With concert venues closed, musical careers must be forged on streaming platforms instead. It’s been an awful year for the majority of artists who make most of their income from gigs and touring. Yet a small but growing number are harnessing the latest tech to break through on Spotify, YouTube and TikTok. […]
Microsoft is in talks to buy TikTok in US
Microsoft Corp. is exploring an acquisition of TikTok’s operations in the U.S., according to a people familiar with the matter. A deal would give the software company a popular social-media service and relieve U.S. government pressure on the Chinese owner of the video-sharing app. The Trump administration has been weighing […]
E-tailers in India begin work to list ‘country of origin’ labels on products
The Indian trade ministry’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), which hosted an online meeting of e-commerce players on Wednesday, wanted the changes to be implemented by the end of July. The companies, however, said they would need two to three months, according to the sources, who asked […]
US probing allegations TikTok violated children’s privacy
The Federal Trade Commission and the US Justice Department are looking into allegations that popular app TikTok failed to live up to a 2019 agreement aimed at protecting children’s privacy, according to two people interviewed by the agencies. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the United […]
TikTok says it will exit Hong Kong market within days
TikTok will exit the Hong Kong market within days, a spokesman told Reuters late on Monday, as other technology companies including Facebook Inc have suspended processing government requests for user data in the region. The short form video app owned by China-based ByteDance has made the decision to exit the […]
TikTok predicts over $6 bn loss from India’s ban
Chinese tech giant unicorn ByteDance Ltd. is anticipating a loss of over USD 6 billion after three of its apps, including the hugely popular video app TikTok, were banned by India this week, a media report here said. Besides Tiktok, India banned on Monday 58 other apps with Chinese links, including […]
TikTok rival, Mitron app has a major flaw
Mitron, the popular TikTok rival that has shot to fame in the past few days, apparently has a vulnerability that lets hackers take control of user accounts and even send messages on their behalf. In addition, the attacker can follow others using the hacked account or even comment, said cyber-security researcher Rahul […]
TikTok’s rival Mitron app not made in India, bought for Rs 2,500 from Pakistani company
Video-sharing app Mitron, which has recently been gaining steam as the rival to the popular Chinese app TikTok, is not really ‘made in India’, according to a report by News18. The Mitron app had garnered a lot of attention amid the growing clamour for ‘Make-in-India’ and ‘vocal for local’. However, the report says […]
TikTok star looks strikingly similar to Karisma Kapoor, fans are amazed
Just like the rest of us, celebrities have doppelgängers too, and we just stumbled upon Karisma Kapoor’s. TikTok star Heena, who has 2.4 million followers on the video-sharing platform, looks strikingly similar to the actor. Heena has been making the most of this resemblance, and makes lip-sync videos mouthing Karisma’s songs […]
Facebook launches another TikTok-inspired app called ‘Collab’
Facebook has launched a new experimental app which seems to be another take on TikTok. Called ‘Collab’, this app lets users upload videos of music they create which can be used by others on the platform. On Collab, users can create and upload short videos which will be split into three […]
TikTok rating improves as Google removes more reviews
TikTok rating on Google Play Store has fairly improved to 2.9 stars as more negative reviews have been taken down. The app’s reviews have now been reduced to 20 million on Google Play. TikTok received heavy backlash from people in India with trends to delete the app running on social […]
Uttarakhand: IIT Roorkee student’s TikTok clone app Mitron TV is riding high in downloads
There was a time when memers in India looked forward to Prime Minister Narendra Modi beginning his speeches with the word “Mitron”. Such is the popularity of the word and the love of Indians for TikTok, that an IIT Roorkee student Shivank Agarwal has reportedly built an app called Mitron TV and […]
TikTok to give you one-tap access to streaming app Resso
Music streaming app Resso launched in India earlier this year. At that point in time, the company had said that they had no plans of integrating with TikTok even though the format for both the apps had quite a few similarities. However, according to reports, there are new plans in the […]
Pooja Bhatt slams Faizal Siddiqui’s ‘depraved’ TikTok video
Actor-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt has slammed TikTok influencer Faizal Siddiqui’s controversial video, in which he has been accused of propagating violence against women. Pooja took to Twitter and wrote that TikTok needs to look into the matter and take the video down. Reacting to the video, in which Faisal takes revenge on […]
ByteDance is seeking a new CEO for its TikTok business
Chinese internet giant ByteDance Inc. is seeking a new chief executive officer for its TikTok business, a hugely popular video app that American politicians have targeted as a potential security threat. The company has interviewed candidates in recent months for the CEO role, which would be based in the U.S., according […]