Some of the biggest viral Internet sensations this year have been apps like Gradient and Face App that use an image of someone’s face to either dramatically age them or show how closely they resemble someone else’s face. Indeed, social media feeds got taken over almost overnight by the success of both apps, particularly Face …
A new report from Motherboard reveals that Snap employees in the past have abused internal tools in order to glean information about user emails, user location data, and other types of sensitive data. What’s particularly worrisome is that some Snap employees were said to have used these tools to take a look at photos and …
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, announced at its Partner Summit on Thursday that games are being rolled out for the popular mobile app. The new initiative — appropriately titled Snap Games — features a variety of multiplayer titles built exclusively for the social service, including a title developed by Snap called Bitmoji Party. Inspired by …
After being hampered by stagnant growth as its rivals relentlessly copy and repurpose its core features, the next era in the story of Snapchat is apparently at hand. And it will have gaming at its core. The popular ephemeral messaging app is reportedly set to host a summit for content creators and developers in Los …
There apparently exists, in developed Western countries, a not insignificant number of people so enamored with the way social apps like Snapchat and Instagram make them appear, that these people are going to actual doctors with an actual, serious request: Please make me look more like I do in this Snapchat selfie. If that means …
Facebook is fighting off hackers trying to influence elections yet again, dealing with Wall Street having to adjust its expectations for the company after last week’s glum earnings forecast for the rest of the year and rolling out major new updates across its app empire. So the social media giant, needless to say, may have …
Word of a new Snapchat camera feature in the works — which would let users scan products and send them to Amazon listings — sent the social media company’s stock trading 3 percent higher Monday. That was after a TechCrunch report about the development of the feature, which would turn the camera into what’s essentially a …
The parent company of Snapchat is working on something new, along the lines of this AR “game” I’ve swiped across a few different lenses in the app to get to — past the morbidly obese cat dancing to some jams, past the lens that gives me a goatee. It’s one of those games to the …
It was just a few weeks ago, during an onstage interview at the Code Conference, when Snap CEO Evan Spiegel zinged the blue juggernaut that’s haunted his company with this line: “We would really appreciate it if they copied our data protection practices also.” Ouch. The dynamic between the two companies, of course, has seen …
Facebook may have a large number of active users which make it the largest social network in the world, but that doesn’t mean everybody gets their social fix from Facebook first. A new Pew study spells trouble for Facebook, as it reveals teens don’t really do Facebook anymore. Not as they used to. Instead, they …
