pulled 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and phone numbers from the service. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Venice, California-based Snapchat said Tuesday that it has settled a dispute with Reggie Brown , the fellow Stanford University student who had claimed that he came up with the idea for Snapchat. snapchat lawsuit reggie brown legal settlement social media' Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

Venice-based Snapchat is in the midst of raising a new round of funding, led by storied venture capital investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which valued the company at close to $10 billion, according to a report. The report also said that Snapchat has around 100 million monthly active users now using its messaging service.

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