December 19th, 2018
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...
October 26th, 2018The parent company of the photo messaging app Snapchat called Snap Inc has announced the appointment of Amazon's head of advertising Jeremi Gorman as its chief business officer. Along with him, HuffPost media company Chief Executive Jared Grusd will also join as the chief strategy officer.
The moves were disclosed in an internal...
October 13th, 2018The photo-messaging mobile application Instagram that is owned by Facebook is reportedly testing "tapping" as a replacement of scrolling through posts on the platform. The social firm is testing the tap-to-advance feature to navigate between posts in the Explore section of the app.
"We're always testing ways to improve the experience on...
August 30th, 2018With 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 long...
July 10th, 2018The 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...
May 31st, 2018Photo 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...
May 29th, 2018The 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 sounds...
May 3rd, 2018Facebook 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...
March 10th, 2018Snapchat 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 investors to reduce...
February 14th, 2018Snapchat, a widely used image messaging and multimedia mobile application is facing a major re-approval from its users over its redesign. Last week, Snapchat updated its features and changed the whole platform to target its revenue rates. Since then, the users have bombarded Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc asking Snapchat to reverse the...
October 11th, 2017Snap 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...
Social Media Platform Snapchat has recently blocked Al Jazeera, a well-known Qatari broadcaster from its app in Saudi Arabia at the request of Saudi authorities, the company said on Sunday.
Saudi...
