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The Snapchat Versus Instagram War Is Bad News for Snap Inc Stock

You can cheat the fundamentals for a while, but eventually, they'll come back to bite you. That's the lesson investors should learn from Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP). While its Snapchat app has proven consistently popular with the young, college-aged demographic, SNAP stock is another story. It got off to a … Read …

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‘This is an insult to a whole race’: Cop is fired for ‘racially-charged’ Snapchat post where he boasted …

A Florida police officer has been fired after he shared a racially inflammatory image on Snapchat. Matthew Moriarty, 24, was terminated from the Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety on Wednesday after working there for two and a half years. The former cop appeared to mock Black … Read More

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Snap roundup: Snapchat is teens’ fave… Spectacles to stage comeback

The Snapchat parent filed paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission for a “wearable video camera, 002.” Details are scarce in the heavily redacted documents, but the second-generation video sunglasses would have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capability, and would move the FCC ID label from … Read More

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Snap Is Testing A New Way To Buy Products In Snapchat Discover And It’s Pretty Nifty

Snap is testing a new feature in its Snapchat app under the Discover section which will let you easily buy products. The method chosen is pretty nifty and obviously new when it comes to purchasing products. Buying a product through the Snapchat Discover feature will be as easy as swiping …

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Snapchat looks to offer new e-commerce options for Discover Publishers

Snapchat is testing an e-commerce option on some of its Discover publisher channels. The feature will allow users to swipe on a product and then purchase it within the Snap Store, an in-app shopping section Snapchat launched in February. The Snap Store sells Snapchat merchandise, such as hats, … Read More

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Truth or Dare is cheap horror seen through a vaguely disconcerting Snapchat filter

The film's circular logic might have been forgivable if Truth or Dare had committed to the aesthetic adventurousness revealed in the film's opening credits: comprised of various character's Snapchat stories. Overall, though, the film has the sleek veneer of a second-rate CW show (its aesthetic soul lies … Read More

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Show your fandom with Tampa Bay Lightning Snapchat filter

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Tampa Bay Lightning will be sparking quite a thunderstorm with fans cheering them on tonight. We know there are tons of cool things happening around our area to celebrate the Bolts from the free giveaways to the fun pep-rallies. To make …

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Facebook vs. Snapchat: What’s Next for Third-Party Distribution?

Panelists included: Brian Madden, SVP of Developmen for Hearst Digital Media, who shared that, at one point, Cosmopolitan's Snapchat discover channel was actually driving more traffic than the publication's own website and Maia McCann, Editor-in-Chief & EVP of Programming at Little Things, who … Read More

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Instagram tests scannable Nametags, taking another page from Snapchat’s playbook

Instagram tests scannable Nametags, taking another page from Snapchat's playbook. Similar to Snapchat's Snapcodes, Nametags will allow users to create a scannable image that makes it easier to gain followers. Amy Gesenhues on April 12, 2018 at 2:16 pm. More. It appears Instagram is once again … Read More

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Report: Snapchat experiments with commerce for publishers

Snap began tests of an e-commerce function in several Snapchat Discover publisher channels, unnamed sources told Digiday. The option lets users swipe up to buy products from a virtual storefront inside Discover that also offers Snapchat-branded merchandise like sweatshirts and hats. A source told … Read More