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Snap is launching APIs, but won’t share much user data with developers.
Recode’s Kara Swisher, Peter Kafka and Dan Frommer interview executives from Facebook, Snapchat, Uber, Airbnb and Spotify.
Spiegel pours salt on the wound in his long-simmering fight with Instagram.
“As time goes on, I think it will become clear to more and more people that our values are really hard to copy.”
“Fundamentally, they’re having a really hard time changing the DNA of their company.”
That’s about double what it was three years ago.
Professional lacrosse player Paul Rabil talks about the intersection of social media and sports on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
Snap’s executives, including CEO Evan Spiegel, will help the program’s founders.
Their opinion of Snapchat’s brand has taken a major hit.
Amazon’s Tim Stone is in. Vollero is out.
Calling CEO Mark Zuckerberg “completely immoral,” the provocative investor has no regrets and says “no founder should ever sell a company to him.”
Advertisers are scared and users aren’t using the app the way CEO Evan Spiegel originally thought.
Snap stock is tanking again.
Plus, other questions we have ahead of Snap earnings on Tuesday.
But Twitter is also a mandatory part of the job of media professionals, Manjoo says on Recode Decode.
Spectacles are just fun right now. They’ll become important down the line.
You don’t need to get this pair out of a vending machine.
User Stories are headed to the Discover page as part of a new test, which raises a number of questions about Snap’s recent redesign.
These new Snapchat ads won’t blend in as well as the old ones.
Upfront Ventures managing partner Mark Suster analyzes the mobile-social upstart on Recode Decode.
Spiegel is trying to turn Snap into a company that can deliver reliable revenue and profits.
It’s you and your 15 closest friends.
Nothing is off-limits in the fight between the two social media companies.
It’s the third round of cuts already in 2018.
What timing!
Microsoft and Snap are exceptions — for now.
But don’t worry. Digital advertising is still a duopoly.
Rihanna isn’t happy with Snap, and the stock is down. But the company is also dealing with an advertising problem.
Snap’s engineering team is expected to be hit hard, but other teams are also bracing for cuts.
Some publishers are seeing spikes. Others are seeing declines. Everyone is still trying to figure out Snapchat’s new algorithm.
Can Snapchat make two feeds work when Facebook couldn’t?
Kylie Jenner doesn’t like the Snapchat redesign — but Snap didn’t change things for her.
Snap wants more advertisers to help bump up its ad prices.
Shopify and Darkstore helped bring the in-app shopping experience to life.
Poke’s failure was a huge turning point for Snapchat.
The founder of the communications app is worth about $4.5 billion.
The data might help Snapchat’s stars cut better deals with advertisers.
That’s according to research firm eMarketer.
Snap is offering hundreds of dollars in free ad credits to advertisers who buy vertical video ads on Instagram.