social networking services
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Microsoft CEO Says Trump’s TikTok Shakedown Was the ‘Strangest Thing I’ve Ever Sort of Worked On’
Remember that time Donald Trump’s administration tried to strong-arm Beijing-based ByteDance into selling TikTok, its wildly popular music app, to a U.S. company? The CEO of Microsoft does, and he’d prefer that you recall it as a zany little corporate adventure instead.
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You’re Watching More TikTok Than YouTube, Which Is Why Every App Is Trying to Be TikTok
TikTok users are officially gobbling up more content than their counterparts on YouTube, with the ByteDance-owned short video platform officially outpacing the streaming giant in terms of content watched each month for the second year in a row.
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The ‘Anonymous’ Chat App Yik Yak is Back
Good news, fellow millennials. Yik Yak — the anonymous messaging app once popular with college students across the country — is back. Roughly four years after the company’s co-founders announced the app’s shutdown, the company’s Twitter account sprang back to life on Monday to announce the app was back for a new generation of Yakkers.
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TikTok’s Algorithm and AI Tech Are Now up for Sale
Now anyone can tap into the secret sauce behind ByteDance’s globally successful TikTok app — for a price. The China-based company quietly launched a new BytePlus division back in June focused on selling TikTok’s artificial intelligence technology, including the popular recommendation algorithm behind its ForYou feed, to businesses worldwide, the Financial Times reported Sunday.