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Launched in early 2020, the app saw global user numbers soar earlier this month after Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev held a surprise discussion on the platform.

Print Now, the viral video-sharing app seems to have rebounded. This month, TikTok announced an expanded partnership with Universal Music Group, accessing all of its music catalog, a blow to its archrival, L.A.-based Triller. The company, which has a large presence in Culver City, continues to generate buzzworthy pop culture trends; for example, what began as videos suggesting songs for a musical about the popular Pixar movie “Ratatouille” became a real virtual musical last month starring...

Douyin, with its overseas version called TikTok, remained the top grossing non-gaming app worldwide in January, according to Sensor Tower, a mobile app data analysis firm.

ByteDance will not sell TikTok India to Glance Just like the U.S., the Indian government has been clamping down on Chinese companies citing national security. As of now, hundreds of Chinese apps can not be used in India and the country is banning more. Due to this trouble, some of these companies are forced to consider selling their Indian business to local competitors. Over the past few days, there have been reports that ByteDance will sell TikTok‘s Indian business to a local competitor, Gla...

Big Tech’s Unlikely Next Battleground: North Dakota A vote on a bill this week is part of a movement that could cost Apple and Google billions of dollars. State legislatures are becoming the fight’s new front. Kyle Davison, a North Dakota state senator, said he never expected the strong reaction to his proposed law that takes aim at Apple’s and Google’s practice of taking a cut of many app sales.Credit...Dan Koeck for The New York Times Feb. 14, 2021 Last month, a lobbyist a...

Desi app Leher rides Clubhouse wave Top Searches Desi app Leher rides Clubhouse wave Sindhu Hariharan / TNN / Updated: Feb 13, 2021, 11:52 IST FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail (Representative image) CHENNAI: Indian alternatives to social networks are now ready to breach the next frontier of audio/video discussion platforms. Filling the void of in-person interactions in the post-Covid world, US-based drop-in audio chat app Clubhouse has taken Silicon Valley by storm, and there’s a stampede among m...

U.S. audio app Clubhouse said it is reviewing its data protection practices, after a report by the Stanford Internet Observatory said it contained security flaws that left users data vulnerable... | February 16, 2021

Clubhouse had a $1 billion valuation before it had a business plan.

Clubhouse says reviewing data protection practices after report points to flaws Reuters 2/13/2021 SHANGHAI, Feb 13 (Reuters) - U.S. audio app Clubhouse said it is reviewing its data protection practices, after a report by the Stanford Internet Observatory said it contained security flaws that left users data vulnerable to access by the Chinese government. The app said in a response to the study, published by the research group at Stanford University, that while it had opted not to make the ap...

This Week in Apps: Bumble’s IPO, Google’s missing privacy labels, a developer crusades against scams Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app ...