Snapchat Reaches Settlement With Its Disappearing Co-Founder

Snapchat co-creators Evan Spiegel and Bobby MurphyPhotograph by J. Emilio Flores/Corbis
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It took longer than 10 seconds but Snapchat is finally making a potentially mortifying lawsuit against its co-founders disappear.

On Tuesday afternoon, while almost every tech-obsessed person on the planet was largely distracted elsewhereBloomberg Terminal, Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy announced that they had reached a settlement with their former Stanford fraternity brother Reggie Brown, ending a long-simmering legal disputeBloomberg Terminal over the origins of the fast-growingBloomberg Terminal company. The terms of the settlement were not revealed.