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Snapchat touches 100 mn users in India, eyes more localised experiences

Snapchat on Wednesday said the company will continue to anchor its efforts towards growing and providing more resources to its community of Indian creators

YouTube, TikTok, Snap executives face senators on kids' safety

The three platforms are woven into the fabric of young people's lives, often influencing their dress, dance moves and diet, potentially to the point of obsession

Snapchat suffers outage, users can't post or send messages

Popular social media app Snapchat went down globally on Wednesday evening and several users were unable to post story updates or send messages

Snapchat was the biggest winner the day Facebook's services went down

Facebook blamed network configuration glitches for immobilizing a suite of apps from Messenger to Instagram and driving some of its 2.7 billion daily users to the competition

Snapchat launches portal to encourage users toward political campaigns

Popular social media app Snapchat has announced a new "Run for Office" in-app tool to encourage young adults to run for local office in the US

Facebook's smart glasses can take calls and photos, lack augmented reality

The social network on Thursday showed off the glasses, called Ray-Ban Stories -- a direct rival to Snapchat's Spectacles.

Snapchat new lenses to help users train like Olympians

Popular social media platform Snapchat on Friday announced that the official Olympics account on the platform will have an innovative Augmented Reality (AR) Lens

WhatsApp testing 'View Once' feature for disappearing photos, videos

This is similar to snaps on Snapchat

Snapchat removes Speed Filter feature that 'encouraged' reckless driving

Popular social media platform Snapchat is removing a feature known as the "Speed Filter" that lets users capture how fast they are driving and then share it with friends

Snapchat hits 500 mn monthly active users; India sees 100% user growth

Popular social media platform Snapchat has reached over 500 million monthly active users, with roughly 40 per cent of its community located outside of North America and Europe

Snapchat's TikTok clone 'Spotlight' launched in India

Snapchat on Tuesday launched its new entertainment platform 'Spotlight' for user-generated content in India

Snapchat users top 60 mn in India; over 150% growth in daily active users

Snap Inc Managing Director (International Markets) Nana Murugesan said the company aims to continue building on the growth momentum across product development

Apple iPhone 12 mini sales slow as smaller smartphones lose appeal: Report

Smartphone users have switched to larger devices in recent years as they devour more video content on-the-go and binge on visually rich social media platforms like Facebook, Insta, Tiktok and Snapchat

TikTok rival Snapchat Spotlight crosses 100 mn monthly users in January

Snapchat launched in-app Spotlight has seen the platform growing to over 100 million monthly active users in January

Snapchat permanently bans President Donald Trump over US Capitol attack

Snapchat has decided to permanently ban US President Donald Trump's account over his role in inciting the Capitol violence

As tech giants banish Donald Trump, here's the next big question

Major tech platforms have shown him the door in the wake of his incitement of violence by supporters at the US Capitol on January 6. He's gone from Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat even Shopify

Twitter announces integration with Snapchat, to allow sharing tweets

Till date, one had to take a screenshot of the tweet and then share that on the photo-sharing platform Snapchat

Snapchat announces $3.5mn fund to expand support for creators, developers

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.

Snapchat launches feature 'Spotlight' to take on TikTok, Instagram

Users, who could previously share snaps or stories with friends, can now share them directly to Spotlight and garner more followers

Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy share $2.7 billion windfall

The company reported better-than-expected results as the coronavirus pandemic boosted usage of its app