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Snapchat slows down hiring, to only hire 500 more people this year

CEO Evan Spiegel told employees that company plans to hire 500 people this year, versus 2,000 it hired over past 12 months, after warning investors that its revenue wouldn't grow as fast as expected

Top headlines: Govt may restrict sugar exports; Snap shares fall 30%

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Snap shares fall after cutting forecast, shock spreads to rivals

Social media stocks were on course to shed more than $100 billion in market value following Snap's announcement

At 33.2 cr users, Snapchat growing faster than Facebook, Twitter

Social media platform Snapchat is growing faster than Facebook and Twitter and in its latest quarterly report, the platform said it grew its daily active users (DAUs) 18 per cent to 332 crores.

On Android, YouTube Music users can now share songs with Snapchat

Snapchat sharing for YouTube Music was enabled on iOS in October and now a new report has claimed that it is available on Android.

Snapchat turns off public heatmap as a safety precaution in Ukraine: Report

The Snap Map displays a colour code to show how many people are posting public images in an area. In practice, that means you can get a good idea of where Snapchat users are concentrated

Snapchat utilising India learnings to tap into new markets: CEO Spiegel

'Our expansion efforts in India continue to prove successful, and we are using our learnings to inform how we approach community growth in new geographies,' he said

Snap and Pinterest stocks soar after results dispel Facebook fears

Both companies topped Wall Street predictions with sales and earnings, with Snap even posting a surprise profit -- its first as a publicly held business

TikTok is the future of social media, agree Meta, Snapchat

In an earnings call, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said that less time is being spent watching Stories from friends on Snapchat

Google Cloud, Snapchat, Spotify come back online after brief global outage

Multiple social media apps such as Snapchat, Spotify and Alphabet's Google Cloud appeared to be coming back online after a brief global outage on Tuesday.

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