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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

A new lawsuit, targeting Venice, California-based Snapchat --the hottest company to emerge out of the area''s high tech startup cluster in recent years--says that the company''s founders stole the idea for the company from him after forcing him out of the company early on in its history. snapchat legal lawsuit social networking mobile'

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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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JUNE 1, 2011

Altly detailed its plans to create an alternative to Facebook last week, complaining in a lengthy manifesto from Shapiro that an alternative to Facebook was sorely needed due to privacy and other issues with the social networking site. Shapiro was the former founder of Veoh Networks and head of MySpace Music. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

Venice-based social messaging phenom Snapchat has locked down its Find Friends features, saying that it has improved security on the feature, after reports of the widespread release of around 4.6 snapchat find friends security breach software social networking' million phone numbers and usernames from the service.

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APRIL 23, 2012

Venice-based Viddy , the developer of a mobile app used to share videos over social networks, has added a number of celebrities to its list of investors.

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MARCH 8, 2018

Venice, California-based social networking app developer Snap Inc. has laid off more than 120 engineers, according to reports based on internal emails being circulated from the company, saying it had cut its "lowest performing" engineers in recent job reviews. The layoffs represent around 10 percent of Snap's engineering team.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

A report, published Thursday by Bloomberg, says that Apple is working on a clone of the software from Venice, California-based Snapchat --in a bid to make a renewed push into the social networking area. 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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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 20, 2019

Venice, California-based Snapchat , the social networking service that is part of Snap, Inc., is under fire in the UK, after the company admitted that its age-verification system "doesn't work" to UK lawmakers.

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DECEMBER 11, 2015

According to the startup, its new Ostetso platform is designed to help developers add their own, photo sharing social network with only a few lines of code. The platform handles everything from the photo gallery within the app to all the back-end database and image storage.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Forbes published its ranking of all of the world''s billionaires this week, with an interesting addition: the co-founders of Venice, California-based Snapchat. snapchat evan spiegel billionaire forbes richest american world social networking communications nantworks patrick soon-shiong elon musk' billion, ranked at #1250.

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APRIL 6, 2016

Clapit is the second, Australian startup to set up shop in Los Angeles in the last few days; another, social networking app maker from Australia, Bombd, just announced this week that it had set up in Venice Beach. Bedwell, Mary Jane Bulseco and Stan Tsvirko. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2009

Venice, California-based Topspin , a developer of software focused on helping musicians market and distribute their work, launched an upgrade to its product Wednesday at the SXSW festival.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Evan Spiegel , the CEO of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat , was paid $637.8M in compensation in 2017, in combined stock options and salary--the third highest CEO payout ever , according to Reuters. Spiegel's big payday was split between $636.6M in stock-based awards, plus $1.2M

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MARCH 29, 2018

Venice-based Snap has cut another 100 of its employees , according to reports on Thursday, as it continues to trim its workforce. The cuts this time apparently came from the advertising side of Snap, and follows a big layoff of engineers in February. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Each day Doppels will let you know whose birthday it is within your social network or local area and offer you a wish, gift or text option. I chose Venice, California as a great breeding ground for this tool to help all the local businesses,” said Hagger. How great is that?! Big brands are also heading for Doppels.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A report on Tuesday afternoon from Reuters says that Venice, California-based social communications and networking app developer Snapchat has filed its paperwork for its IPO. No terms or details on that IPO have been yet announced by the company, which has been rumored to be working on an IPO for months. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat is hoping to launch an IPO, which will raise the company an astounding $4 billion in capital--valuing the company at between $25 billion and $35 billion--according to a report on Wednesday from Bloomberg. The report cites "people familiar with the matter" for the information.

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JULY 19, 2016

Roni Eschel: It's a market network for outdoor sports, a social network for connecting like minded people, sharing conditions and moments in real time, and helping to find the best spots for your favorite sports, like surfing, paddleboard, kite surfing, and so on. Roni Eschel: We are building out the social network now.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The next generation of social networking and communications companies are very interesting, people are thinking about taking identity and their social graph everywhere on the web with you, which I think will lead to a bunch of interesting companies. What areas you personally are looking at right now?

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