bills such as the United States Innovation and Competition Act, American Innovation and Choice Online Act, and the annual National Defense Authorization Act. Products CapCut First released to the public in April 2020, CapCut is a video editing software made for beginners. Douyin First released to the public in September 2016, Douyin (), previously named A.me, is the Chinese version of TikTok. The application is a short-form video social media platform that differs from its international counterpart version by having more advanced features, such as e-commerce. TikTok and Douyin have almost the same user interface but no access to each other's content. Their servers are each based in the market where the respective app is available. Lark First released to the public in 2019, Lark is ByteDance's enterprise collaboration platform. Lark was originally developed as an internal tool, becoming ByteDance's primary internal communication and collaboration platform, but was eventually made available to external users in certain markets. TikTok First released to the public in September 2017, TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service used to make short-form videos, from genres like dance, comedy, and education. On 9 November 2017, ByteDance acquired Shanghai-based social media start-up Musical.ly for up to US$1 billion. They combined it and prior acquisition Flipagram into TikTok on 2 August 2018, keeping the TikTok name. Toutiao Toutiao (), launched in August 2012, started out as a news recommendation engine and gradually evolved into a platform delivering content in various formats, such as texts, images, question-and-answer posts, microblogs, and videos. In January 2014, the company created the "Toutiaohao" () platform to attract more content creators. Later in the year, it added video capabilities. Toutiao used interest-based and decentralized distribution to help long tail content creators find an audience. In 2017, Toutiao acquired Flipagram. ByteDance would later expand Toutiao's features to include: a missing person alerts project whose alerts have helped find 13,116 missing persons as of June 2020; short-form video platform Toutiao Video, later rebranded as Xigua Video (西瓜视频, also known as Watermelon Video), which hosts video clips that are on average 2–5 minutes long; and Toutiao Search, a search engine. Xigua Video Initially launched as Toutiao Video in 2016, Xigua Video () is an online video-sharing platform that features user-created short and mid-length videos and also produces film and television content. Nuverse Initially launched in 2019, Nuverse has launched as a video game publisher company. The first