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LOS ANGELES adidas ultra boost uk sale , April 22 (Xinhua) -- Southern California-based social media company Snap Inc., which highly publicized IPO in March with value at 24 billion U.S. dollars, faced backfire from global social media users as CEO Evan Spiegel was accused of claiming that its product, Snapchat, was an app "only for rich people."

Snapchat, which was labeled by business analysts as the strongest rival to Facebook adidas ultra boost uk , had to start damage control urgently, saying Spiegel never made such remarks and "these words were written by a disgruntled former employee," Inc reported Saturday.

The quote, which Snap called "ridiculous," came from a recently unredacted court complaint by Anthony Pompliano, who was hired away by Snap from Facebook then served as the company's growth lead for a few weeks in 2015.

Pompliano's lawsuit Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Cream White UK For Sale , filed in redacted form in Los Angeles Superior Court in January. Snap Inc. dropped its efforts to keep the unredacted complaint under seal and released it in a public filing last week.

In the complaint, Pompliano recounted an exchange he said he had with Spiegel in a September 2015 meeting about the app's international growth plans. He said he presented methods to address the issue, but Spiegel abruptly cut him off.

"This app is only for rich people," Spiegel said, according to Pompliano. "I don't want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain."

These words sparked outrages from all around world, especially in India. Hundreds of thousands users voiced their disapproval via social-media posts and one-star reviews in Google and Apple's app stores.

"Mr. CEO of Snapchat Women's Adidas Performance Ultra Boost W White UK , we may be poor but we have bigger hearts than you, "a user named Kp nalk said in a recent one-star review in Google Play store.

Another tweet posted by Shreyas Singh on April 15 said: "I am very poor so uninstalled #snapchat but thanks for entertaining for this many days. @evanspiegel @Snapchat don't mess with India."

"This is ridiculous," as statement released by Snap argued, saying that those words were written by "a disgruntled former employee."

"We are grateful for our Snapchat community in India and around the world," the statement said.

However, Snap would face huge challenge in this lawsuit more than PR works as Pompliano also claimed that he learned that the company had exaggerated its user data and that top executives were "completely misinformed" about key metrics.

According to report of Variety Men's Adidas Performance Ultra Boost Uncaged M White UK , in the lawsuit, Pompliano said that on his second day on the job he met with two data analysts, who confided to him that Snapchat had "an institutional aversion to looking at user data," and its efforts in that area were marked by "utter incompetence."

Pompliano said he found Snapchat's daily active users (DAUs) was much less than the company's boasted number, 100 million DAUs at the time, moreover Cheap Men's Adidas Performance Ultra Boost Uncaged M Grey UK , the user base increased only 1 to 4 percent per quarter, far less than the double-digit month-over-month growth that the company was claiming.

Pompliano also claimed that he was fired because Spiegel determined that he "presented a risk to Snapchat's IPO."

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- The White House said on Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump would address the nation on his Afghanistan strategy on Monday night.

According to a statement by the White House, in the televised speech on Monday at 9:00 p.m. local time Men's Adidas Ultra Boost Uncaged Black White For Sale UK , Trump will provide an update on the path forward for America's engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama had planned to reduce the current number of 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan to some 5,500 by the end of 2015 and withdraw all troops by the end of 2016 when his presidency came to an end.

However, given the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, the Obama administration repeatedly postponed the withdrawal.

Currently, there are about 8 Men's Adidas Ultra Boost Parley Blue UK For Sale ,400 U.S. troops and another 5,000 forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on the ground in Afghanistan to train and assist the Afghan forces against the Taliban, and conduct counter-terrorism missions.

The new Afghanistan strategy comes at a time when senior U.S. officials warned of a dire security situation in Afghanistan.

In a congressional hearing in June, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said that the United States was still "not winning" the longest war in U.S. history in Afghanistan.

U.S. National Intelligence Director Dan Coats also warned in May that the security situation in Afghanistan would most likely deteriorate in the future even if the United States and its allies offer more military aid.

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