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  • This Is What Facebook Has Done To Snap’s Share Price

    08 Nov 2017 by Sloane Hunter in Business, Facebook, Social
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    Can we please have a moment of silence for Snapchat?

    …

    Okay, let’s continue.

    The social media platform’s parent company, Snap, released its quarterly earnings yesterday, and, well, they weren’t too impressive, reports Quartz:

    The company’s stock plummeted over 17%, or about $2.50, to $12.60 in after-hours trading, after it missed Wall Street’s expectations. Its stock has not traded above its initial public offering price since July 7.

    Here’s a graph to show just how bad things have been for them:

    Eina.

    With minimal growth since going public in March, Snap generated a meagre $208 million (R3 billion) for the quarter, compared to Facebook, which posted $10.3 billion (R146 billion).

    And that’s what happens when you don’t let Facebook buy your company.

    If you recall, Facebook attempted to buy Snapchat for $3 billion (R42 billion) in 2013, but was “rebuffed by founder and CEO Evan Spiegel who seemed to believe that he could build a bussiness the could compete toe-to-toe with the blue giant”:

    In the intervening years, Facebook has tried time and again to mimic multiple functions of Snapchat’s in standalone apps, but never found much success. That was, until it outright copied Snapchat’s Stories structure for its own apps.

    Last year, Facebook put out a near-identical feature, allowing users to post short videos or images with filters and geolocations to their friends, or on their social networks that disappear after 24 hours, into Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Facebook itself. Instagram’s version now has over 300 million daily users, nearly double the 178 million users Snapchat has in its entire app.

    Damn you, Zuckerberg.

    [source:qz]

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