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ShareChat raises $502 Mn from Snapchat, Twitter & others

ShareChat has raised USD 502 million in funding to further expand its operation in India and US.

Snapchat Launches its First Indian Snap Lens for Shah Rukh Khan Starrer Movie

The popular photo sharing social platform Snapchat has partnered Red Chillies Entertainment and has reportedly launched its first Indian Augmented Reality (AR) Lens for a film in India. This lens has been introduced ahead of the release of Shah Rukh Khan starrer Zero on December 21. The lens went on Tuesday and will be available through December 22. It will […]

Snapchat Defeats Facebook’s & Instagram’s User Base in the USA

With the tough fight among the social media giants including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat etc, it has always been the primary motive of these companies to target the teenagers as most of the user base of the social media platforms comes from the teens. Though Instagram and Facebook have been prevailing in the market since a […]

Snapchat’s Camera Soon May Help Users To Shop on Amazon

The popular photo-social media application Snapchat is supposedly working with the e-commerce major Amazon with the aim to launch a feature that would allow the app’s camera to identify objects within the app and pull up information about them along with the e-commerce facts and listings from Amazon. This latest feature is expected to be […]

Snapchat Partners with Tyroo For Sales & Support in India

Photo Messaging Platform Snapchat has entered into a partnership with ad technology platform Tyroo, a move focused to drive its ad monetisation in India as informed by the company on Wednesday. Under the strategic agreement, Smile Group Company, Tyroo will manage sales and support for all Snapchat products in India. The company is also establishing a […]

Snapchat Introduces its All New Sound Reacting Lens

The multimedia messaging app ‘Snapchat’ has reportedly introduced its first-ever lens that will not only react to what it sees but also to the sound. The lens will produce a cute animal face overlay with moveable eyes and ears that pulse and glimmer, depending on the sound. However, Snapchat has yet not revealed exactly the […]

WhatsApp “Status” Feature Hits 450 Million Users, Beating Snapchat “Stories”

Facebook was blamed for replication when it had copied the Sanpachat’s trademark “Stories” and rolled out “Status Feature” in February last year. But, today the tables have turned different as the messaging service platform, WhatsApp owned by Facebook has crossed 450 million daily active user base worldwide. Snapchat currently holds 191 million daily user base […]

Singer Rihanna Slammed Messaging app Snapchat

American leading Singer Rihanna slammed Snapchat, a messaging app over an advertisement that promotes domestic violence and showed her assault by her former boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009 in an advertisement to promote the company. The Snapchat advertisement, made for the promotion of the mobile game Would You Rather? asked users which of the artists they […]

Snapchat Will Sack More than 120 Engineers

Snapchat parent company, Snap Inc, sent a memo to employees on Thursday stating they were going to lay off 120 engineers from their team and reorganize it, according to Reuters. The maker of the smartphone app popular for disappearing images has had a rough start to the year 2018 and are now under pressure from […]

Looking For An Uber? Book It Through Snapchat’s ‘Context Cards’

Snap Inc’s Snapchat on Tuesday introduced “context cards”, a new feature that will allow users to book an Uber ride or reserve a seat at a restaurant without leaving the messaging app. The new feature is aimed at increasing the time a user spends on the app by providing contextual location-based search, potentially helping the […]