The deal is undisclosed but sources tell TechCrunch that Bytedance, the company behind China’s top news aggregator service Toutiao, will pay between $800 million and $1 billion to buy Musical.ly ...

Musical.ly, which is based in Shanghai, is being acquired by Bytedance, an artificial intelligence-focused Chinese technology company. In the foreground, the mascot for Live.ly, a live-streaming app.

ByteDance executive Louis Yang Luyu, co-founder of lip-synch video app Musical.ly that was absorbed by TikTok in 2018, has quit the world's most valuable unicorn amid a sweeping corporate ...

Musical.ly Owner Merges App With TikTok. Bytedance, which purchased Musical.ly for about $800 million in 2017, has merged the music-centric app with another product, TikTok.

China's Beijing Bytedance Technology Co announced late Wednesday that it is shuttering the popular Musical.ly video app it acquired for nearly $1 billion in December and will move users to a ...

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Louis Yang, a co-founder of Musical.ly -- the app acquired by ByteDance in 2017 and merged with TikTok -- quit his job at the Beijing-based firm last week, according to a person familiar with the ...

ByteDance was founded by Zhang Yiming, a former Microsoft employee, ... It also bought popular lip syncing app musical.ly, and moved those users onto TikTok in 2018.

In August 2018, Musical.ly became TikTok overnight. ... ByteDance has a very different point of view, which is that what you care about has nothing to do with what your friends care about.

Donald Trump hints at extending ByteDance's TikTok sale deadline, after twice delaying a ban initially set under the 2023 law ...

ByteDance executive Louis Yang Luyu, co-founder of lip-synch video app Musical.ly that was absorbed by TikTok in 2018, has quit the world’s most valuable unicorn amid a sweeping corporate ...