{"id":11727,"date":"2013-11-18T20:37:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T02:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11727"},"modified":"2013-11-18T20:37:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T02:37:13","slug":"snapchat-spurned-3-billion-acquisition-offer-from-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11727","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In June, Snapchat raised $60 million from investors including Institutional Venture Partners; that round valued the company at $800 million.<\/p>\n<p>Three months later, Snapchat said its usage had nearly doubled, to 350 million messages or \u201csnaps\u201d per day, up from 200 million in June.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2013\/11\/13\/snapchat-spurned-3-billion-acquisition-offer-from-facebook\/\">Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook &#8211; Digits &#8211; WSJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, Snapchat raised $60 million from investors including Institutional Venture Partners; that round valued the company at $800 million. Three months later, Snapchat said its usage had nearly doubled, to 350 million messages or \u201csnaps\u201d per day, up from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[580,584,187,531],"class_list":["post-11727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-acquisitions","tag-appforthat","tag-facebook","tag-instant-messaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11728,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions\/11728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}