Picture sharing service Imgur has been acquired by MediaLab, which owns Kik, Whisper, Genius, WorldStarHipHop, and different manufacturers; Imgur says it has 300M customers (James Vincent/The Verge)

TikTok says it now has 1B MAUs  —  TikTok says it has crossed a key milestone: The social video app claims it now counts greater than 1 billion month-to-month energetic customers.  —  TikTok is the successor to Musical.ly, the short-form video app that was acquired by Chinese language web big ByteDance in 2017 …