Snapchat launched QR codes in January after acquiring the QR code startup Scan.me last year. ... Snapchat said. For example, a 1-inch Snapcode can be scanned from up to 7 inches away.

In September 2014, Snapchat secretly acquired a QR code startup named Scan.me. We only found out about it, and the $50 million ($14 million in cash, $36 million in stock) because of the Sony ...

It's difficult to determine how QR codes became "cool" again. Snapchat, the popular app for teens and young adults, may have helped. Snapchat created its so-called "Snapcodes" in early 2015, ...

Some Snapchat users aren’t over the moon about the app’s latest update, but there’s a hidden new feature we can all get behind.In the latest Snapchat update you can turn your QR code—one ...

We don't know for sure that Snapchat's new QR codes were based on the Scan.me's tech — but it seems a pretty safe bet. So far, the early reception to it on Twitter has been roundly positive ...

Remember the days when you were supposed to share websites between phones using QR codes? They're back, but with a modern twist. Snapchat is updating its mobile apps (iOS at first, with Android ...

Snapchat is making its quick response (QR) codes for businesses a little more personal. The company is updating its app to allow websites to have their own QR code. Once scanned, the code will ...

Similar to the Snapcodes used by Snapchat, the new Twitter QR codes feature a user-unique code on them, as well as the user’s profile picture in the middle, as seen above.

QR codes are dead, an internet marketing strategist wrote in AdAge in 2013. The murderer: "easier-to-use apps." And yet, four years later, that isn't the case. Apps have become even more prevalent ...