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Two South African men living in Murray, Utah, were arrested for allegedly raping an unconscious 14-year-old girl they had met over Snapchat, police say. Video evidence shows the girl was too drunk to resist the attack.

A Florida college student has been arrested for making bomb threats against Stetson University on Snapchat, according to a report.

67 percent of Americans claim to have received their news through social media at some point, according to a report.

The size of the Instagram hack reached over 6 million users, as hackers are doing a brisk business charging $10 per individual for contact information on a searchable data base.

Teenagers are ditching Facebook in favor of other social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat, according to a new report.

Snap Inc., the parent company to Snapchat, has reported that its quarterly loss “nearly quadrupled,” as user growth and revenue growth have started to slow.

An Ohio man accused of raping his 20-year-old step-granddaughter was arrested after police discovered a Snapchat video posted Tuesday showing the alleged sexual assault.

Two teenagers were arrested after police say they discovered Snapchat videos of them breaking into a water park.

(Reuters) — Facebook Inc (FB.O) has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to make shows for its upcoming video service, which will feature long and short-form content with ad breaks, according to several sources familiar with the situation.

Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, is facing a securities class action suit which alleges it made “false” and “misleading” claims about user growth.

Millennials who rushed to buy shares of the company behind Snapchat lost a lot of money this week.

A high school Spanish teacher from Colorado has been suspended after she reportedly made a piñata with President Trump’s face on it and allowed her students to hit it.

Snap Inc. has denied that CEO Evan Spiegel stated that Snapchat was “only for rich people” and he didn’t “want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain.”

Tuesday, Cincinnati Reds pitching prospect Ian Kahaloa was suspended 50 games after a second positive test for a drug of abuse. A Snapchat video apparently showing Kahaloa snorting a white substance has now surfaced after becoming public last month. Reds player

Facebook has introduced a new crowdfunding feature, similar to sites like GoFundMe, allowing users to raise money for particular causes.

Police in Uppsala, Sweden, have arrested one man in an ongoing investigation into a gang rape which was filmed and posted on the social media app Snapchat.

A new report suggests that Snapchat will be a more popular ad platform than Twitter, Yahoo, and AOL by 2020.

Just two hours of social media use a day can double the risk of young adults feeling “socially isolated,” according to a recent study.

Two teenage boys allegedly planned to “get rid” of a 14-year-old girl because one of the boys was annoyed by her Snapchat messages, police say.

A study released Thursday by LendEdu, an online marketplace for student loan refinancing, shows that millennials are most likely to check Snapchat before turning to Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.

Snapchat’s parent, Snap Inc., saw its stock jump by 60 percent in its first two days of trading, but has plunged by $14 billion since Friday’s close.

In another sign of how Silicon Beach is winning the geek culture war with Silicon Valley, the Snap, Inc. stock price is up 60 percent in its second day of trading versus Facebook IPO shares price crashing by 47 percent in the first three months after their IPO.

With the highly anticipated Snap, Inc. initial public offering (IPO) set to raise about $3.2 billion on March 1 by pricing shares at the high end of their expected range, a new report reveals that young social media consumers prefer Instagram, and millennial parents ages 45-to-54 are Snapchat’s only growth demographic.

Started by two roommates in a Stanford dorm in 2011, Snapchat’s parent, Snap, Inc., filed with the SEC last week for a $3 billion initial public offering (IPO), but admit the company may never make a profit.

An Oklahoma mother is not happy after seeing video of her four-year-old son being forced to kiss another boy at daycare, says a KFOR report. Dominique Green was sent video of the alleged incident that happened a few months ago at her

Snapchat’s social media parent, Snap, Inc., seemed headed for a $5 billion IPO until a former employee alleged in a conveniently timed lawsuit that the company misrepresented its financial position and pressured him for proprietary secrets about his former employer, Facebook.

Over half of the people who made it onto Forbes’ list of “America’s Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40,” released in early December, live in California’s Bay Area.

Venice, California-based Snapchat completed its first acquisition in Israel this week, buying an augmented reality platform named Cimagine for between $30-$40 million.

New York Jets defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson posted a profanity-laced Snapchat video to teammate Rontez Miles’ account before the team’s loss to Miami on Saturday.

Despite Donald Trump proving he could overwhelm Silicon Valley’s “Thought Police” on Twitter, the platform’s political correctness means that the Twitter brand is still not attractive to the conservative half of America.

A Playboy Playmate who posted a photo on Snapchat of a naked, 70-year-old woman and made fun of her weight pleaded not guilty Monday to a misdemeanor count of invasion of privacy.

A Saudi man divorced his wife two hours after they got married because she sent wedding pictures on Snapchat, despite having specified in the marriage contract that she would refrain from using social media.

An allegedly intoxicated Texas A&M University freshman crashed into a parked police patrol car after taking a topless Snapchat photo.

Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the social media juggernaut Snapchat has filed to go public at the jaw-dropping valuation of up to $40 billion.

Snapchat has released its new “Spectacles” sunglasses as a disruptive creator of much more personal video sharing experiences.

Snapchat announced a new pair of camera-fitted glasses that will be able to film ten-second videos, wirelessly sending footage to the user’s Snapchat Memories folder.