The NFL is expanding its presence on Snapchat. The league announced today that it will become the first sports league with a dedicated channel on Snapchat’s “Discover” platform, giving fans… Read More
A 14-year-old California boy and his mother are suing messaging app Snapchat over a series of explicit articles that appeared in its Snapchat Discover feature. The boy’s mother hired Mark J.… Read More
Billion-dollar unicorns like Uber and Snapchat are sucking up more investor money than ever, and early-stage startups are finding it tough to raise funds, according to a new report from Seattle-based… Read More
Is Snapchat becoming the new Facebook? That’s perhaps what the latest numbers from comScore indicate. The Wall Street Journal examined the new data, which shows 14 percent of U.S. smartphone users… Read More
Two apps competing for your continued attention are rolling out new looks as Twitter for Android and Snapchat have redesigned some features. Twitter announced in a blog post that its… Read More
The highly anticipated “2016 Internet Trends” report from Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers general partner Mary Meeker is 213 slides long. There’s a lot of info packed in there about what’s working… Read More
Amid zingers directed at everyone from Donald Trump to himself, President Barack Obama briefly mentioned two tech giants during his final White House correspondents’ dinner Saturday evening. The 40-minute monologue, which you can watch… Read More
A new lawsuit blames Snapchat, along with a teenager who was allegedly using the popular messaging app to share how fast she was driving, for an accident that left another driver in Georgia with severe… Read More
We’ve seen a huge influx of new engineering outposts in the Seattle region in recent years, as companies from Silicon Valley and elsewhere establish branches here to tap into the… Read More
If you’ve ever used Snapchat, you probably know that it doesn’t work like most social media platforms. Instead of making public posts that last indefinitely on the internet, “snaps” are sent directly… Read More
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to pump up the presidential hopes of Ohio Gov. John Kasich. The 68-year-old former “Terminator” star took to Snapchat to endorse the GOP… Read More
Major League Baseball wants its players embracing Snapchat as a way to bring fans closer to the game. The league announced Friday that as part of a new multi-year deal with mobile… Read More
Snapchat gets a bad rap as a frivolous messaging tool — driven largely by the self-destructing nature of the photos. But New York’s annual Tribeca Film Festival is bringing new… Read More
Snapchat, more commonly known by the over-30 crowd as “that sexting app,” is experiencing a meteoric rise. The app has an estimated 200 million monthly users and is the fastest-growing social… Read More
In the digital age, graphic nudity is so ubiquitous that it’s become passé, boring even. But there’s still a final frontier of sexualized content that remains surprising, alluring, and rare:… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Details on a prominent space entrepreneur’s mysterious next venture, Snapchat finds a Seattle home with room for 50 engineers, and Starbucks… Read More
Snapchat will set up its new engineering office across from Seattle’s Pike Place Market, in the same building where Facebook got its start in the city more than five years ago.… Read More
Take a walk around the University of Washington campus and you will unquestionably run into, maybe literally, a student looking down at his or her smartphone. But just how many of them are… Read More
Taking aim at a demographic that may be too young to even vote, the White House on Monday announced that it had launched an official account on Snapchat. Josh Miller, the… Read More
LAS VEGAS — The Consumer Electronics Show is known for over-the-top marketing stunts. And the biggest and boldest we’ve seen so far comes from none other than Snapchat, the fast-growing… Read More
Hey parents: You won’t believe the contracts your kids have been roped into. Like a fine print virus spreading quickly around the globe, under-aged teenagers are suddenly being shrink-wrapped into… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Amazon posts record job growth and a surprise profit, and bites back at the New York Times, two months after the publication… Read More
A small team of Snapchat engineers has been working behind a locked door and fogged glass inside a Seattle co-working space for weeks — and no one had a clue, until… Read More
Choosing the right brand name can be a make-it or break-it experience for a lot of startups. Finding something that defines your brand, gives homage to your core message and… Read More
There’s nothing hip or trendy about billboards, but that’s not stopping ultra-cool California company Snapchat from getting the word out the good old fashioned way. Snapchat has been throwing up bright yellow… Read More
View image | gettyimages.com Once upon a time, there was an exclusive club that only allowed technology companies worth $1 billion to join. While that sounds like an opening line to a… Read More
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, is reportedly interested in investing $200 million in Snapchat, which allows people to send photos knowing that they will be erased as soon as they are viewed… Read More
You may soon be able to watch live sports on Snapchat. That’s the latest update from Digiday, which reported today that Snapchat is in talks with NCAA and Turner to show live… Read More
Facebook’s popularity among the 13- to 17-year-old set dropped once again this year, according to a new report by Frank N. Magid Associates Inc. out yesterday. Users, or “people,” in… Read More
Snapchat released an update to its popular ephemeral messaging app today that enables “Snapcash,” a new service that allows friends to send money alongside their disappearing photos and messages. It’s… Read More