Articles about snapchat

Snap cuts 95 jobs in Washington state as part of broader layoffs, pushing for AI efficiencies

Snap filed a WARN Act notice showing 95 employees affected across its Bellevue, Seattle, and Vancouver, Wash., offices as part of a restructuring that will cut about 1,000 jobs companywide. Read More

Snap acquires assets from Rec Room as social gaming platform announces shutdown

Snap has acquired select assets from Rec Room Inc., with some employees joining the Spectacles hardware subsidiary, as the Seattle-based social gaming company shuts down its platform on June 1. Read More

AWS outage hits major apps and services, resurfacing old questions about cloud redundancy

Amazon Web Services is recovering after an outage that disrupted Facebook, Snapchat, Fortnite, Coinbase and other major platforms, once again illustrating the internet’s heavy reliance on the cloud giant and a lack of redundancy in online services. Read More

Tech’s extraordinary decade: What mattered most in the past 10 years of innovation

What were the top tech stories of the past decade? I’ve been discussing this topic with others recently on LinkedIn,… Read More

Checking in with new Foursquare CEO David Shim, Seattle startup vet with big plans in location tech

David Shim’s entrepreneurial journey took a wild turn in 2019. The longtime Seattle techie sold his location analytics startup Placed… Read More

Networking issues take down Google Cloud in parts of the U.S. and Europe, YouTube and Snapchat also affected

Update 6:13pm PT: Google sounded the all-clear at 5:09 pm PT, saying that all service had been restored. Our original… Read More

Foursquare — yes, that Foursquare — just raised $150M and bought a Seattle startup owned by Snap

It’s probably been a few years since you’ve “checked in” on Foursquare at your favorite restaurant, pub or hotel. But… Read More

Snap partners with news discovery organizations to help reporters find Snapchat content

Snap is teaming up with news discovery organizations to help push user-generated out beyond the confines of its Snapchat app.… Read More

Spotify, Snapchat taken offline by networking problems at Google Cloud

Google took a turn in the cloud doghouse Tuesday afternoon, after several issues forced popular consumer sites like Spotify, Snapchat,… Read More

New research finds 95% of teens have access to a smartphone; 45% online ‘almost constantly’

Our kids are growing up behind the screens of their smartphones. What they’re looking at and how often is the… Read More

TLDR: Snap Spectacles are back, Seattle-to-Vancouver ‘nerd bird,’ Nintendo Switch

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Snap unveils next generation Spectacles, taking another shot at wearable hardware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpbyj-hz05s Snapchat parent company Snap is giving the Spectacles experiment another go. Today, the company unveiled the second generation of… Read More

TLDR: Day 2 of Zuckerberg’s testimony, protest at Amazon HQ, Snap Spectacles

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Hints of next generation Snap Spectacles camera glasses pop up in FCC filing

Snapchat parent company Snap may be gearing up to release a new version of its Spectacle video sunglasses. Overnight, an application… Read More

Snap stock soars as Snapchat parent notches 1st earnings beat as a public company

Snapchat parent company Snap beat Wall Street expectations for the first time in its fourth quarter as a public company. Shares in… Read More

Through with the looking glasses? Hype fades for Snap Spectacles as Google draws the crowd at CES

LAS VEGAS — People love the next trendy thing. Until they don’t. Just off the Strip in Las Vegas, Snap… Read More

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Broken promises and unfulfilled dreams: The biggest tech flops of 2017

Technology has its ups and downs. Sometimes new gadgets and tech devices are revolutionary and change the way we live.… Read More

Snapchat refresh aims to separate ‘the social from the media’ as parent company chases Wall Street rebound

Snapchat parent Snap has redesigned its social app to draw a clear line between users’ friends and brands that the… Read More

Seattle region has a snappy new idea to get the selfie generation to the ballot box

King County Elections designed and purchased Snapchat filters for ballot boxes around the Seattle area, anticipating the existential question of… Read More

Let’s be frank: This Snap hot dog costume could turn you into a total Hallowiener

OK, OK, I’m sorry for that headline. But if you had to write a story about an $80 Halloween costume… Read More

12th Man can dress up Blue Friday in Seattle with a Seahawks helmet filter on Snapchat

Blue Friday in Seattle usually means you or your co-workers are wearing Seattle Seahawks jerseys or some such to work… Read More

Snapchat parent Snap posts $443M net loss in 2nd quarter as public company, stock slumps 13%

Snapchat parent Snap posted a net loss of $443 million in its second quarter as a public company, sending its stock… Read More

Amazon starts selling Spectacles with snappy delivery

Snapchat parent Snap Inc. is selling its camera-enabled Spectacles on Amazon. It’s the first time the company has sold the… Read More

Snapchat parent Snap acquires location analytics startup Placed for more than $200M

Snapchat parent Snap has acquired Placed, a Seattle-based startup that operates a consumer location analytics platform, GeekWire has learned. Placed, which employs… Read More

Microsoft gives Skype a Snap-y new redesign, adds Stories-like feature and custom options

Microsoft this morning announced a redesign of Skype that will look pretty familiar to Snapchat users. Billed by the company as… Read More

The Snapchatification of Instagram continues as cute face filters are now an option on photos

https://player.vimeo.com/video/217551217 Smile if you like a golden crown or bunny ears on your head. Instagram rolled out more features Tuesday to… Read More

Snap stock craters as Snapchat parent posts huge loss in 1st quarter as public company

Snapchat parent company Snap built a reputation for secrecy, but now, as a public company, it has to lay its… Read More

With $256 billion, Apple has more cash than Amazon, Microsoft and Google combined

Apple passed a new milestone Tuesday — reporting more than $256 billion in cash and marketable securities. That’s a lot… Read More

Microsoft shows off powerful tech with ‘Sprinkles’ photo editor — but there’s no need for Snapchat to panic

Another day, another photo app targeted at teens. This time, it’s Microsoft hoping to lure Gen Z users and millennials… Read More

Apple’s new millennial-minded ‘Clips’ video-editing app could be a game-changer

Could this be a plot twist in Act Three? While we were all watching Facebook’s attempts to take on newly-public… Read More