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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and KORA Organics CEO Miranda Kerr attend a gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., on May 4. The couple surprised graduates of a Los Angeles art school by paying off their student debt.

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr paid off art school graduates' student loans

May 17, 2022
Spiegel and Kerr, who have been married since 2017, gave the commencement speech and got honorary degrees from Otis College of Art and Design. Then they surprised graduates with a gift of their own.
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Business
Jennifer Stout , left, vice president of global public policy at Snapchat parent Snap Inc., and Michael Beckerman, vice president and head of public policy at TikTok, testify before a Senate panel on Tuesday.

4 takeaways from the Senate child safety hearing with YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok

Oct 26, 2021
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chaired the hearing, said being distinct from Facebook isn't enough to cut it for the three tech giants. "That bar is in the gutter," he told the company officials.
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Technology
An iPhone screengrab of Snapchat's speed filter, which allows users to record and share how fast they are moving. Snap told NPR that it is eliminating the tool.

Snapchat Ends 'Speed Filter' That Critics Say Encouraged Reckless Driving

Jun 17, 2021
The messaging app popular with teens is dropping a feature first launched in 2013. After several deadly car crashes involving the filter, Snap was the target of numerous lawsuits.
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Technology
Parents and tech companies are both struggling with how to handle underage kids using social media apps.

Parents To Facebook: Don't Make A Kid-Only Instagram, Just A Better Instagram

Jun 02, 2021
Facebook says it's working on a safer version of Instagram just for kids. Many parents worry about their kids' use of social media — but they don't trust Facebook's solution.
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Technology
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Snapchat should be held legally responsible in a case in which a young man used the app's "speed filter" feature before a fatal crash.

Snapchat Can Be Sued For Role In Fatal Car Crash, Court Rules

May 04, 2021
A federal appeals court on Tuesday issued a stunning ruling: It said a decades-old legal shield preventing platforms from lawsuits should not apply to Snapchat in a case involving a fatal car crash.
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America Reckons With Racial Injustice
CEO Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure from former and current employees who are frustrated with his lack of action on the president's posts.

Former Facebook Employees Blast Zuckerberg's 'Do-Nothing' Stance On Trump

Jun 03, 2020
Some of the social network's earliest hires say CEO Mark Zuckerberg's inaction on the president's most inflammatory posts is a 'betrayal' of the company's ideals.
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The Two-Way
Rihanna, photographed in February, denounced an ad on Snapchat that made light of domestic violence. The company's stock closed down by week's end.

Snapchat's Stock Sinks After Rihanna Denounces Domestic Violence Ad

Mar 17, 2018
The ad asked would you rather "slap Rihanna" or "punch Chris Brown." Snapchat pulled the ad, but its stock prices were still down by week's end.
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Goats and Soda
Snapchat users can upload photos and videos onto the new Snap Map. When a topic is trending, it'll pop up on a heat map. The image above is a composite of Snapchat screen grabs.

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

Jul 06, 2017
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?
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The Two-Way
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

Mar 03, 2017
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.
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The Two-Way
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.

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

Mar 02, 2017
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.
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All Tech Considered
Snap Inc. has filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public stock offering to raise about $3 billion.

Does Snapchat Need To Go Beyond Young Users To Succeed?

Feb 04, 2017
Older adults can sometimes feel like Snapchat wasn't made for them. But to continue its success, the company may have to look beyond its younger audience.
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All Tech Considered
Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel is taking the parent company of the Snapchat app public.

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

Feb 02, 2017
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.
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All Tech Considered
Uber says Snapchat will get information about the ETA, vehicle type and destination, but no private data, to create special filters for riders.

Uber And Snapchat Team Up To Zero In On Your Friends

Dec 21, 2016
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.
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Goats and Soda
A sexual assault victim in India used this dragon Snapchat filter to protect her identity while telling her story to a journalist.

How Snapchat Became A Virtual Confessional For Sexual Assault Victims

Aug 31, 2016
A journalist wanted to tell the stories of two rape victims while protecting their identities. How would he do it?
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Shots - Health News

Social Media Abuse Of Nursing Home Residents Often Goes Unchecked

Jul 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.
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All Tech Considered
Your celeb FOMO fix is now on Snapchat.

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

Jan 29, 2015
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.
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