TikTok
TikTok is still unavailable in app stores in the US. The company is offering an Android package kit to download the app.TikTok Lite lets users watch content, follow creators, and interact with their content.TikTok created a way for users to download the app on Android even though it is still…
Shadi Nayyer has joined Meta in a new role focused on metaverse creator and developer relationships.Nayyer’s role overseeing ecosystem growth rolls up into the Reality Labs content organization.Prior to joining Meta, Nayyer led global creator programs at TikTok.Meta has tapped former TikTok exec Shadi Nayyer to oversee a new team…
President Trump has proposed that the US government get a stake in TikTok as part of a sale.But can the government actually own a piece of TikTok?Legal analysts said it could spark free-speech issues that would make the app hard to run.TikTok needs to find a new owner for its…
There’s an astonishing amount of news coming out of the tech world right now.This week, it’s DeepSeek. But before that, it was the TikTok ban-then-maybe-sale, huge infrastructure deals, and, of course- Donald Trump.I wanted to get an insider view on the hopes and fears in Silicon Valley, so I talked…
Meta is offering creators thousands to post exclusive short-form videos on Instagram reels.The deals require creators to post a certain number of reels to Instagram each month.Read the exact terms of contracts Instagram sent creators.Instagram wants to be the first place creators go to post short-form videos.And it’s attempting to…
Investing.com — The debate over whether TikTok will be banned in the United States has reached a critical juncture, with developments raising the stakes for the popular short-video platform. The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld a law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or face a…
By Krystal Hu DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – U.S. businessman Frank McCourt is open to teaming up with other buyers on a bid to take over the U.S. operations of TikTok as long as he can maintain control of the asset, he told Reuters at the Davos event on Thursday. The…
The Chinese equivalent of TikTok is less harmful to young users than TikTok, Jonathan Haidt said.The author of “The Anxious Generation” spoke to Business Insider at the World Economic Forum in Davos.He compared letting TikTok operate in the US to letting the Soviet Union own US media during the Cold…
By Doyinsola Oladipo (Reuters) -Three days after ByteDance’s TikTok went dark and then was quickly revived in the United States, users who deleted the app were anxiously checking iPhone and Android devices to find it still unavailable to be downloaded again. Some looking to make a quick profit from TikTok…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order to restore access to TikTok has created a thicket of new legal questions for the short-video platform, along with new tensions between the White House, members of Congress who want the platform banned, and tech companies caught in the…
