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17 is a free mobile app similar to Periscope and Instagram designed by a Taiwan pop singer Jeffery Huang. It includes live video streaming, instant photo and video sharing functions. It is used in both iOS and Android smartphone systems. The aim of ''17 app'' is to create an "easy to use, instant to share, customer equality and interest sharing" content sharing platform. It was first launched in Apple App Store on 5 June 2015, and sooner in Play Store on 10 June 2015. Due to nudity coupled with sex issues, it has been temporarily removed from both platforms in 23 September 2015(Play Store) 〔 〕 and 28 September 2015 (Apple App Store) respectively. Recently, the app has been re-released in Apple App Store on 28 October 2015 Since the app featured many Asian celebrities and profit sharing incentives 〔 it then quickly became the most popular app in Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia 〔 with approximately 700 thousand daily active users.〔 == Background of the founder == Jeffrey Huang (黃立成), a Taiwanese American, was a former member of a well-known Taiwan hip-hop group, the “L.A. Boyz”. He is the Leader of the Taiwan hip-hop group currently, Machi.''Jeffrey'' was born to a family in Huwei Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan on 7 November 1972. When he was two, his family migrated to California, USA. Finding no interest in studying, he did not go for advanced education in college, but went back to his place of birth – Taiwan, to start his music career with his younger brother, Stanley Huang (黃立行) and his cousin, Steven Lam (林智文). In 1998, Jeffrey Huang set up an internet service provider company aimed at translating websites in the US. The company had 80 workers at its peak and gained about 7 million US dollars profit. He then sold the company to a Japan company during the times of “Dot-com Bubble”. The close down of his first company marked the start of his IT business. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「17 (app)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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