Snapchat Hires Google Executive for Security, Debuts Chat
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Snapchat Inc. is adding executives and new features, as it steps up efforts to build the company.
The Los Angeles-based startup, whose mobile application lets people send annotated photos that disappear, said today it hired Jad Boutros from Google Inc. as its director of information security. The company also unveiled an option for users to chat with text, stepping into an increasingly crowded mobile-messaging market that has drawn giants like Facebook Inc.