Tag: TikTok
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Reddit launches a TikTok-like video feed on iOS
According to 9To5Mac, if the interface looks familiar, that's because it is inspired by TikTok
August 15, 2021 -
TikTok overtakes FB as world’s most downloaded app
The app's popularity grew during the pandemic, when it became the leading download in Europe, South America and the US
August 10, 2021 -
US President Biden repeals Trump-era executive orders targetting TikTok, WeChat
It is to be noted that Trump signed executive orders prohibiting transactions with TikTok, WeChat, and eight other communications and financial technology software applications citing national securty concerns.
June 10, 2021 -
EU guidelines steps up action want to demonetise disinformation
The Commission also wants social media sites to improve the transparency of political ads, including by properly labelling paid-for content and allowing users to see who is providing those ads.
May 27, 2021 -
TikTok to launch jobs service, report
TikTok will ask candidates to post their resume videos to their TikTok profiles, if they wish, to help publicise the new service.
May 12, 2021 -
YouTube Shorts app hits 6.5B daily views
YouTube had rolled out the Shorts app feature in India last September.
April 28, 2021 -
TikTok illegally collecting kids data, Reports
Despite a minimum age requirement of 13, the UK's communications regulator Ofcom found last year that 42 per cent of eight to 12-year-olds in the UK used TikTok the report said.
April 22, 2021 -
India sees biggest surge in people spending time on apps
As in so many areas, China's breakout app chart is unique and quite different from the rest of the world.
April 9, 2021 -
Centre may permanently ban TikTok, WeChat, 57 other Chinese apps
The ministry had temporarily banned 59 Chinese apps including Baidu, TikTok, UC Browser, WeChat among others, citing security of the state and public order as its reason.
January 26, 2021 -
Second US judge rules against Trump administration’s restrictions on TikTok
US District Judge Carl Nichols said that "the government likely exceeded IEEPA's express limitations."
December 8, 2020 -
ByteDance gets seven more days for sale of TikTok’s US biz
If the revised proposal submitted by ByteDance is rejected by the Trump administration, TikTok could be effectively banned in the US.
November 26, 2020 -
ByteDance will not sell TikTok’s US operations to Oracle or Microsoft: Report
The CGTN in its report said that it "has learned from sources that ByteDance will also not sell TikTok's US operations to Oracle".
September 14, 2020 -
Amid TikTok sale, another Chinese tech firm sells US operations
Shiji Group, a China-based global hospitality technology provider which has Kempinski hotel as one of its clients, said on Tuesday that its board has approved the decision to sell its 100 per cent controlled US subsidiary StayNTouch to MRC, a US hotel operating company, after a White House administrative order, reports The Global Times
September 2, 2020 -
Walmart teams up with Microsoft in bid for TikTok
This latest development came hours after TikTok’s chief executive Kevin Mayer left the company after serving for a period of three months.
August 28, 2020 -
ByteDance’s major investors are key source of Oracle’s TikTok bid: Report
Only a few days ago Oracle emerged as a potential company, other than Microsoft, to acquire TikTok’s US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand operations.
August 25, 2020 -
Oracle reportedly in talks to acquire TikTok’s US operations
According to the report, Oracle was working with a group of US investors that already own a stake in ByteDance.
August 18, 2020 -
Donald Trump orders ByteDance to sell its TikTok business in US in 90 days, cites national security
In an earlier order issued on August 7, Trump prohibited the China-based company from doing business with US firms after 45 days.
August 15, 2020