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Member Article Friends Quest, the latest the company’s release for Snapchat, is a real-time competitive multi-player platform game where the player needs to pass a series of levels full of dangers and mysteries. Friends Quest is the third title Gismart released on Snapchat as a part of a multi-game partnership agreement signed earlier this year. Released on the 10th of September, over 4.8 million players have already played Friends Quest globally on Snapchat. Together with previous game releases, Color Galaxy and Crazy Run, Gismart games generated nearly ninety million players, with the fourth title in development. Friends Quest was developed using Snaps Play Canvas, a web-first 3D game engine where developers can build HTML 5 games collaboratively. “We view social platform games as a sustainable growing business for Gismart. With Snapchat, the chances of releasing a hit game are higher than in a hyper casual world today. For instance, Color Galaxy, our first title on Snapchat, is comparable with successful hyper-casual games both in terms of the number of players and the profit received. The game is still one of the most popular on the platform and continues to generate profit” said Lana Meisak, VP Business Development and Marketing at…

  Published On 20 October,2021 09:41 am U.S. Senate panel to hold new hearing on social media impact on young users WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will hold an Oct. 26 hearing with tech firms Snap s (SNAP.N) Snapchat, TikTok, and Alphabet s YouTube (GOOGL.O) about their platforms  impact on young users, a panel said on Tuesday. "Recent revelations about harm to kids online show that Big Tech is facing its Big Tobacco moment — a moment of reckoning," said Senator Richard Blumenthal, who chairs the Senate Commerce consumer protection subcommittee holding the hearing. "We need to understand the impact of popular platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube on children and what companies can do better to keep them safe." Senator Marcia Blackburn, the top Republican on the subcommittee, said, "TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube all play a leading role in exposing children to harmful content." A Snap spokeswoman said the company looks forward to discussing their "approach to protecting the safety, privacy and wellbeing of our Snapchat community." TikTok and YouTube both confirmed they would take part. Earlier this month, the panel held a hearing with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who turned over thousands of documents she said showed the company had…

Snapchat app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Sign up for our PoliticsNY newsletter for the latest coverage and to stay informed about the 2021 elections in your district and across NYCSnap Inc said on Tuesday it is launching a studio to help brands create augmented reality advertising and experiences, part of a move to popularize the use of technology that can overlay computer-generated images onto a person’s view of the real world. The owner of photo messaging app Snapchat first became popular with young users for its early forms of augmented reality (AR), such as photo filters that could superimpose dog ears onto a person’s photo, or add a dancing hot dog to a video. Snap has since staked its future on advancing the technology, launching AR-enabled eyewear and acquiring startups that develop technology to allow users to virtually try on clothing. The new studio, Arcadia, will help brands build AR experiences not just for Snapchat, but any other social media apps or websites where it wants to place content, said Jeff Miller, global head of creative strategy at Snap. “The goal is to push the boundaries of what’s possible in…

Here’s how to sideload an APK file to install the Android app on your Windows 11 PC using Windows Subsystem for Android. You can install Windows Subsystem for Android manually on your Windows 11 PC using its Msixbundle file from our guide here. Step 1: Enable Developer mode in Windows Subsystem Open Windows Subsystem for Android first. For this, press the Windows key and search for Windows Subsystem for Android. Click Windows Subsystem for Android. Or click Open. In the Windows Subsystem for Android, toggle on Developer mode. Step 2: Install SDK Platform Tools Visit Google’s SDK Platform Tools page here.  Click Download SDK Platform-Tools for Windows. Scroll down all the way and select the checkbox to agree with the terms and conditions. Then click the green button to download the Platform Tools. A zip file called platform-tools_r31.0.3-windows (version might change) will be downloaded to your PC. For your ease, create a new separate folder called folder-for-apps in Windows Explorer. Now, transfer the platform-tools file to this folder. Right-click the platform-tools file and select Extract all. Click Extract. The file will be extracted. Open the folder called platform tools. You will have the adb.exe and some other files here. Related:…

Snap witnesses stock tumbling 22 per cent after missing revenue expectations for its third-quarter (Q3) earnings. The daily active users on Snapchat increased 23 per cent (year-over-year) to 306 million. The shares fell as Apple's iPhone privacy changes disrupted Snap's advertising business. (Image: Pixabay) Snap witnesses stock tumbling 22 per cent after missing revenue expectations for its third-quarter (Q3) earnings. The daily active users on Snapchat increased 23 per cent (year-over-year) to 306 million. The shares fell as Apple’s iPhone privacy changes disrupted Snap’s advertising business. Also Read - Tesla should make EVs in India to seek tax benefits: Niti Aayog suggests In an earnings call late on Thursday, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said that the company missed the lower end of its guidance due to a few key factors, including changes to advertising tracking on iOS and macroeconomic factors that have impacted our advertising partners. Also Read - Redmi Note 11 series to cost cheaper than Redmi Note 10 Pro Max? “Our advertising business was disrupted by changes to iOS and tracking that were broadly rolled out by Apple in June and July. While we anticipated some degree of business disruption, the new Apple provided measurement solution did not…

(Bloomberg) -- Stocks in Europe advanced on Friday after China Evergrande Group pulled back from the brink of a default, injecting a note of optimism into markets at the end of a week dominated by earnings reports and inflation worries.Most Read from BloombergThe Top Money Maker at Deutsche Bank Reaps Billions From SingaporeForget Palm Springs—Santa Fe Is the New Mecca for Modern ArchitectureGoogle’s Biggest Moonshot Is Its Search for a Carbon-Free FutureA $30 Billion Fortune Is Hiding in China’s Silicon ValleyBeef Industry Tries to Erase Its Emissions With Fuzzy Methane MathConsumer stocks led gains in the Stoxx Europe 600 index, with cosmetics maker L’Oreal SA jumping more than 6% after reporting a third-quarter earnings beat. On the downside, French carmaker Renault SA and London Stock Exchange Group Plc were the latest companies to report supply-chain challenges.Futures on the S&P 500 were little changed, but Nasdaq 100 contracts retreated after Snap Inc. -- owner of the Snapchat app -- tumbled in after-hours trading on a tempered earnings outlook, hurting other technology shares. In Asia, rallies in China’s technology equities and property shares were among the more notable moves. Local media said Evergrande paid a dollar-bond coupon before a weekend deadline, easing…