Sentences with phrase «ephemeral messaging service»

The Gibson Security report and SnapchatDB are both reminders that even in an ephemeral messaging service, it would be a mistake to be lulled into a sense of security about the information that you do have stored with the app.

This app comes from the Facebook Creative Labs, the team behind a handful of specific - purpose - based apps released last year, including: Groups, an app for communicating and sharing photos with groups; Slingshot, an ephemeral messaging service; and Paper, a Flipboard - like reader app.

The ephemeral messaging service can't offer everlasting timelines but it is giving everyone who uses the app unbridled access to its 100 million daily active users, which I reckon sounds pretty appealing to most Instagram users right now.

Cooley stands to reap at least $ 1.8 m (# 1.5 m) in legal fees and expenses for its work on the initial public offering (IPO) of of Snap, the parent company of photo - sharing and ephemeral messaging service Snapchat, according to a securities filing.

Snapchat may have first made its name in the crowded world of mobile apps with an ephemeral messaging service, but the startup and its wildly popular app are not disappearing anywhere soon.

They called false Jacobs» statements that the security unit had misused attorney - client privilege or encouraged the use of ephemeral messaging services in order to cover up improper behavior.

Not exact matches

Yesterday, Snap Inc., the parent company of ephemeral messaging app Snapchat, disclosed in its S - 1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to buy $ 2 billion worth of Google cloud services over five years.

Earlier this week, Instagram also updated its messaging service to be more like Snapchat's with unified ephemeral and direct messaging.

Some users of Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging app, are reporting that they can not access the service with users in North America, Europe and Australia reporting issues.

The messaging app field is very, very crowded, with many lookalike apps offering essentially the same functionality — to WhatsApp add Facebook's own Messenger, WeChat, Line, Viber and more — and many others that are offering their own takes on the basic premise — for example Snapchat with its image - based ephemeral notes, or Wickr and Telegram with their ephemeral, encrypted services.

In a mobile - app market cluttered with services claiming to offer secure and ephemeral messaging, Wickr is one of the few that's highly regarded by security experts.

Snap is the creator of the Snapchat app, a service popular for sharing ephemeral messages and stories.

There was Slingshot, an ephemeral messaging app much in the same style as Snapchat; Riff, which let users collaborate with friends on videos and share them in the app and on Facebook; and Rooms, a group messaging service that was like a modern version of the chat rooms and message boards from the early days of the web.