Facebook plans to launch TikTok's laso app in new countries |
According to a report, Facebook plans to launch its "Lasso" app this year, which will compete with the well-known short video sharing (TikTok) app in the new country.
Entrackr said: The social media giant plans to launch the app in 2018 in the United States for the first time after the launch of the Lasso app in Mexico last year. The program plans to launch the Lasso app in India in mid-2020.
According to Sensor Tower, the app has been downloaded nearly 500,000 times in the U.S. and 2.2 million times in Mexico.
With the launch of the Lasso app, which has more than 627 million Internet users in India, Facebook is believed to want to attract millions of users, especially given Indian users' interest in the Tik Tok app, which is only downloaded in India. 1.5 billion times, including 500 million downloads in India. all over the world. It is also believed that launching the app can be a huge challenge to Facebook, as it will be extremely difficult to compete with Chinese apps with 200 million Indian users.
However, Facebook could benefit from the controversial Tik Tok app in India in 2019 after authorities asked Google and Apple in April last year to remove the app due to a variety of platforms from Google Play stores and App Store delete. Porn on the site. Then, the ban was lifted.