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Snapchat to start reminding users to clean out their friends list
Washington: Multimedia messaging application Snapchat is introducing a new feature called ‘Friend Check Up’. According to The Verge, on Snapchat, adding someone to one’s friend list could give them access…
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Snapchat hits 265M daily active users, India growth market
New Delhi: Despite the cut-throat competition coming from the Facebook family of apps, Snapchat has added 16 million daily active users in the fourth quarter of 2020 to reach 265 million…
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Snapchat announces $3.5mn fund for creators, developers
New Delhi: Photo-messaging app Snapchat on Thursday announced an investment of $3.5 million to expand its support for Augmented Reality (AR) creators and developers on its platform. According to the…
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Snapchat testing new feature to take on TikTok
San Francisco: Photo-messaging app Snapchat has started testing a new feature that lets users set their Snaps with music, similar to what Chinese short-video making app TikTok offers. Snap, the…
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Gmail, Snapchat and Nest restored after brief outage
London: Gmail, Snapchat and the smart home device Nest were officially back up on Thursday after suffering a brief outage on Googles Cloud Platform. The outage led to emails failing…
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Instagram now working on disappearing text messages
San Francisco: Facebook-owned Instagram is also working on a Snapchat like ephemeral ‘Stories’ feature where users can let their posts disappear in some time. First spotted by reverse engineering specialist Jane…
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LinkedIn is testing Snapchat-like Stories for professionals
California: LinkedIn may soon introduce Snapchat-like stories on its platform. Pete Davies, head of content products at LinkedIn, wrote in an official blog that Stories “offer a lightweight, fun way…
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1 in 6 young drivers use Snapchat while driving: Study
Sydney: While people do not pay heed not to use smartphones while behind the wheels, Snapchat has emerged as the biggest culprit, with researchers now reporting that one in six…
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Snapchat down again globally
San Francisco: Popular photo-messaging app Snapchat suffered a major outage on Monday, with users saying they were unable to send snaps to their friends and family members. At least 15,000 people…
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Publication Slammed for Snapchat Story on Teen Abortions
New Delhi: Popular publication Teen Vogue faced the wrath of social media users after it posted a Snapchat story instructing pregnant teenagers how to obtain abortions irrespective of their parents’…
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It is love that binds friends on Snapchat in India
New Delhi: Love is central to friendship on Snapchat in India and the country is among few that hosts large friend groups on the photo-messaging app, the company said on…
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Snapchat working on adding support of events on app
San Francisco: Competing with a similiar functionality available on Facebook, photo-messaging app Snapchat is working on integrating support for events into its services. The unannounced feature was spotted in Snapchat’s…
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Instagram suffers another global outage, reason unknown
San Francisco: Facebook-owned photo messaging app Instagram suffered a major global outage that hindered app logins, page refreshes, commenting on posts and uploading content on the platform. Users started experiencing…
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Google apps, Snapchat suffer major outage, recover
San Francisco: Google apps like YouTube, Gmail and Nest along with photo-messaging app Snapchat and other web services suffered major outages across the US and some parts of Europe. The…
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Snapchat to let users add music to their posts
San Francisco: Competing with the likes of Instagram, photo-messaging app Snapchat is planning to let users add music to their posts on the platform. According to The Wall Street Journal,…
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Snapchat employees abused users’ private data: Report
San Francisco: Workers across several departments at photo-messasing platform Snapchat who have privileged access to users’ data spied on them for years, a Motherboard report has claimed. These employees used…
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Instagram quietly overhauls IGTV interface to take on TikTok, Snapchat
California: The battle of the best between Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat continues to intensify. In its latest effort at keeping user interest alive, Facebook-owned Instagram has quietly redesigned IGTV’s interface…
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Instagram implies TikTok, Snapchat ideas on IGTV
San Francisco: Desperate to promote its IGTV feature for posting longer videos, Facebook-owned photo-video sharing app Instagram is now copying TikTok and Snapchat with their use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
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Snapchat to let users play as Bitmoji in games
San Francisco: Popular photo-messaging app Snapchat will now let its users play as their “Snapchat Bitmoji” avatar in a wide variety of video games as the company has unveiled a…
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Snapchat adds 4 mn users, beats revenue estimates
San Francisco: Photo-messaging app Snapchat added four million new users in the first quarter of 2019, registering a revenue of $320 million — up 39 per cent (year-over-year) — thus…
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Snapchat launches tools for voters ahead of LS polls
New Delhi: Aiming to encourage people ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, photo-messaging app Snapchat on Wednesday announced the launch of tools and polling information for Indian voters. Educating…
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Snapchat releases its rebuilt app for Android
San Francisco: Photo-messaging app Snapchat has finally released its rebuilt app for Android users in a bid to bring performance for the Android version up to par with the iOS…
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Snapchat testing Status, Mention, Snap Map features
San Francisco: Photo-messaging app Snapchat is testing new features including a traditional social networking feature offering ‘Status’ option — its own version of Instagram-like “@Mention” stickers along with a new…
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Snapchat planning to launch in-app gaming platform
San Francisco: Photo-messaging app Snapchat is planning to announce its in-app gaming platform codenamed “Project Cognac” during its first-ever summit for content and developer partners on April 4 in Los…
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Twitter working on Snapchat-like camera feature: Report
San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has reportedly been developing a “News Camera” functionality that would allow users to add captions to photos, videos and live broadcasts – Snapchat-style. “Twitter’s new…
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Snapchat losses stabilised, stocks soar
Washington: It seems like after two straight quarters of bleeding users, Snapchat’s losses have stabilised. The app might not have added any users last quarter, but it didn’t lose any…
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