SnapChat
The social app Snapchat is known allowing its users to share scandalous videos and pictures to their followers. The best part is the evidence only lasts for 24 hours on a device. But what happens when a woman's snaps reveals she may have been with her assailant just hours before she wound up dead?
MTV's Snapchat account is pretty new, but it's since been put to good use. And will also be the medium for announcing the music channel's nominees for the 2014 Video Music Awards.
Snapchat says it is adding new user privacy features after a holiday hack last week, when hackers exposed the private information of about 4.6 million Snapchat users. The young social media company also said it would beef up internal security to make it more difficult to get at account information, but noticeably offered no apologies.
Instagram unveils Instagram Direct, the service that allows users to message and share images with fellow users privately.
A new update for Instagram has sent the social networking world buzzing with a new photo and video messaging feature.
Facebook reportedly offered almost $3 billion cash for Snapchat Inc., a deal which its CEO has passed up on. The report simultaneously shows what Facebook is willing to do to reach a younger audience, and how confident the up and coming social media company is in its future.
iOS 7 features changes to screenshot alerts, which could signal trouble for the Snapchat app.
The popularity of sharing photos on the internet is skyrocketing, along with the mobile web in general, according to Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report for 2013 today at the AllThingsD D11 conference. If that doesn't sound surprising, here's the kicker - according to Meeker, the number of photos we're sharing each day is going to double by the end of 2013, and the exploding popularity of Snapchat is the primary reason.
