In recent years, data analysts have gone from optional to a career that holds great promise, but demand for quantitative skills applied in business decisions has raced ahead of supply as college curriculum often lags behind the fast-changing workplace. CareerTu, a New York-based startup launched by a former marketing manager at Amazon, aims to close […]
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Daily Crunch: TikTok faces children’s privacy fine
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. FTC ruling sees Musical.ly (TikTok) fined $5.7M for violating children’s privacy law, app updated with age gate In an app update […]
View More Daily Crunch: TikTok faces children’s privacy fineTikTok is giving China a video chat alternative to WeChat
ByteDance, the world’s most-valued startup, just launched a new social media product under its Douyin brand in what many people see as a serious attempt to challenge WeChat. Tencent has long dominated China’s social networking space with WeChat and QQ. WeChat claims to have one billion monthly active users worldwide, most of whom are in China. […]
View More TikTok is giving China a video chat alternative to WeChatTikTok parent ByteDance said to raise $1.45 billion for AI and content
ByteDance, the Chinese company behind the immensely popular video app TikTok, is in talks to raise $1.45 billion for a new fund, The Information reported on Friday citing sources. The fresh vehicle will help power artificial intelligence and media content for the $75 billion startup, which reportedly leapfrogged Uber’s valuation after raising $3 billion in October. ByteDance declined […]
View More TikTok parent ByteDance said to raise $1.45 billion for AI and contentChina’s hottest news app Jinri Toutiao announces new CEO
You may not have heard of ByteDance, but you probably know its red-hot video app TikTok, which gobbled up Musical.ly in August. The Beijing-based company also runs a popular news aggregator called Jinri Toutiao, which means “today’s headlines” in Chinese, and the app just assigned a new CEO. At a company event on Saturday, Chen Lin, an […]
View More China’s hottest news app Jinri Toutiao announces new CEOChina’s ByteDance leapfrogs Uber to becomes world’s most valuable startup
Move aside Uber, China’s ByteDance is now the world’s highest-valued tech startup. That’s according to reports from Forbes and Bloomberg both of which claim that the company has completed a $3 billion investment that values the company at $75 billion. A source with knowledge of the deal confirmed the round to TechCrunch and suggested that […]
View More China’s ByteDance leapfrogs Uber to becomes world’s most valuable startupFacebook is working on a music app to rival TikTok: report
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Facebook wants those teens back, and music might be the answer.
The social media giant is creating a standalone video music app that is set to rival TikTok (a.k.a. Musical.ly), according to a report by TechCrunch.
Facebook, usually not averse to looking to others for inspiration, has apparently codenamed the project “Lasso.” The app is set to be full-screen and directed at teens, much like TikTok is already, according to a source who spoke to the outlet.
“A lot of what they’re doing is just trying to be cool and trying to be something that Facebook isn’t,” the source said. Read more…
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View More Facebook is working on a music app to rival TikTok: reportThe investors and founders of Yellow, 99 Taxis and Didi will talk about the new mobility race at Startup Battlefield Latin America
In the nine months since Didi acquired the Brazilian ride-hailing startup 99 in a deal that valued the company at a reported $1 billion, the market for mobility and logistics startups in the Latin American region has changed dramatically. The Didi deal was perhaps the first big acquisition for a Latin American startup in recent […]
View More The investors and founders of Yellow, 99 Taxis and Didi will talk about the new mobility race at Startup Battlefield Latin AmericaMusical.ly investor bets on internet radio with $17M deal for Korea’s Spoon Radio
One of the early backers of Musical.ly, the short video app that was acquired for $1 billion, is making a major bet that internet radio is one of the next big trends in media. Goodwater Capital, one of a number of backers that won big when ByteDance acquired Musical.ly last year, has joined forces with […]
View More Musical.ly investor bets on internet radio with $17M deal for Korea’s Spoon RadioAt Disrupt, Hans Tung and Yi Wang will talk about the startup road winding from China to the US
Few investors have as deep a knowledge of the U.S. and Chinese markets as Hans Tung. For over a decade the prodigious investor (now with GGV Capital) has been racking up the miles on flights between San Francisco, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Beijing and New York in search of startups that can span the Pacific divide […]
View More At Disrupt, Hans Tung and Yi Wang will talk about the startup road winding from China to the USFast-growing Chinese media startup ByteDance is raising $2.5B-$3B more
Fast-growing Chinese media startup ByteDance is looking to raise as much as $3 billion to continue growth for its empire of mobile-based entertainment apps, which include news aggregator Toutiao and video platform Tiktok. The Beijing-based startup is in early-stage talks with investors to raise $2.5 billion to $3 billion, according to a source with knowledge […]
View More Fast-growing Chinese media startup ByteDance is raising $2.5B-$3B moreShort video service Musical.ly is merging into sister app TikTok
Musical.ly, the short video app that’s popular among teens and young people, is going away. Kinda of. The app and all user data and accounts is being merged with Toktok, a sister app that’s owned by ByteDance, the Chinese company that acquired Musical.ly for around $1 billion last year. The switch-over happens today (Thursday) and it […]
View More Short video service Musical.ly is merging into sister app TikTok