Carnival Cruise Line convinced a Virginia teen to trade in his Snapchat handle — in exchange for an all-expenses-paid trip for his family, according to a new report. Darian Lipscomb, 15, of Prospect, is a Carnival enthusiast who has had dibs on the Snapchat handle @CarnivalCruise for six years, The … …

Six years ago, a 9-year-old boy named Darian Lipscomb went on a Carnival cruise. To share the experience with his friends, he made his Snapchat handle @CarnivalCruise. Via Snapchat, Lipscomb shared videos of himself tubing and zip lining across the cruise ship. Over the years, he has gone on … Read …

Carnival Cruise Line has convinced a US teenager to exchange his Snapchat handle for a free family cruise. The company surprised 15-year-old Darian Lipscomb at his home in Prospect, Virginia, on the hunt for his @CarnivalCruise handle. They located the teenager after putting up signs across the … Read More

PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, Va. — A Virginia teen certainly played his cards right when he created a Snapchat handle named after Carnival Cruise Lines. Darian Lipscomb, 16, considers himself a super fan of the cruise ships. Lipscomb has been cruising since he could walk and has already sailed on … Read …

Snap Inc., the company behind video messaging app Snapchat, said Thursday it was cutting about 100 workers, its second round of layoffs in less than a … The layoffs come after several high-profile executive departures and months of criticism about a recent Snapchat redesign, one that celebrities … Read More

A Virginia teen certainly played his cards right when he created a Snapchat handle named after Carnival Cruise Lines. Darian Lipscomb, 16 … So they made Lipscomb an offer hard to refuse —a free voyage aboard Carnival's newest ship, in exchange for the @CarnivalCruise Snapchat handle. Read More

Layoffs never look good at a company, and for Snapchat, it comes at a time when celebrities like Chrissy Teigen have abandoned the app. Teigen took issue with Snapchat's regrettable decision to run an insensitive ad asking users to "slap Rihanna" or "punch Chris Brown." Other high-profiles uses like … Read …

"Hack alert!" – filmmaker Ali Abbas Zafar tweeted on Thursday morning. The 37-year-old director's Instagram account appears to have been hacked and the process to recover the account is already underway, tweeted Mr Zafar. In his tweet, he also added that he is not on Snapchat and hence, any profile … …

What value is a young man's name? About £3,500 or a family trip on a cruise liner, it seems. The world's largest cruise company has persuaded a 15-year-old boy to sell them his Snapchat handle after they discovered that his online identity was . . . @CarnivalCruise. The first time …

snapchat-logo. CREDIT: Snap. Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, is handing out the pink slips again: It's laying off about 100 employees, with the sales staff bearing the brunt of the cuts. Snap confirmed the layoffs, first reported by Bloomberg. It's the social media and messaging company's latest … Read More