is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Byte, a TikTok competitor, has been purchased by Clash, another TikTok competitor. Clash plans to ...

Apple is blocking US users from downloading or updating several ByteDance-owned apps, even when they have a valid Chinese App Store account.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clash, a creator monetization company, today announced it is purchasing the Byte app, a leading short-form video platform. Byte, which was the most downloaded app in the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Taylor Lorenz, The New York Times Co. Clash, a short-form video app that became available in August, announced this week that it had purchased Byte, ...

When the Trump administration announced it would ban TikTok in the U.S., a number of alternative short-form video apps began to flourish, as users hedged their bets on a potential TikTok exit. Among ...

Now they want to help users make money. By Taylor Lorenz Clash, a short-form video app that became available in August, announced today that it had purchased Byte, another short-form video app, ...

TikTok, the short-form video app known for dance challenges, viral trends and an algorithm said to know users better than they knew themselves, died in the U.S. Sunday. First launched in the United ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance is pushing another social media app in the U.S. — even as its flagship short video app TikTok faces a possible ban stateside. A combination of Pinterest and Instagram, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amid talk of a TikTok ban, its Chinese parent company ByteDance is pushing a new app in the US called Lemon8. Lemon8 uses the same ...

If there’s anyone at TNW who is really into what the hip kids are looking at, it’s Owen Williams. My Amsterdam-based colleague slipped a URL of an app launching today, Byte, into our Slack channel and ...

TikTok owner ByteDance has quietly launched a new app in the UK and the US called Lemon8. Creators said they're getting paid to post on the app, which they described as Instagram meets Pinterest.

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 economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as ...