Update: Snap closed its first day of trading at $24.48 per share, up 44 percent from its initial offering price of $17. Original story: Snap Inc. shares started trading at $24… 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
Don’t fret about finding the perfect photo from the party for your Instagram; you can now upload an entire gallery instead. The social media app on Wednesday announced a new… 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
The Spectacles have made their way to Daytona. NASCAR will use Snap’s new camera sunglasses this weekend at the Daytona 500 in Florida to give fans a behind-the-scenes look at… 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
They’re here! Snapchat’s mysterious vending machine, the “Snapbot,” finally made an appearance in Seattle this week. The machines are the only places where people can buy the company’s Spectacles, glasses… Read More
“Saturday Night Live” has been riding a wave of success on television this season thanks to the material the show mined from the campaign season and now President Donald Trump. On Friday,… 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
A high school junior called her mom from class to come pick her up. A college nursing student bolted out of a lab. Two workers from a “Redmond tech giant”… Read More
Snap’s much-hyped Spectacles have landed in Seattle. The Twitter account for the camera glasses posted a photo on Wednesday of the bright yellow Spectacles vending machine outside Dick’s Drive In… Read More
Snap Inc. disclosed a major contract to use Google Cloud Platform as part of its $3 billion IPO filing today. RELATED As it files for IPO, Snap Inc. warns that Brexit and… Read More
When (newly-public) Snapchat first arrived on the scene, its self-destructing messages felt like a game-changer. Finally, a way to send anything you want with the liberating knowledge that it’ll be… Read More
Despite calling Los Angeles’ Venice Beach boardwalk home, Snap Inc., the parent of popular social media app Snapchat, is concerned about how foreign governments could harm its business. In its… Read More
Snapchat’s parent Snap Inc. has reportedly chosen the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for its initial public offering, which it’s expected to publicly file for later this week. CNBC… Read More
Instagram will officially roll out its live video feature to global users over the next week, the social media company announced on Tuesday. The feature, which was originally announced in November and… Read More
Amazon, with its more than 300,000 global employees, has emerged as one of the world’s corporate powerhouses. But the company’s impact is especially evident in its hometown of Seattle, where its growth has ignited a construction… Read More
It was quite a week for Seattle’s commercial real estate world. Snap Inc., the parent company of popular messaging app Snapchat, became the latest California tech company to make Seattle… Read More
Snap Inc., the company behind the hit Snapchat app, is poised to significantly grow the footprint of its Seattle engineering office, GeekWire has learned. Multiple sources with knowledge of the building and the… Read More
Anybody can resolve to exercise more and eat better. But religiously backing up your data to the cloud? That’s true commitment. It’s almost New Year’s resolution time, and for anyone in need… Read More
Can Google Home take on Amazon Echo? Can Nintendo make a console comeback? And can Snapchat make you wear goofy glasses? We ponder all of those questions this week, as we go hand-on… Read More
Remember when rock stars wore sunglasses to look cool? Or to hide the lingering side effects of being a rock star? Now they wear them to shoot video — of… Read More
https://youtu.be/y94yqjm9Bvg The Spectacles made it into the sports world. Snap Inc., formerly known as Snapchat, has caused a stir with its new camera-embedded sunglasses that are only available on a limited… Read More
Snap Inc., the company that operates blockbuster messaging app Snapchat, is in the process of filing for an initial public offering, according to The Wall Street Journal. WSJ initially reported Snap’s… Read More
The debut of Snap Inc.’s camera-equipped sunglasses was exactly what you’d expect from the Los Angeles company: Unorthodox, viral, and a little too much. Spectacles went on sale Thursday from a… Read More
If you were the 26-year-old billionaire CEO of a company built on disappearing chat messages, who was simultaneously engaged to a supermodel, you’d see the world through rose-colored video-recording sunglasses,… Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bd8fOIIxQo Nicki Minaj will not be played by a man who doesn’t have unlimited data. That’s the message in a quick and fun new T-Mobile ad that features the hip-hop star… Read More
Games have made their way into Snapchat. Gatorade today unveiled Serena Williams Match Point, a simple 8-bit game that can be played directly within the Snapchat app via ESPN’s Discover… Read More
In a bid to attract or hold onto users who want to share less-stylized images from their daily lives, Instagram today introduced Stories, a new photo-and-video-sharing feature that borrows heavily… Read More