Lip-syncing app Musical.ly has been sold to Chinese news firm Bytedance, reportedly for as much as $1 billion. A karaoke-style smartphone app that lets you create your own short music videos, ...

After completely changing what it means to be a viral music star in today’s ever-evolving social media-focused world, Musical.ly has been sold for a hefty sum, though exactly how much appears to be ...

Musical.ly is merging the functionality from its two-year old live-streaming platform Live.ly into its main app, and has disabled Live.ly’s standalone app as part of the transition process. The ...

美国总统特朗普签署行政命令，明确中国公司字节跳动对美国视频应用Musical.ly的收购可能殃及美国的国家安全，下令字节跳动剥离Musical.ly的美国资产，并销毁用户数据。 特朗普总统14日晚间签署的行政命令指出，有可信的证据显示字节跳动通过对Musical.ly的收购 ...

Musical.ly, the social-video sharing and lip-syncing app maker, is killing off Live.ly two years after it launched the standalone app for live-streaming video. Instead, Musical.ly will merge the ...

Bytedance, China‘s giant digital-content aggregator, is set to acquire U.S.-based social video app Musical.ly, the companies confirmed on Friday in Asia. Bytedance described the deal as a “merger” and ...

Musical.ly has been in the news recently as a result of its acquisition by Chinese company Toutiao for a reported $1 billion. But before the company was a success story, it was a startup struggling to ...

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When Musical.ly shut down two-year-old live streaming app Live.ly in June, it told former members that they should move to Musical.ly which would get live video streaming in a few weeks. That plan ...

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2018 photo, Matty Nev Luby holds her phone and logs into the lip-sync smartphone app Musical.ly, in Wethersfield, Conn. The operator of the video-sharing app popular with ...

AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- A suburban man has pleaded guilty after prosecutors said he posed as a 13-year-old on social media and allegedly threatened to kill girls if they didn't send inappropriate photos ...

Before he was a member of the Sway House — an L.A.-based, fratlike collective of steely jawed TikTokers who make ungodly amounts of money gyrating into their camera phones — Blake Gray was the ...