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Snapchat brings back chronological Stories feed for some
Snapchat has undone its controversial redesign’s most significant change in an update to some users today. A tab that shows Stories in reverse chronol...

Snap reportedly bought its very own 3D game engine
Snapchat’s parent company bought a web-based 3D game engine startup out of the UK this past May, Business Insider (paywalled) reports. PlayCanva...

Snapchat is stuck in the uncanny valley of AR glasses
“Timing”, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel said cryptically when asked what the greatest threat was for Snap Inc. “I think the big ri...

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel got a $637 million bonus last year
Snap’s stock investors haven’t made much money since the company went public last year, but CEO Evan Spiegel still got a hefty payda...

New book vividly reveals Snapchat’s sexty dorm-room origin
“He wouldn’t have to worry about sending a hookup a picture of his junk! And girls would be way more likely to send him racy photos ...

Instagram is testing screenshot alerts for stories
Instagram is testing a feature that will show users when someone else takes a screenshot of their story. Users included in the test are getting ...

How Reggie Brown invented Snapchat
Why sexting and a Stanford class led a group of former fraternity brothers to create Snapchat. Read More Source link

Snapchat VP of Product Tom Conrad will disappear from tech
One of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel’s top lieutenants Tom Conrad will leave Snapchat, and the whole tech industry, in March. Coming roughly two y...

Selfie app Snow, once a Snapchat clone, raises $50M from SoftBank and Sequoia China
It’s been a while since we heard from Snow, the Snapchat clone app in Asia that Facebook once tried to buy, but today the company behind i...