Snapchat blocks 415,000 underage accounts in AustraliaSnapchat has blocked 415,000 accounts under Australia's social media ban for under-16s, the company said Monday, but warned some youngsters...
02 Feb, 2026, 11.42 AM IST
Google Meet, Snapchat, ChatGPT: The internet keeps breaking and users are the first to feel itA string of outages over the past month — from AWS to Cloudflare — knocked out apps like Snapchat, X and ChatGPT, exposing how easily the m...
26 Nov, 2025, 03.57 PM IST
AWS outage: Elon Musk promotes X Chat, mocks Signal for dependency on Jeff Bezos companyIn a series of posts on X, Musk wrote that it was “pretty weird that an AWS outage caused Signal to fail,” criticising the messaging platfo...
21 Oct, 2025, 10.32 AM IST
What caused AWS outage? Amazon says it identified 'potential reason' for global internet disruption. Check full list of services affectedAmazon's cloud computing service, AWS, experienced a massive global outage that disrupted numerous online platforms, including social media...
21 Oct, 2025, 07.30 AM IST
Australian man sentenced for attempting to lure 13-year-old boy with PlayStation for sexA 29-year-old Australian man, Luke Edward Reynolds, was jailed for attempting to meet a 13-year-old boy for sex in exchange for a PlayStati...
04 Jul, 2025, 02.10 PM IST
Snap sued by New Mexico over failure to protect children from sexual exploitationThe lawsuit brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez said a months-long investigation found that Snapchat was a primary platform ...
06 Sep, 2024, 06.07 PM IST
US Surgeon General calls for social media warning labels to protect adolescentsIn an op-ed in the New York Times, Murthy wrote that a warning label alone will not make social media safe for young people but that it can...
18 Jun, 2024, 08.20 AM IST
Snapchat's AI chatbot may pose privacy risk to children, says UK watchdogSnapchat's artificial intelligence chatbot, "My AI," may face a ban in the UK if the company fails to address concerns about privacy risks ...
07 Oct, 2023, 08.34 AM IST
Snapchat under scrutiny from UK watchdog over underage usersReuters reported exclusively in March that Snapchat owner Snap Inc had only removed a few dozen children aged under-13 from its platform in...
08 Aug, 2023, 10.47 AM IST
Snapchat down? App users reporting errors since morningSnapchat down: According to several users complaints on social media, Snapchat users are encountering errors like “Could not refresh,” “Fai...
30 Sep, 2022, 01.44 PM IST
Snapchat down: Users face issues as messages fail to deliverThough Snapchat did not release official communication about what led to this outage, the Snapchat Support account on Twitter asked users t...
30 Sep, 2022, 01.05 PM IST
Social media offers parents more controls to make services safer and age-appropriate. But do they really help?The tools do offer some help, such as blocking strangers from messaging kids.
11 Aug, 2022, 07.11 PM IST
Today, pivoting has taken a casual turnA decade ago, pivoting happened serendipitously. People chanced upon a business idea, while they were headlong into their first business id...
22 May, 2016, 01.55 PM IST
Economic Times Startup Awards 2015: Do not forget to have fun and play, says Evan Spiegel" I would say over half of my time is spent recruiting really great people for our team, and we have been super super lucky"
15 Oct, 2015, 12.11 PM IST
Leaked email shows Snapchat CEO's warning about a tech crash and brutal fall for FacebookSnapchat CEO Evan Spiegel made candid comments about the tech sector and Facebook in particular in a Nov. 2013 email to a Sony executive.
18 Dec, 2014, 04.16 PM IST
When Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel got snapped at4 years ago, Stanford student Evan Spiegel left a comment on TechCrunch and got slammed...
03 Jul, 2014, 12.28 PM IST
Facebook to pay WhatsApps $2 billion if deal failsFacebook will have to shell out $2 billion (over Rs 12,500 crore) if its acquisition of the instant messaging service Whatsapp fails to get...
20 Feb, 2014, 04.37 PM IST