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Can Snapchat's New 'Snap Map' Bring The World Closer Together?

12:31pm July 06, 2017

by Angus Chen

From cute puppies in Guatemala to daring teens in Jordan, the feature lets users share video clips and photos from their daily lives. Is that a good thing — or is it just making us all voyeurs?

Snap surged Thursday in its first day of trading, with shares jumping more than 40 percent from Wednesday's IPO pricing. Among the day's big winners was a small Silicon Valley high school.

One Big Winner Of Snap's Even Bigger IPO: A School That Raked In Millions

1:14pm March 03, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

In 2012, Saint Francis High School put up $15,000 in seed money for the founders of a fledgling Snapchat. By the time the company went public Thursday, the school turned it into a $24 million return.

The banner for the Snap Inc. IPO is raised on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange. Snap Inc. is expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday under the symbol SNAP.

National

Snapchat Parent's Stock Soars By 50 Percent On First Day Of Trading

1:36pm March 02, 2017

by Doreen McCallister

After pricing its initial public offering of 200 million nonvoting shares at $17 each, Snap Inc., saw the stock rise to more than $25 a share.

Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel is taking the parent company of the Snapchat app public.

National

Snapchat, All Grown-Up: 5 Things We Learned From Snap's IPO Filing

9:22pm February 02, 2017

by Alina Selyukh

Snap — expected to be valued at more than $20 billion when it goes public — may be the first company to use the term "sexting" in an initial public offering filing with the SEC.

Uber says Snapchat will get information about the ETA, vehicle type and destination, but no private data, to create special filters for riders.

National

Uber And Snapchat Team Up To Zero In On Your Friends

6:43pm December 21, 2016

by Laura Roman

Now, if you give Uber access to your phone contacts, you could set a person, rather than a location, as a destination of your ride — and get a prompt to Snapchat the waiting friend in the meantime.

A sexual assault victim in India used this dragon Snapchat filter to protect her identity while telling her story to a journalist.

Health & Safety

How Snapchat Became A Virtual Confessional For Sexual Assault Victims

9:52am August 31, 2016

by Chhavi Sachdev

A journalist wanted to tell the stories of two rape victims while protecting their identities. How would he do it?

Social Media Abuse Of Nursing Home Residents Often Goes Unchecked

10:30am July 14, 2016

Iowa health officials recently discovered it wasn't against state law for a nursing home worker to share a photo on Snapchat of a resident covered in feces. They are trying to change that.

With 'Discover' Feature, Snapchat Bucks Social Trend In News

11:03am February 03, 2015

by Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

Snapchat says social media likes and shares aren't what makes a story important. The ephemeral messaging app has rolled out Discover, featuring multimedia articles from major news brands.

Snapchat And Dropbox Breaches Are Really Third-Party-App Breaches

5:33pm October 15, 2014

by Elise Hu

While troves of data from the ephemeral messaging app Snapchat and the cloud storage provider Dropbox were leaked, the companies put the blame elsewhere.

Twitter made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange in November. Both the social media giant and the relative newcomer Snapchat are valued in the billions, but neither company has yet turned a profit.

$0 Profits Couldn't Hold Back This Year's Tech Darlings

6:30pm December 30, 2013

by Steve Henn

In Silicon Valley, zero profit and even zero revenue don't make a company a loser. Tech companies like Snapchat and Twitter, which have not yet turned any profit, can be worth billions of dollars based on future potential alone.

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