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Snapchat Is Making Some Pretty Serious Money From Live StoriesSnapchat Is Making Some Pretty Serious Money From Live Stories
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Ads for Snapchat’s Live Stories feature are going for hundreds of thousands of dollars a day.

By Kurt Wagner
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The New Era of Visual CommunicationThe New Era of Visual Communication
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Technology continues to evolve and give us more ways to communicate and invoke emotion with words, audio, images, digital touch and whatever comes next.

By Ben Bajarin
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Missed Code Conference? Here Are the Highlights in Three Minutes. (Video)Missed Code Conference? Here Are the Highlights in Three Minutes. (Video)
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The “mad as hell” rant, phosphorus triangles and more.

By James Temple
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BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti and Ben Smith Explain How They Turned a ‘Great Cat Site’ Into a Powerful PublisherBuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti and Ben Smith Explain How They Turned a ‘Great Cat Site’ Into a Powerful Publisher
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BuzzFeed’s main brains say the site still gets lots of traffic from cats -- and dresses -- but is increasingly doing high-impact journalism on multiple platforms.

By Peter Kafka
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Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel on Diversity, Features for the Olds and More at Code Conference 2015 (Video)Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel on Diversity, Features for the Olds and More at Code Conference 2015 (Video)
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Snapchat’s young co-founder and CEO joined the Re/code bosses onstage at Code for a conversation about issues that won’t go away anytime soon.

By Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher
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The Power of Personalities at Tech CompaniesThe Power of Personalities at Tech Companies
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Powerful individuals at tech firms can come to personify the company, for better or worse.

By Jan Dawson
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Re/wind: The Code Conference, Google I/O and That Vox AcquisitionRe/wind: The Code Conference, Google I/O and That Vox Acquisition
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Snapchat’s new funding, Path sold itself and more news from Silicon Valley.

By Noah Kulwin
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Capital Gains: Snapchat and DocuSign Swallow Some More CashCapital Gains: Snapchat and DocuSign Swallow Some More Cash
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Ad tech, robotic pills and more funding news.

By Noah Kulwin
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Snapchat Closes Another Massive Funding Round -- $537 MillionSnapchat Closes Another Massive Funding Round -- $537 Million
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What You Missed at Code Conference Day One: Elizabeth Warren, Evan SpiegelWhat You Missed at Code Conference Day One: Elizabeth Warren, Evan Spiegel
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A liberal firebrand and a Silicon Beach curiosity.

By Noah Kulwin
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Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel Talks About Those Emails and Diversity (Video)Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel Talks About Those Emails and Diversity (Video)
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He’s sorry.

By Peter Kafka
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Snapchat CEO: The Tech Bubble Is Real and Yes, It Will Burst (VIDEO)Snapchat CEO: The Tech Bubble Is Real and Yes, It Will Burst (VIDEO)
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“I think that people are making riskier investments and ... there will be a correction,” he said.

By Jason Del Rey
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Thumbs Up! Thumbs Off! Snapchat Is Going to Make It Easier to Watch Videos.Thumbs Up! Thumbs Off! Snapchat Is Going to Make It Easier to Watch Videos.
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Evan Spiegel wants people to watch more videos. So Snapchat is (probably) going to make it easier to watch videos.

By Peter Kafka
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Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel Talks IPO, Bubbles and its 100 Million Daily Users at CodeSnapchat’s Evan Spiegel Talks IPO, Bubbles and its 100 Million Daily Users at Code
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Snapchat’s reticent CEO sits down with Re/code’s Swisher and Mossberg.

By Kurt Wagner
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Snapchat Is Investing in Shopping App SpringSnapchat Is Investing in Shopping App Spring
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Another day, another messaging app that wants to explore e-commerce.

By Jason Del Rey and Kurt Wagner
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Code (Video)What to Expect When You’re Expecting Code (Video)
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Here are the themes Kara and Walt plan to explore with this year’s speakers.

By James Temple
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The Most Popular Question for Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel: Why Didn’t You Sell?The Most Popular Question for Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel: Why Didn’t You Sell?
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Spiegel talked about passing up $3 billion during a commencement speech at USC on Friday.

By Kurt Wagner
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Snapchat Lowered Its Ad Rates for DiscoverSnapchat Lowered Its Ad Rates for Discover
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Snapchat’s Discover ads are a lot cheaper than they were a few months back.

By Kurt Wagner
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Barra, Claure, Pao, Woodman at CodeBarra, Claure, Pao, Woodman at Code
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Here are four more top-notch speakers for our annual event from Xiaomi, Sprint, Reddit and GoPro.

By Kara Swisher
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Snapchat Is No Longer Selling Its Original Ad Unit, Brand StoriesSnapchat Is No Longer Selling Its Original Ad Unit, Brand Stories
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Brand Stories are gone -- for now.

