Facebook-owned Instagram last week joined the short-form video fray with a new product, ‘Reels’, which lets users record videos of up to 15 seconds and provides TikTok-style tools for editing, audio and effects. — AFP
PARIS: Triller, Byte, Dubsmash and now Instagram – there’s no shortage of rivals circling to grab a slice of troubled TikTok’s teen-centric platform for short-form videos, but can any of them come out on top?
US President Donald Trump’s offensive against two major Chinese Internet brands, including TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, has opened the door to competitors even if TikTok itself manages to find a buyer for its US operations by a mid-September deadline.
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