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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 had announced plans for the update after an embarassing security breach which exposed 4.6

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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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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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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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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 22, 2014

Venice, California-based Snapchat seems to have learned its lesson from its recent security breach , and has proactively added a new CAPTCHA feature -- asking new users to select images containing its trademark ghost to prove they are human, and not a machine when creating an account. The new feature rolled out Tuesday. 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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JANUARY 29, 2016

Los Angeles-based Naritiv , a new startup developing a network of content creators for Snapchat, has raised $3M in a funding round, the company said Thursday. The startup--founded by Dan Altmann and Eric Posen--says it is enabling the creation of mobile-first content for Snapchat and other social network platforms.

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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. Evan Spiegal , the 24-year old CEO of Snapchat, was the youngest billionaire on the list, wiith an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion, ranked at #1250. billion net worth.

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APRIL 14, 2015

It should not be a surprise to users of Snapchat , however, a new report confirms that the majority of Snapchat''s audience are Millenials. comScore aid it found that Snapchat was the youngest social network among the ones it tracks. According to the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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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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APRIL 11, 2014

A valuation of $5 billion puts Tinder''s worth above the $3 billion offer that Snapchat rejected last year from Facebook. tinder venture capital investment social networking dating mobile snapchat' IAC"s Barry Diller said that investors have been "banging through our doors" trying to buy a piece of Tinder. 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. Snapchat is in the midst of an IPO effort being led by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 23, 2018

Esports One raises $3 million to help viewers make sense of e-sports competitions; Snapchat to let users share content on other social networks; and Boring Co. pitches Culver City Council on tunneling plan.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Hardworkers : a professional network for blue-collar workers. SketchAR : an augmented reality drawing app with social tie-ins. SketchAR : an augmented reality drawing app with social tie-ins. TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning. Veam : a social network built around AirDrop.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Eventually, Nigam sees the company expanding into a full-fledged social network, which he said Gen Z is “starving for.” ” He views Facebook and Snapchat primarily as messaging apps and said Instagram is having an “identity crisis.”

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MARCH 5, 2014

Aclipsa is taking aim at the popularity of instant messaging service Snapchat, which gained some of its initial traction from users using the app for "sexting", the practice of sending suggestive images via mobile apps and texts. READ MORE>>. zipaclip sexting mobile android instant messaging'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

Where are the young social media users going? They are going to Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Snapchat. TikTok is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. When the glass is only.04% 04% full, you should start looking for a new container.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

the parent company of Snapchat , was paid $637.8M Evan Spiegel , the CEO of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , 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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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Santa Monica-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat, reported its results on Tuesday afternoon, saying that its fourth quarter revenues were up 36 percent to a record, $390M. However, the company is still posting big losses, saying it had a net loss of $191.7M on its quarter, which ended December 31, 2018. Snap reported revenues of $1.18

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Where are the young social media users going? They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. When the glass is only.04% You need influencers more than advocates.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. It doesn’t take a huge leap to see how well the VC industry is positioned for the immediate future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Where are the young social media users going? They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. When the glass is only.04% You need influencers more than advocates.

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Tech.Co

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. Snapchat Stories are an easy way to send your friend a birthday wish. Doppels also gives others the opportunity to send you a note or gift tailored to your interests. How great is that?!

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

We have a couple of thousand retailers and a product catalog of 80 million products, and every day, people are posting their photos and videos to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter. They are texting their friends about the sunglasses they love, the shoes they love, the tennis racket they use.

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JULY 23, 2013

No, not Snapchat--it''s Tinder --a mobile app and service which lets users rate people nearby them, and if the feeling is mutual, connect them. Justin Mateen: The vision for Tinder, is about social discovery. There are plenty of other social networks out there, who do a good job of connecting you with your existing network of friends.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2014

What ON does differently is take the best parts of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Tinder and roll into one social media platform. It takes a page from both Instagram and Snapchat when taking a photo and with the options of drawing, adding filters and captions to a picture.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. We had all been talking about how this object in the middle of a social network was being very important, with Gripe and Cheer built around those objects.

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JULY 20, 2015

In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. We had all been talking about how this object in the middle of a social network was being very important, with Gripe and Cheer built around those objects.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2019

The company unveiled a series of new strategies that are aimed at breathing fresh life into the service which has been ruthlessly cloned by Facebook across Instagram, WhatsApp, and even its primary social network. The result? Snap has consistently lost users since going public in 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

On the one hand it denied Facebook from enormous amounts of web traffic that Google controlled at the time but in the longer-run due to network effects of social networks it made Facebook significantly more powerful. What are the chances that SnapChat or WhatsApp would emerge without getting crushed like a bug?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Where are the young social media users going? They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Kik, and other applications. By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. When the glass is only.04% 04% full, you should start looking for a new container.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Publishers will be able to directly sell their own display ads and keep 100% of the revenue and utilize Facebook’s Audience Network , their programmatic ad network (which considering the user-data Facebook has, is killer). Of course, just like any other update, there will be winners and losers depending on how you play the game.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Similar to when Snapchat got rid of the “hold to view” function , or how Facebook routinely shifts and evolves its newsfeed algorithm, if Twitter can move on from what used to define it and create a new space, it could have a bright future. When you’re the fourth place network, things aren’t going great.

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JUNE 27, 2017

The United States saw a big bump in IPOs in the first half of 2017, according to a report from E&Y issued on Tuesday afternoon. According to the EY Global IPO Trends: Q2 2017 report, there has been "brisk" IPO activity globally, in what the report says is "one of its strongest starts in nearly a decade."

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AUGUST 11, 2017

in cash for Zenly , the developer of a location-based social media app, in May, the company disclosed in its quarterly results on Thursday. Los Angeles-based Snap Inc. paid $213.3M Snap said it paid $196.1M in purchase consideration, including $186.8M in cash paid to sellers, $9.3M in liabilities due to sellers, and $17.2M

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