Among other things, Walmart could use TikTok to promote sellers from its online marketplace, which it’s trying to develop to rival Amazon.
29 Aug 2020 8:25 PM
Already business partners, Microsoft provides cloud computing services that help run the retailer’s stores and online shopping.
28 Aug 2020 3:36 PM
Some videos are dangerously close or already beyond the border of trivialisation of history, the Auschwitz Memorial said on Twitter.
27 Aug 2020 1:26 PM
In a letter to employees, Kevin Mayer said that his decision to leave comes after the “political environment has sharply changed.”
27 Aug 2020 12:33 PM
US WeChat Users Alliance says many American Chinese people rely on the app for work, worship and staying in touch with relatives in China.
23 Aug 2020 4:46 PM
The short-video app also deleted 64,000 comments for being hateful, the company said.
21 Aug 2020 5:47 PM
The company, owned by China-based ByteDance, also launched a new @tiktok_comms Twitter account to address issues in real time.
18 Aug 2020 8:58 PM
The order states that ByteDance must sell its interest in the karaoke video US app Musical.ly that it bought and merged with TikTok.
15 Aug 2020 6:00 PM
Where India could have leverage with China is not in manipulating ByteDance’s revenues but if it got into the semiconductor space.
15 Aug 2020 4:04 PM
As the President's executive order prohibits any transaction by any person with TikTok, its US employees stand to lose their jobs.
14 Aug 2020 11:13 AM
Moj says its focus is on building and expanding the creator ecosystem, with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
13 Aug 2020 5:09 PM
Twitter’s bid is a long shot, but it believes it would face less antitrust scrutiny than larger corporations such as Microsoft.
09 Aug 2020 3:51 PM
China’s restrictions on foreign tech firms helped nurture homegrown tech giants. Now the US is putting its own limits on China.
08 Aug 2020 7:40 PM
Trump’s order appears to formalise his threat to shut down TikTok unless Microsoft or some other American company buys it by September 15.
07 Aug 2020 1:57 PM
Analysts say the deal could result in data nationalism and have far-reaching effects.
06 Aug 2020 8:19 PM
Zhang Yiming has been given just six weeks to find a buyer for the app in the United States or have it banned in its second largest market.
06 Aug 2020 7:05 PM
The President sometimes floats ideas or actions that get set aside without follow-through.
05 Aug 2020 11:31 PM
Microsoft has had limited success in social media, although it did acquire the business-focused network LinkedIn.
05 Aug 2020 6:13 PM
The US president has set a deadline of September 15 for TikTok to sell its US business or stop operations in the country.
04 Aug 2020 8:20 PM
Tech giant says will “build on the experience TikTok users love, while adding world-class security, privacy, and digital safety protections.
03 Aug 2020 10:54 AM