Snapchat Settles With Ousted Early Partner Reggie Brown

Company quietly settles under confidential terms

Snapchat chief executive officer Evan Spiegel and CTO Bobby Murphy have reached an undisclosed settlement with bounced early partner Reggie Brown, the company has announced in a statement.

In a stealthy public relations move, the news was revealed on Tuesday as all eyes were on Apple's event announcing the iPhone6 and other new products following a Snapchat dispute that went on for months.

Brown claims to have come up with the original idea for the disappearing message app, originally called Peekaboo, while a student at Stanford, only to be shut out of the company launch.

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