Amazon is partnering with Snap for an augmented reality fashion experience that lets customers digitally try on different eyewear brands and styles and then make a purchase. The “Virtual Try-On”… Read More
— Darcie Henry, a 23-year Amazon veteran, will join Snap Inc. as chief human resources officer in July. She is currently Amazon’s vice president of HR for global consumer and… Read More
The clock is ticking on TikTok. With a Sept. 15 deadline looming on the social media sensation, technology pundits are trying to answer a multi-billion dollar question: How much should… Read More
David Shim’s entrepreneurial journey took a wild turn in 2019. The longtime Seattle techie sold his location analytics startup Placed to Snapchat parent Snap in 2017 for a reported $135… Read More
It’s probably been a few years since you’ve “checked in” on Foursquare at your favorite restaurant, pub or hotel. But the one-time popular location-based social network is still alive, and… Read More
Cloud communications firm Twilio snagged Amazon’s Chee Chew to be its chief product officer. Chew was VP of consumer engagement at Amazon, where he worked on the core retail experience.… Read More
Remitly, the Seattle-based digital remittance startup, hired its first chief people officer as it expands to more than 700 employees globally. Ayesha Pacholke, previously the executive vice president of human… Read More
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Snapchat parent company Snap is giving the Spectacles experiment another go. Today, the company unveiled the second generation of the wearable camera, with some design changes, better download speeds and… Read More
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Snapchat parent company Snap may be gearing up to release a new version of its Spectacle video sunglasses. Overnight, an application from Snap for a “wearable video camera” with the Federal… Read More
Troubles continue to plague Snap, the publicly-traded social networking company that’s failed to find a sustainable business model. Reports surfaced today that the company laid off about 100 employees on… Read More
Snapchat parent company Snap beat Wall Street expectations for the first time in its fourth quarter as a public company. Shares in the social media company spiked Tuesday, rising 22 percent in… Read More
LAS VEGAS — People love the next trendy thing. Until they don’t. Just off the Strip in Las Vegas, Snap is clinging to the hope that people will still want… Read More
Snapchat parent Snap has redesigned its social app to draw a clear line between users’ friends and brands that the company says “separates the social from the media.” The new… Read More
Did Snap fall victim to its own hype around Spectacles, the vending-machine-dispensed video sunglasses it made people line up for earlier this year? That’s the conclusion in a new report… Read More
Placed, a Seattle startup that was acquired by social media and sunglasses vendor Snap earlier this year, went for $135.1 million in cash, according to filings with the Securities and… Read More
Snapchat parent Snap posted a net loss of $443 million in its second quarter as a public company, sending its stock down 14 percent in after-hours trading Thursday. Last year at this… Read More
Snapchat parent Snap Inc. is selling its camera-enabled Spectacles on Amazon. It’s the first time the company has sold the novel sunglasses through a third-party retailer. Until now, Spectacles were… Read More
Snap just made one of its largest acquisitions to date, swooping up Seattle startup Placed for more than $200 million, as GeekWire first reported on Monday. So why did Snap,… Read More
Microsoft this morning announced a redesign of Skype that will look pretty familiar to Snapchat users. Billed by the company as the “next generation of Skype” the changes bring a host… Read More
Snapchat parent company Snap built a reputation for secrecy, but now, as a public company, it has to lay its cards on the table and open up the books to… Read More
If you tried to use any service on the internet Tuesday, you likely discovered it was down. Now we know why: a small typo in an Amazon Web Services command… Read More
Comcast-owned NBCUniversal is one of the biggest believers in Snapchat parent company Snap Inc., investing $500 million in the social media company’s IPO, according to a report from CNBC. Snap… Read More
As Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, signaling the company’s public debut, a crowd of protesters gathered outside its… Read More
Snapchat parent Snap Inc. priced its shares at $17 apiece on Wednesday, raising around $3.4 billion in its initial public offering. It’s the largest public offering for a U.S. tech company… Read More
Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. has found a new executive to lead a significant expansion of its Snap Research group: San Francisco-based computer scientist David Salesin, a computer graphics star and former… Read More
SnapBot vending machines are no longer the only place you can by Snapchat’s camera sunglasses. On Monday, Spectacles went on sale online in the U.S. for their regular $129. Since… Read More
Ten days after showing up and dispensing colorful, high-tech camera sunglasses in front of a Dick’s Drive-In restaurant, Snapchat’s Spectacles vending machine did its thing at another Seattle institution on… Read More
Snap Inc.’s Spectacles camera glasses landed in Seattle for the first time Wednesday, but one of the city’s tech giants has quietly captured a much bigger deal from the Snapchat parent… Read More