Daily Crunch: YouTube’s TikTok rival launches in the US

YouTube Shorts comes to the U.S., Amazon starts testing electric delivery vans in San Francisco and new data suggests the impact of Google Play’s recent changes. This is your Daily Crunch for March 18, 2021. The big story: YouTube’s TikTok rival launches in the US The YouTube Shorts product allows users to record, edit and […]n”,”protected”:false,”author”:31035538,”featured_media”:2003560,”comment_status”:”open”,”ping_status”:”closed”,”sticky”:false,”template”:””,”format”:”standard”,”meta”:”outcome”:””,”status”:””,”crunchbase_tag”:0,”amp_status”:””,”relegenceEntities”:[],”relegenceSubjects”:[],”carmot_uuid”:”82c69a8e-d7b9-36fc-acf5-86653252628f”,”categories”:[329026,449557028,3457],”tags”:[961220,6567],”crunchbase_tag”:[],”tc_stories_tax”:[],”tc_ec_category”:[],”tc_event”:[],”jetpack_featured_media_url”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-1149449078-e1610399732853.jpg”,”shortlink”:”https://tcrn.ch/3tDArXB”,”rapidData”:”pt”:””,”pct”:””,”premiumContent”:false,”premiumCutoffPercent”:1,”featured”:false,”subtitle”:””,”seoTitle”:”YouTube’s TikTok rival launches in the US”,”seoDescription”:””,”tc_cb_mapping”:[],”associatedEvent”:null,”event”:null,”authors”:[31035538],”hide_featured_image”:false,”_links”:”self”:[“href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/2127291″],”collection”:[“href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts”],”about”:[“href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post”],”replies”:[“embeddable”:true,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/comments?post=2127291″],”version-history”:[“count”:1,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/2127291/revisions”],”predecessor-version”:[“id”:2127293,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/2127291/revisions/2127293″],”authors”:[“embeddable”:true,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/tc/v1/users/31035538″],”https://techcrunch.com/edit”:[“href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2127291&action=edit”],”author”:[“embeddable”:true,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/tc/v1/users/31035538″],”wp:featuredmedia”:[“embeddable”:true,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/media/2003560″],”wp:attachment”:[“href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/media?parent=2127291″],”wp:term”:[“taxonomy”:”category”,”embeddable”:true,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/categories?post=2127291″,”taxonomy”:”post_tag”,”embeddable”:true,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/tags?post=2127291″,”taxonomy”:”_tc_cb_tag_taxonomy”,”embeddable”:true,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/crunchbase_tag?post=2127291″,”taxonomy”:”tc_stories_tax”,”embeddable”:true,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/tc_stories_tax?post=2127291″,”taxonomy”:”tc_ec_category”,”embeddable”:true,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/tc_ec_category?post=2127291″,”taxonomy”:”tc_event”,”embeddable”:true,”href”:”https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/tc_event?post=2127291″],”curies”:[“name”:”wp”,”href”:”https://api.w.org/rel”,”templated”:true],”_embedded”:{“authors”:[“id”:31035538,”name”:”Anthony Ha”,”url”:””,”description”:””,”link”:”https://techcrunch.com/author/anthony-ha/”,”slug”:”anthony-ha”,”avatar_urls”:”24″:”https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72b358648f4587cc2a11895c32b8e979?s=24&d=identicon&r=g”,”48″:”https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72b358648f4587cc2a11895c32b8e979?s=48&d=identicon&r=g”,”96″:”https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72b358648f4587cc2a11895c32b8e979?s=96&d=identicon&r=g”,”links”:”facebook”:”https://www.facebook.com/anthonyha”,”twitter”:”https://twitter.com/anthonyha”,”linkedin”:”http://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyha”,”homepage”:””,”crunchbase”:”https://www.crunchbase.com/person/anthony-ha”,”position”:”Senior Writer”,”cbDescription”:”

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