(JTA) — High school students in suburban Denver participated in a Snapchat post that referred to killing Jews. In the post circulated over the weekend, three students at Cherry Creek High are shown wearing hats in a costume store. The text box below reads “Me and the boys bout to exterminate the Jews.” A fourth…
New Yorkers awoke to a surprise on Thursday morning: Several popular map apps had renamed their city “Jewtropolis.” Snapchat, StreetEasy and Citi Bike are among the programs affected, as they rely on the third-party map application that may to blame, Newsweek reported. Some people noted that the name varies between New York and Jewtropolis depending…
Evan Spiegel, the 27-year-old founder of Snapchat, is rubbing many of the company’s investors the wrong way, sailing on the Mediterranean Sea as the firm’s stock does a nose-dive. “Where are the shareholders’ yachts?” a disgruntled shareholder in the company told the New York Post’s Page Six. “Evan is chilling on the coast while Snap…
Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel took his company public today, exceeding expectations for its IPO. The company behind the image-sharing app popular with millennials started trading on the New York Stock Exchange with an IPO price of $17 per share, quickly rising to $24 per share. From La La Land Spiegel attended the prestigious Crossroads school…
On my first day of work this summer, I rushed to my office, the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, with the hopes of being the first one there. Call me eager or anxious, but I wanted to make a good first impression. To my surprise, Shimon Peres was already at his desk drinking coffee…
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders joined Snapchat on Monday, becoming the latest contender in the 2016 White House race to join the social media app popular with teens and millennials. On his official Twitter account (@BernieSanders), the 74-year-old U.S. senator from Vermont announced that he had joined Snapchat: “What is this Snapshot thing and…
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