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TikTok copycats on a hot tin roof

At a time when an app fetches 100 million sign-ups in five days flat, three years can feel like a lifetime in tech. It was, then, a lifetime ago that Geet last went live on TikTok. On June 29, 2020, around midnight, the infotainment content…

Livestreaming apps take off; some see red

The surge of live-streaming apps that host content mostly by women — gyrating to film hits, doing their makeup, lounging around speaking about their day and sometimes enticing their audience with the promise of private time on video calls —…