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Byte, a 6-seconds video-sharing app created by the co-founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann, has been launched on Apple‘s App Store and Google Play. Interestingly, Byte is now among the most downloaded apps in both stores despite the flaws it has. As such, the app could potentially meet its aim to rival ByteDance‘sTikTok, a video sharing platform valued at $75 billion.Byte Launches on Apple and Google StoresOn January 24, 2020, Byte was launched on Apple App Store and Google Play Store.Reportedly, the...

TikTok is the video app popular among Generation Z ( the demographic cohort succeeding the Millennials, or Generation Y. Demographers and researchers typically use this term speaking about the mid- to late-1990s as starting birth years). The app is best known for its viral dancing and singing challenges, is obviously now a number one entertainment app on Apple‘s App Store for example.But let’s start from the beginning. There are many social media nowadays but few have the chance to get...

Instagram’s Boomerang has received an upgrade. Apart from looping, users of the social networking platform will be able to do a bit more with their videos. The platform has introduced new tools to try to compete with TikTok.The features have been expected by many users. One of the features is the trimming effect. This improves playback control for videos when editing. Other effects include “SlowMo” which reduces playback by 50%, “Echo” which produces blurry playback and “Duo” which produces...

In a new twist of a series of events, it has emerged that Bytedance, the owner of TikTok, the popular Chinese video-sharing social video sharing network, has registered a new company.Sources indicate that Bytedance in association with Shanghai Dongfang Newspaper Co. registered a company earlier this month named Pengpai Audiovisual Technology Co. The company is said to offer several blockchain technology development services, AI public services, internet data services, AI application...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Thursday it is considering the possibility to seek a preliminary injunction against social network Facebook Inc., claiming it is acting anticompetitive by integrating other social apps in its network.Besides its social network, the tech giant owns Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp and this injunction wants to ban Facebook from further integrating new applications.According to a Wall Street Journal, in a situation where this would become an...

Even though the world of social media is a global affair, all fingers are certainly not equal and like any other consumer market, various platforms fight for dominance among users with some faring better than others. Facebook, in particular, has been a mainstay within the social media market for over a decade and this includes Facebook itself as well as Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp and so on. However, there is a new crop of social media platforms that threaten its dominance and are reaching...

An American photo and video-sharing social networking platform Instagram is going to compete with Chinese TikTok. Instagram has decided to launch Reels — a new video and music feature for Instagram Stories. This service allows users to enjoy working with different tools for editing videos, create 15-second clips using an extensive music catalog, and share them on Instagram Stories. It is notable that Reels is similar to the TikTok app in its functioning.According to the TechCrunch report,...

Sensor Tower, a company that supplies publishers and marketers with the information needed to enhance the mobile app ecosystem, revealed the latest data. According to this information, in the third quarter of this year, people spent around $21.9 bln on gaming and non-gaming apps on such platforms as the App Store and Google Play. The report shows a 22.9% YoY rise from the $17.9 bln in the same period of 2018.Please, pay your attention that the data here is provided for the third quarter of...