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From Facebook to Twitter, Big Tech sees social commerce driving sales growth
Led by Facebook, social media platforms from YouTube to Snap and Twitter are investing heavily in shopping features to drive revenue growth, a major theme that emerged during secon...
Beyond the meme: finance gets serious on going viral
Ian Rogers used to be in charge of digital strategy for luxury fashion group LVMH. Now he has a new mission: to sprinkle some aspirational glitz on to French cryptocurrency company...
US appeals courts dismiss government’s appeals of TikTok rulings
Two US appeals courts dismissed the Justice’s Department’s legal challenges to court rulings that barred a Trump-era effort to ban new downloads of Chinese-owned video-...
Facebook and Instagram will invest over $1 billion in content creators
Facebook will spend a cool $1 billion on social media creators through the end of 2022 in a fight for talent. The announcement comes in a week when TikTok became the first rival mo...
TikTok tells employees to return to office for three days a week
Popular short-video app TikTok has told its employees that some will be offered the option to work remotely for up to two days a week after they return to office, according to an i...
TikTok lets users apply for jobs with video resumes
Short-video sharing app TikTok has launched a pilot program that lets users upload video resumes for US-based jobs ranging from a WWE Superstar to a senior data engineer at Shopify...
German privacy tsar tells ministries to shut Facebook pages
German government organisations have until the end of the year to close their Facebook pages after the data protection commissioner found the social network had failed to change it...
LinkedIn signs up to EU code against online hate speech
LinkedIn has signed up to the European Union’s voluntary code of conduct to combat illegal hate speech online, joining its parent Microsoft, Facebook and YouTube.
Pressure: US removes TikTok and WeChat from prohibited transactions list
The US Commerce Department announced it was rescinding a list of prohibited transactions with TikTok and WeChat that were issued in September as the Trump administration sought to ...
Chinese apps could face subpoenas or bans under Biden order
US President Biden’s executive order aimed at safeguarding Americans’ sensitive data would force some Chinese apps to take tougher measures to protect private informati...
TikTok owner ByteDance’s 2020 revenue soars, net loss at $45 billion
TikTok owner ByteDance’s total revenue more than doubled last year to $34.3 billion but its net loss widened to $45 billion, according to a company memo seen by journalists.
Frequent run-ins with India gov’t cloud US tech expansion plans
Another spat between India’s government and U.S. big tech has exacerbated disillusion among firms which have spent billions to build hubs in their largest growth market, to t...
Biden drops Trump attempt to ban TikTok, WeChat; orders new review
The Biden – Harris White House has withdrawn a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok, and ordered a Commerce Department r...
Facebook’s global ads chief Everson leaves company
Facebook Inc ads chief Carolyn Everson is leaving the company, she said in a post on the social media platform on Wednesday.