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Today, Twitter announced that it is acquiring Squad and that the team from the screen-sharing social app will be joining Twitter’s ranks. Squad’s co-founders, CEO Esther Crawford and CTO Ethan Sutin, and the rest of the team will be coming aboard inside Twitter’s design, engineering and product departments, Twitter tells us. Crawford specifically notes that […]

Twitter acquires screen-sharing social app Squad

This entry was posted in Apps microblogging operating systems real time Web Social software Squad TC text messaging Venture Capital vine and tagged snapchat social media twitter on December 11, 2020 by Lucas Matney

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey might not spend six months a year in Africa, claims the real product development is under the hood, and gives an excuse for deleting Vine before it could become TikTok. Today he tweeted, via Twitter’s investor relations account, a multi-pronged defense of his leadership and the company’s progress. The proclamations come […]

Twitter CEO’s weak argument why investors shouldn’t fire him

This entry was posted in Advertising Tech Apps augmented reality Drama Finance jack dorsey Mobile Policy Social Square TC vine and tagged twitter on March 5, 2020 by Josh Constine

Lip-syncing app Dubsmash was on the brink of death. After a brief moment of virality in 2015 alongside Vine (R.I.P), Dubsmash was bleeding users faster than it could recruit them. The app let you choose an audio track like a rap song or movie quote and shoot a video of you pretending to say the […]

How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC vine on January 31, 2020 by Josh Constine

Two years after Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android. Byte lets you shoot or upload and then share six-second videos. The tiny time limit necessitates no-filler content that’s denser than the maximum 1-minute clips on TikTok. Byte […]

Vine reboot Byte officially launches

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC vine on January 24, 2020 by Josh Constine

Is Facebook preparing to launch a serious competitor to TikTok? If so, the company just picked up some key talent to make that happen. Last week, Facebook announced plans for a new division, called the NPE Team, which will build experimental consumer-focused apps where it will try different ideas and features, then see how people […]

Facebook snags former Vine GM to run product for its ...

This entry was posted in Apps Social Video vine YouTube and tagged facebook google on July 15, 2019 by Sarah Perez

Twitter shut down Dom Hoffman’s app Vine, giving away the short-form video goldmine to China’s TikTok. Now a year and half since Hoffman announced he’d reimagine the app as V2 then scrapped that name, his follow-up to Vine called Byte has finally sent out the first 100 invites to its closed beta. Byte will let […]

Vine reboot Byte begins beta testing

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social Startups TC vine on April 22, 2019 by Josh Constine

First, don’t call it “Vine Two”. Details are starting to emerge about v2, the forthcoming video app built to replace Vine by its former co-founder Dom Hofmann. TechCrunch has learned that v2 has begun reaching out to former Vine...

Here’s how Vine replacement v2 will work

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social Startups TC vine on January 23, 2018 by Josh Constine

HQ Trivia is letting Android users pre-register for the live-streamed trivia game built by the makers of Vine, Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll. Pre-registering means you’ll get notified the moment HQ Trivia is available for download. HQ, which ...