Tag: snapchat
Cases of WhatsApp hacking, blackmailing surge
LAHORE: As many as 2,302 complaints of online harassment, violence and bullying were received in last two years since the establishment of Cyber Harassment...
Snapchat announces plans for new scripted shows
Snapchat on Wednesday announced new scripted shows for its photo messaging app Snapchat which will launch this fall and struck partnerships with Hollywood production...
Snapchat users seek plastic surgeries to look like filters
Youngsters who are avid users of social media apps such as Snapchat and Instagram are increasingly seeking to actually look like what they look like after...
Three-quarters Facebook users as active or more since privacy scandal: poll
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO: Most of Facebook’s US users have remained loyal to the social network despite revelations that a political consultancy collected information about...
Rihanna criticises Snapchat for mocking domestic violence
LOS ANGELES: Rihanna denounced Snapchat after an advertisement made light of her beating by fellow pop star Chris Brown, sending the company’s share prices...
Kylie Jenner’s tweet costs Snapchat over $1 billion
Snapchat’s parent company lost around $1.3 billion in market value after reality star Kylie Jenner’s tweeted that she was no longer using the messaging...
Snapchat redesign causes backlash among users
WASHINGTON: Snapchat's latest app redesign, aimed at broadening the appeal of the youth-oriented social network, sparked a backlash from many users complaining about the...
Snap lays off two dozen employees amid competition with Facebook
Snap Inc, the parent company of popular photo-sharing platform Snapchat, has laid off two dozen employees, mostly editors, across divisions within the company.
“Most of...
Google to offer $1000 to anyone who hacks Snapchat, Tinder
Google is offering security experts a bounty to identify Android app flaws as the Alphabet unit seeks to wipe out bugs from its Google...
Saudi man divorces wife 2 hours after wedding for using Snapchat
A groom in Saudi Arabia filed for divorce a mere two hours after the wedding ceremony because the bride broke an agreement not to...
Snapchat unveils spectacles, it’s video-recording sunglasses
Meet Snap, Inc., a Venice, Calif.-based startup that’s behind the popular ephemeral messaging app Snapchat.
Spectacles, as the company calls them, are a set of...
Snapchat ‘Yellow Face’ lens taken down after being slapped as racist,...
Vanishing message app Snapchat made a photo lens quickly disappear after an online uproar branding it an offensive stereotype of Asians worthy of the...
Instagram’s Snapchat-like update offers 24-hour-limit ‘stories’
Users of Instagram, a photo-sharing app owned by Facebook Inc , can now post a picture and video slideshows that last 24 hours, a...
Snapchat’s latest upgrade Chat 2.0 takes on messaging apps
Snapchat is dressing up its messaging with an upgraded video chat and animations, part of the social network’s efforts to be the preferred service...
