Below is the link to the assigned article. Please read it and answer the questions (Complete Sentences Required where indicated) via email as directed.
Link: Snapchat’s Redesign Brings Self-Destruction Into the Mobile Messaging Wars
Questions:
1. Write out the sentence and fill in the blanks:
On Thursday the Los Angeles-based startup _______________ a major ___________ that reflects its growing _____________ in the increasingly _______________ world of mobile messaging.
2. What two other features will Snapchat communications include (in addition to photos timed to vanish after viewing)?
3. How does the founder (Evan Spiegal) see what they are offering is different from other messaging apps?
4. Write out the sentence and fill in the blanks:
______________, the mobile messaging service owned by __________ giant Tencent, is among the _________ rivals stepping up efforts to win over _________ users.
5. What did Facebook acquire for 19 billion dollars to compete with Snapchat?
6. Do you use Snapchat and what do you think of the efforts to increase the number of features?
(complete sentences required)
Bonus: State what the word subsume means, based on its use in the article:
The new format will further escalate Snapchat’s growing rivalry with Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who has twice tried and failed to subsume Snapchat into his company’s portfolio.
(use context (of the sentence) or a dictionary from the shelf or online)
Label in the subject line the code (below) and Snapchat before emailing it.
Codes:
P-5 for period 5
P-7 for period 7
P-8 for period 8
P-9 for period 9
P-1 for period 1
P-2 for period 2
P-4 for period 4P-5 for period 5
P-7 for period 7
P-8 for period 8
P-9 for period 9
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