Snapchat Teams Up With Amazon to Offer Image-Based Shopping
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Snapchat is teaming up with Amazon.com Inc. to let users of its social-media app buy products based on what they see through their smartphone’s camera lenses.
Snapchat’s mobile app opens up to a camera, which people can use to send disappearing images and videos to their friends. Now, users will be able to point the Snapchat camera at a product they see in the real world to scan its image or barcode. If Amazon recognizes the item, it will present a link to purchase it on the retail giant’s app or website, parent company Snap Inc. said Monday in a blog post.