Snapchat is following the mobile gaming lead of WeChat and Facebook Messenger by adding games to Snapchat as it tries to puts failures of 2018 behind it. Snap is hoping to tap the £54bn ($70bn) mobile gaming market, when Apple, Google, Tencent and Microsoft are all making new bids for developers’ and players attentions. The…
21-year-old Kylie Jenner has become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire according to Forbe’s billionaires’ list. The youngest Kardashian family member made her fortune from her best-selling cosmetics business promoted by Instagram postings with over 128m followers. She made her announcement ” I wanted to remind you guys that my powders launch on Thursday” and proceeded…
WhatsApp owned by Facebook which has more than 201m users in India, making the country its largest market by far has been under growing pressure from India and Australia to find ways to clamp down fake news, inflammatory and incendiary rumours circulating through its systems, especially after a series of lynch mobbings by crowds of…
In Zuboff ‘s view Google’s original aim of making all the world’s information accessible mutated into a ruthless domineering to make money by exploiting and modifying human behaviour, by serving up ads to users just when they are most susceptible to persuasion and generating wants they did not know they had. Google is following a…
Snapchat is today launching new lenses that respond to voice commands. Snapchat is rolling out a series of lenses that will animate when users speak simple English world like “hi’’ , “love’, “yes”, “no” and “wow”, as opposed to taking some other action like opening their mouth or raising their eyebrows. By saying “HI” in…
Rihanna was the subject of an advert on the Snapchat which asked users if they would “rather slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown”, which appeared for a game to reference Chris Brown’s conviction for assaulting Rihanna in 2009 while they were dating. Snap Inc says the ad “ never should have appeared on our service.…
Seven-year-old Snapchat is a conundrum for people over 30. Billy Gallaher captures the appeal of the Snapchat but fails to exert the secrecy of how a photo-messaging app with a definite reputation as sexting tool rose to become a $22bn public company used by 187 million people daily. Snapchat is an image messaging…
Sociologist, Donna Freitas after interviewing 200 students from 13 US colleges about their social media addictions, writes in her latest book, “Students express near universal adoration of Snapchat. They can say dumb things, and take goofy, ugly photographs and parade them to other people, and can be sad, mean and negative.” Social media has…
Facebook Snapchat $ $ Market Capitalisation 395bn 31bn Funds Raised at IPO 166bn 3.4bn Daily Active users 1.3bn 160m Revenue 2016 27.6bn 404m Profit 2016 10.2bn -515m Snapchat investor who have given a market value of more than $30bn hope it can effectively compete with Facebook on online advertising. Evan Spiegel CEO of Snapchat…
Snapchat, the messaging app owners has slashed its proposed one of the largest US tech listings, as the company prepares for marketing campaign. Snap had earlier aimed for a valuation of £25bn, but a price of $14 to 416 a share is revealed in the updated regulatory filing, puts the market valuation to $16.2bn to…