By Kurt Wagner
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Help Kick Off Code Conference 2015Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Help Kick Off Code Conference 2015
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While Re/code is politically neutral, we’re highlighting disruptive figures and big issues at our second Code conference, and Sen. Warren perfectly fits that bill.

By Walt Mossberg
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The Mobile Video Moment Has Finally ArrivedThe Mobile Video Moment Has Finally Arrived
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Do you always feel like somebody’s watching you? They are -- because the eyes have it.

By Liz Gannes
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Let the Code Speakers Begin: Spiegel, Meeker, Chesky, IribeLet the Code Speakers Begin: Spiegel, Meeker, Chesky, Iribe
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And away we go.

By Kara Swisher
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What Teen Problem? Facebook Still Dominates Among Teenagers.What Teen Problem? Facebook Still Dominates Among Teenagers.
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Twice as many teens use Facebook as Twitter or Google+, a new study found.

By Kurt Wagner
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Snapchat and Twitch Tapped to Tease New Video Games From Activision, Square EnixSnapchat and Twitch Tapped to Tease New Video Games From Activision, Square Enix
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“What does it mean?” a marketing team imagined the Internet saying.

By Eric Johnson
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Here’s the Chart That Explains Why Media Companies Are Obsessed With SnapchatHere’s the Chart That Explains Why Media Companies Are Obsessed With Snapchat
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Spoiler: Not a lot of old folks are Snapchatting (for now).

By Peter Kafka
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BuzzFeed’s New Strategy: Fishing for Eyeballs in Other People’s StreamsBuzzFeed’s New Strategy: Fishing for Eyeballs in Other People’s Streams
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CEO Jonah Peretti explains why, in an exclusive interview.

By Peter Kafka
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Capital Gains: Twitter Buys a Live Streaming Video Service Periscope and MoreCapital Gains: Twitter Buys a Live Streaming Video Service Periscope and More
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Money makes the world go round. Lots of money even more.

By Noah Kulwin
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Re/code in the Media: Apple Watch, Ellen Pao and Snapchat AdsRe/code in the Media: Apple Watch, Ellen Pao and Snapchat Ads
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Re/code on TV? You betcha!

By Kurt Wagner
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Re/wind: The Apple Watch Arrives, Alibaba’s Big Snapchat Bet and MoreRe/wind: The Apple Watch Arrives, Alibaba’s Big Snapchat Bet and More
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Also, Ellen Pao took the stand for four days in the Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial this week.

By Noah Kulwin
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Exclusive: Snapchat COO Emily White to Depart Ephemeral Messaging PhenomExclusive: Snapchat COO Emily White to Depart Ephemeral Messaging Phenom
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CEO Evan Spiegel wanted more hands-on control of the hot startup that White has helped turbocharge.

By Kara Swisher and Kurt Wagner
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Snapchat’s Discover Publishers Are Asking for Big Ad Rates -- And They’re Getting ThemSnapchat’s Discover Publishers Are Asking for Big Ad Rates -- And They’re Getting Them
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Advertisers are paying big for Snapchat. Because teens.

By Kurt Wagner
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Alibaba Has Invested $200 Million in SnapchatAlibaba Has Invested $200 Million in Snapchat
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By Jason Del Rey and Kurt Wagner
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Snapchat HR Director Sara Sperling Departs After Six MonthsSnapchat HR Director Sara Sperling Departs After Six Months
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The Facebook veteran is leaving for personal reasons.

By Kurt Wagner
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Los Angeles Is the Home of the Open InternetLos Angeles Is the Home of the Open Internet
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The Internet started here in LA in October 1969, with a digital message sent from a computer at UCLA to a computer at Stanford University in Palo Alto.

By Eric Garcetti
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New York Times Is Considering Giving Away News Digest App for Free, CEO Says (Video)New York Times Is Considering Giving Away News Digest App for Free, CEO Says (Video)
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“Part of the price of that success, of getting that audience, is [that] we’ve not sold as many subscriptions as we would have liked,” Mark Thompson said.

By Jason Del Rey
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Today in Silicon Valley: Re/code Interviews President Barack ObamaToday in Silicon Valley: Re/code Interviews President Barack Obama
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Cyber security, NSA spying, the Healthcare.gov debacle and does the commander-in-chief Snapchat?

By Kara Swisher
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The Biggest Data Breaches and Hacks of 2014The Biggest Data Breaches and Hacks of 2014
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Where will last week’s data breach at Anthem place on the 2015 list?

By Bitium
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Snapchat Names Steve Horowitz New VP of EngineeringSnapchat Names Steve Horowitz New VP of Engineering
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By Kurt Wagner
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Re/wind: Apple’s Record-Breaking Profit, Snapchat Gets a Makeover and MoreRe/wind: Apple’s Record-Breaking Profit, Snapchat Gets a Makeover and More
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And Twitter introduced two new features in one week.

By Noah Kulwin