Culture & Policy Global News UMG starts removing works of Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, others from TikTok as licensing talks fail Universal Music Group (UMG) has removed the music catalogues of prominent artists,… Praneetha BandaruFebruary 2, 20242 minute read
Apps Business Gaming Internet News TikTok becomes first non-game app to rake in $10Bn in cumulative user spends In Q4 2022, TikTok became the second non-gaming app to reach over… Srihari RishabhDecember 11, 20233 minute read
Business Global News TikTok to Invest $1.5 Bn in Tokopedia for an e-commerce re-launch in Indonesia Can you hear the music? Well Indonesia might soon be able to.… Srihari RishabhDecember 11, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News YouTube to watermark downloaded Shorts on desktop, mobile to follow soon If you view short videos made on TikTok, then you will observe… Soumyadeep SarkarAugust 19, 20222 minute read
Apps Internet News Instagram’s Mosseri addresses concerns around platform’s increasingly reel-focused algorithmic fed The year is 2014. You’re still sometimes in awe of the impressive… Guntas SinghJuly 27, 20223 minute read
Apps Internet News Facebook introduces new ‘feeds’ page to display posts of friends, groups exclusively The Facebook news feed is about to evolve according to the standards… Guntas SinghJuly 22, 20222 minute read
Apps Internet News TikTok’s run in the US over? FCC Commissioner writes to Google and Apple to remove it from their app stores TikTok may have taken the social media sphere by storm when it… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 29, 20223 minute read
Apps News Startups Sharechat raises $255 Mn, closes series H round at $5 Bn valuation ShareChat earlier raised $266 million as a part of this round in December last year. The company is now valued at $5 billion. Guntas SinghJune 17, 20221 minute read
Apps Internet News Instagram is testing a new full-screen feed The battle for dominance in the social media sphere continues to intensify… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 17, 20222 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy News TikTok will be rolling out LIVE subscriptions in beta this week Creators are finally getting their time in the limelight as leading social… Soumyadeep SarkarMay 24, 20222 minute read
Business News Meta adopts hiring freeze to cut costs as revenue growth slows The ones who hold positions in Meta as of now reportedly do not need to be worried, as Meta has not yet announced any plans for layoffs in the near future. Guntas SinghMay 6, 20222 minute read
Business Internet News TikTok will deliver you the food you see through a new chain of restaurants in the US, starting 2022 TikTok has made its mark as a video-focused popular social networking service,… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 18, 20212 minute read
Apps Internet News TikTok planning return to India, claims compliance with new IT rules: Report TikTok, once one of the biggest social media platforms in India, was… Upneet SinghJune 24, 20212 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy News TikTok parent ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming to step down as CEO Zhang Yiming, Chief Executive Officer at ByteDance Inc., the parent company behind… Manasi VarmaMay 20, 20212 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News TikTok India CEO Nikhil Gandhi steps down, currently serving notice period: Report Last year, escalating tensions between neighboring countries India and China had witnessed… Soumyadeep SarkarMay 13, 20212 minute read
Apps Business News TikTok outlasts Trump, forced sale to Oracle shelved indefinitely When former President Donald Trump had set his plan of the forced… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 10, 20212 minute read
Apps Internet News TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps face permanent ban in India Chinese apps have once again become the cynosure of every eye as… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 26, 20212 minute read
Apps News Facebook launches a new app called Collab to take on TikTok After starting the private beta back in May, the experimental app division… Nikhil MakwanaDecember 14, 20202 minute read
Apps Internet News Another U.S District Court Judge rules against Trump administration’s order to ban TikTok The latest development in the long-running dispute between the Trump administration and… Maaz AhmedDecember 8, 20202 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy News US Government appeals against the order that blocked the TikTok ban scheduled for November 12th TikTok was due for its last day in USA yesterday, i.e. November… Shashank RajNovember 13, 20202 minute read
Apps Business Culture & Policy News ByteDance files petition in the U.S federal appeals court seeking to vacate Trump’s ban TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has filed a petition in the U.S federal… Maaz AhmedNovember 11, 20202 minute read