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Lemon8
Lemon8 is a social media app owned by Heliophilia Pte. Ltd., a Singaporean company connected to the Chinese internet company ByteDance. It was launched in 2020 and modeled after Xiaohongshu. History The app was first launched in Japan in May 2020 under the name Sharee, and hit 1 million downloads in March 2022. It launched in the United States and United Kingdom in February 2023, resulting in it becoming one of the most-downloaded apps on App Store in the United States a month later following influencer marketing campaigns. In November 2024, Lemon8 began to be integrated with TikTok, allowing users to link their profiles between the services and find their followers. Content Lemon8 has been compared to Instagram, Pinterest, and Chinese app Xiaohongshu (also known as RED or RedNote outside of China), with a particular focus on lifestyle content targeting women (such as beauty, food, and home decor). Ownership While Lemon8 is credited as being a product of Heliophilia Pte. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ByteDance
ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing, and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo, and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing apps TikTok, Douyin. The company is also the developer of the news platform Toutiao, the video-editing app CapCut, and Lemon8 which is a video sharing mobile app. ByteDance has attracted regulatory and media attention in several countries over security, surveillance, and censorship concerns. History In 2009, software engineer and entrepreneur Zhang Yiming collaborated with his friend Liang Rubo to co-found 99fang.com, a real estate search engine. In early 2012, the pair rented an apartment in Zhongguancun and, along with several other 99fang employees, began developing an app that would use big data algorithms to classify news according to users' preferences, which would later become Toutiao. That March, Yiming and Liang founded By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), signed into law on April 24, 2024, bans social networking services within 270 days defined as an "foreign adversary controlled application" if the president deems them a national security threat, with a possible 90-day extension. The act explicitly applies to ByteDance, ByteDance Ltd. and its subsidiaries, particularly TikTok, with the company to become compliant by January 19, 2025. It ceases to be applicable if the foreign adversary controlled application is divested and no longer considered to be controlled by a United States foreign adversaries#Other meanings, foreign adversary. PAFACA was introduced as H.R. 7521 during the 118th United States Congress by United States House of Representatives, representatives Mike Gallagher (American politician), Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi, following Restrictions on TikTok in the United States, years of various attempts by federal lawmakers to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
