San Francisco, December 28 (IANS) Social media giants like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube collectively made nearly $11 billion in advertising revenue from US-based user
London, October 28 (AP): British lawmakers are set to grill Facebook and other tech giants Thursday over how they handle online safety as European efforts to regulate social media companies gain momentum.
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Chinese short-video making app TikTok has announced a new licensing agreement with Sony Music Entertainment (SME).
As part of the deal whose financial details were not disclosed, TikTok will continue to offe
Look who is not freaking out.
Since July, TikTok users have braced for a threatened ban of the ultra-popular short-form video app in the United States, with some opening accounts on rival platforms and encou
Beijing, September 14 (IANS): In an interesting development, ByteDance has reportedly said it will neither sell TikTok's US operations to Oracle nor give the source code to any US buyers, state-owned China
WASHINGTON, August 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday sweeping bans on U.S. transactions with China’s ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok, and Tencent (0700.HK), operato
SAN FRANCISCO, AUGUST 3 (IANS): Microsoft has officially confirmed it is in talks to acquire the operations of video-sharing platform TikTok in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand markets following a conv
WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters): The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve a bill from Republican Senator Josh Hawley that would ban fe
New Delhi, July 21 (PTI): After banning 59 apps of Chinese origin, the government on Tuesday directed them to ensure strict compliance to its orders, and warned of serious action in case of any violation, accor
ISLAMABAD, July 21 (Reuters): Pakistan's telecommunications regulator issued a "final warning" to short-form video app TikTok on Monday over explicit content posted on the platform, while liv
NEW DELHI, JULY 8 (IANS): With the ban on TikTok creating a huge vacuum for the 15-second videos in the Indian Internet space, Facebook-owned Instagram on Wednesday announced the extension of the testing of Ree
NEW DELHI, JULY 1 (IANS): Giving a clear signal for greater support to startups working towards enriching the digital universe, Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday that whi
NEW DELHI, JULY 1 (IANS): TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer on Wednesday said that the company is working with various stakeholders to address the concerns raised by the Indian government, and remain committed to support
Washington, June 21 (Reuters): TikTok users and Korean pop music fans are being partly credited for inflating attendance expectations at a less-than-full arena at President Donald Trump's first political ra