TikTok

All the major social media players are racing to rip-off BeReal, a small, buzzy French app. (2022)

TikTok has rolled a new in-app text-to-image AI generator that lets users type in a prompt and receive an image that can be used as the background ... (2022)

Machine-learning generated content has major implications on the Metaverse, because it brings the marginal cost of production to zero. (2022)

TikTok is announcing a new in-app creation tool called TikTok Library (2022)

If you haven’t been paying attention to TikTok, you haven’t been paying attention. The short-form video app hailing from Beijing’s ByteDance just h... (2019)

Wall Street Journal, 2017: “Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens, has agreed to be acquired by Chinese n... (2017)

Musical.ly has begun redirecting users of its Live.ly app, which it decided to kill off last month, to a competing app called LiveMe. Existing Live... (2019)

The agency found many users of the app, now known as TikTok, were under 13 and revealed sensitive personal information without their parents’ permi... (2019)

"So what makes Douyin so appealing, and why did it grow so fast? Here are eight lessons on Douyin’s meteoric rise that Western companies can learn ... (2018)

The video-sharing app by the Chinese-owned Bytedance, the world's most valuable startup, has a younger audience than Facebook, an algorithm that le... (2019)

“It’s almost like the Explore Tab that we have on Instagram,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in leaked audio of him describing TikTok during an ... (2019)

TikTok is one of the hottest social media platforms but the CEO of Reddit had some harsh words for the popular app, calling it “fundamentally paras... (2020)

> They also use audio fingerprinting to identify visitors. This doesn’t mean they actually use your microphone or speaker. Instead they generate a ... (2019)

Two years after Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS ... (2020)

The list of government agencies forbidden from using the app grows (2020)

Nightclubs are taking an innovative approach to reach their quarantined audience. The Shanghai nightclub TAXX earned $104,000 in tips paid throu... (2020)

Open up short-form video app TikTok and you’re met with a stream of popular videos, tailored to your own interests. But when your friend launches T... (2020)

a16z Podcast on Spotify With the U.S. tech partnership for TikTok being finalized, what happens if source code is excluded (and more specificall... (2020)

How TikTok exposed Facebook’s blindspot, thanks to its Chinese roots, and why those Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern. Tuesday, July 1... (2020)

China's ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donal... (2020)

The beleaguered app describes the inner workings of its video-selection code. (2020)