Musical.ly, the popular social media app for children that is now known as TikTok, illegally took personal information from kids without parental consent, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday.

Before Mark Cuban ever hit the "woah" on TikTok with his daughter, the video-sharing app was Musical.ly and Cuban wanted to be an investor. "I remember when it was Musical.ly and I tried to invest… Oh ...

The operator of a video-sharing app popular with teenagers agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle federal allegations it illegally collected personal information from children. The Federal Trade ...

Before he was a member of the Sway House — an L.A.-based, fratlike collective of steely jawed TikTokers who make ungodly amounts of money gyrating into their camera phones — Blake Gray was the ...

The settlement marks the largest civil penalty the FTC has ever collected in a children’s privacy case. Musical.ly, which is now known as TikTok, allows users to create videos and sync them with music ...

Launched in October 2014, Musical.ly is a free iPhone and Android application that allows users to create 15-second-long music videos to a variety of songs. You’ve probably seen a handful of them on ...

The Musical.ly app has now effectively been absorbed into the TikTok app, following the acquisition of the former by the owners of the latter – as a result the new app is keeping the same “TikTok” ...

"Do it for the Vine" was the unofficial slogan of the now-defunct, once wildly popular short-form video app Vine. You'd hear people shout it from behind their phone cameras as they filmed their ...

He is one of the most popular people on the lip syncing app. By Natalie Jarvey Jacob Sartorius-Publicity - S 2016 First YouTube spawned stars, then Vine. Now the two-year-old app musical.ly is ...

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2018 photo, Matty Nev Luby holds her phone and logs into the lip-sync smartphone app Musical.ly, in Wethersfield, Conn. The operator of the video-sharing app popular with ...