Rihanna Cost Snapchat Almost $1 Billion Over Their Offensive Ad
Snapchat's stock price fell 5% last night, after Rihanna criticized the company for running an offensive ad on their platform that made light of the violence she suffered at the hands of Christ Brown in 2009. That drop represents almost a billion dollars in lost stock value, according to Reuters. …
Snapchat Stock Drops $800 Million USD After Rihanna Responds to Offensive Ad
Rihanna is the latest celebrity to cause Snapchat's stocks to drop. Earlier this week, the singer/actress tore into the app for allowing an offensive ad to appear on its platform. The ad, which made light of domestic violence, was for a game called “Would You Rather?” and presented users with …
Snapchat has now lost close to $1 billion over Rihanna
Remember when Rihanna tweeted "every tongue that rises up against me shall fall" back in 2012? You can't say she didn't warn Snapchat. The app has faced major losses following Rihanna's response to an approved advertisement that implied domestic violence. Now, details are emerging as to just … Read More
Lions Club celebrates 25th anniversary of the Bunny Breakfast
FILE PHOTO: Children are entetained by a juggler during the annual Bunny Breakfast hosted by the Midland Northside Lions Club on April 8, 2017, at Midland Park Mall. James Durbin/Reporter-Telegram. FILE PHOTO: Children are entetained by a juggler during the annual Bunny Breakfast hosted by … Read More
Keller expanding public arts as part of $4.25 million in Old Town improvements
Now, the city is growing its Old Town rotating sculpture program this spring. Six new pieces will join the five existing sculptures as part of $4.25 million in recent improvements to the area. The five currently in place were installed last year within a six-block radius south of Keller Parkway …
Sam Tsui Reveals How Nick Jonas & Carly Rae Jepsen Inspired His New Album ‘TRUST’
The fact that I got my start on YouTube and put up so much content on that platform is the reason why I'm able to produce. You have to learn to do everything when you're making your own content. In this day and age, you have to know how to …
Introducing 4K Video Downloader, an ultimate YouTube downloading program
The demand for downloading multimedia has started and been growing ever since first video, audio and picture-broadcasting and distribution platforms gained popularity. Even today only a limited number of such services provide the ability to download content for personal use. The development … Read More
YouTube Deputizes Wikipedia in Bid to Police ‘Conspiracy Theories’
The move by YouTube – a Google-owned property that popularized on-demand streaming videos about an endless number of subjects, ranging from cereal unboxing reviews to Hollow-Earth theories and academic symposiums – is the latest salvo from Silicon Valley against what it deems “fake news” … Read More
Village Global raises $100M seed scout fund from Zuck, Bezos…
In exchange for equity, portfolio companies get investment plus mentorship from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Microsoft's BIll Gates, Google's Eric Schmidt, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, Disney's Bob Iger, VMWare's Diane Green, NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg, and more. Village Global … Read More
This Instagram from Rihanna cost Snapchat 800 million dollars.
Rihanna, whether she knew her power over the stock market or not, got justice when her Instagram story calling out Snapchat for making a "fun" poll about her domestic abuse cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. She joins Kylie Jenner as a force affecting Snap Inc.'s shares. Let's …