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Snapchat Plus offers almost nothing for the price of Apple TV+
Snapchat has confirmed it is working on a subscription service called Snapchat Plus.
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Snapchat is making it easier for the cool kids to find restaurants
Snapchat has today announced new integration with restaurant review site The Infatuation which will allow users of the app to see information about eateries in their area.
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Snapchat's Shared Stories feature threads multiple people into one video
Snapchat has announced Shared Stories, a feature that is designed to allow people to invite other people to add content to their stories. Unlike the previous Custom Stories feature, Shared Stories allow people who have been invited to then invite their own friends, too.
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Snapchat is testing a new parental control feature dubbed Family Center
Snapchat is reportedly working on a new parental control feature that would give parents a better understanding of who their teens are following and who they have been chatting with on the service.
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Snapchat's Dynamic Stories bring RSS-based news feeds to the masses
Snapchat has announced that it is bringing news stories to its app via publishers' existing RSS feeds. The news will appear as Dynamic Stories, the video and photo-based social network says, with big publishers already signed on across the United States, United Kingdom, France, and India.
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Snap just bought a company that could help it literally read your mind
Snap, the parent company behind Snapchat, has bought a company that currently makes technology that is designed to read your thoughts and then translate them into actions on-screen.
CODA
Snapchat's first Oscars ad was inspired by Apple TV+ movie 'CODA'
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, will run its first-ever Oscars ad later this week and a new report points out that it was inspired by the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ movie 'Coda'.
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Snapchat is now letting your friends see your real-time location
Snapchat is now allowing your friends to see exactly where you are in real-time in a move that borrows heavily from Apple's Find My.
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Snapchat is putting ads in Stories but you'll get a cut of the cash
Snapchat is going to start putting ads in people's stories but creators will get a cut of the money that they earn.
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Snapchat experiencing global outage
Spikes on monitoring services indicate Snapchat is currently experiencing issues.