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letsdothis2 ago

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/02/musically-tiktok/

Musical.ly, the short video app that’s popular among teens and young people, is going away. Kinda.

The app and all user data and accounts is being merged with Tiktok, a sister app that’s owned by ByteDance, the Chinese company that acquired Musical.ly for around $1 billion last year.

In China, the sister product is Douyin, while the company also offers news apps Toutiao in China and TopBuzz across the rest of the world.

Toutiao https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/toutiao#/entity

TouTiao is a recommendation system product based on data mining that recommends valuable, personalized information to users in China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toutiao

In 2012 and 2013, Toutiao had two earlier rounds of funding by SIG Asia Investment and Yuri Milner.

In 2014, Sequoia Capital led its Series C funding of 100 million USD at a valuation of 500 million USD, followed by Weibo.

Voat post: Show Dogs Movie Pulled from Theaters, Edited Amid Accusations it Groomed Kids for Pedophiles

"Donald Tang, former Bear Stearns money man in China, now wants to remake himself in Hollywood"

"A decade later, Tang, 54, is seeking to reinvent himself as a Hollywood player with the same calling card that propelled his rise in finance: bridge-building between industries in the East and the West. His 2-year-old Los Angeles film and TV firm, Tang Media Partners, with investors including Tencent and Sequoia Capital's Neil Shen, is trying to achieve an elusive goal long pursued by entertainment executives: create a film company that can both succeed in the U.S. and take advantage of the growing entertainment market in China." http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-donald-tang-hollywood-20170829-story.html

Silicon Spies: The US government and the tech revolution - https://www.corbettreport.com/silicon-spies-the-us-government-and-the-tech-revolution/

In 2000, an article in the Independent announced that the CIA was looking to invest in a search engine for managing, sorting and analyzing the ever-expanding information on the world wide web. Around the same time, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, two Silicon Valley VCs, invested $25 million in the brand new startup Google Inc. Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins are literally neighbors of In-Q-Tel in Menlo Park, and co-invested in numerous projects.

Here are 12 Bay Area companies the CIA has secretly steered funding to - https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2016/04/here-are-bay-area-companies-the-cia-has-secretly.html

[I can't see the entire article as I've reached my 3 article limit for the month but I can assure you Sequoia is on that list.]

People really need to f-ing wake up.