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TikTok

TikTok gets a $50 Bn valuation tag from ByteDance investors amid takeover bid: Report

In continuation of Bytedance’s efforts to distance TikTok from its Chinese roots,…

Facebook postpones second quarter results as Zuckerberg prepares to appear before Congress

The Wednesday of July 29th will become a historical date, for the…
Google

Google will allow employees to work from home till July 2021

Google has extended work from home till July 2021, allowing its over…
TikTok

Tiktok announces a $200Mn ‘Creator Fund’ for U.S. creators

In a bid to not lose its current biggest market (after the…

Facebook forms new ‘equity and inclusion team’ to study racial bias within FB, Instagram’s platform algorithms

The conversation around Facebook and potential racial bias, backed by political motives,…

Spotify introduces video podcasts to select creators, with a global rollout planned soon

Spotify today announced in a blog post that it is rolling out…

Mark Zuckerberg finds US Government’s response to the threat of COVID-19 “disappointing”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a lot on his hands in the…
Microsoft

Microsoft is reducing workforce after closing retail stores

As the unspoken king of the PC business-Microsoft enters a new fiscal…
Apple

Apple will spend $400 million on affordable housing in California

Apple has allocated more than $400 million on affordable housing programs and…
India

India could establish new data regulatory body to curb US dominance in country’s digital space: Report

India has been tinkering with its data policies from some while now,…

India’s Supreme Court allows delivery of official court summons via WhatsApp and E-mail

Accepting a long pending demand from the country’s legal fraternity, India’s Supreme…

Amazon bans and then un-bans TikTok from employees’ mobile phones

In what was the most bizzare day for the TikTok-Amazon relationship (if…

TikTok parent Bytedance plans new corporate structure & overseas headquarters, publishes transparency report

In a bid to firefight everything that is currently going wrong with…
Facebook

Facebook pushes “Oversight Board” launch to late fall, amid disappointing meeting with Facebook ad ban leaders

In a rather unsurprising turn of events, Facebook’s “efforts” to stop the…
TikTok

United States “looking at” banning TikTok and the likes, says secy of state Mike Pompeo

Donald Trump’s equally vocal counterpart, the U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,…

Facebook, Google, Twitter among others will temporarily not comply with Hong Kong data requests

In a rare show of solidarity, some of the biggest social media…
Facebook

Facebook gets into education, launches a new certified curriculum in Indian schools through CBSE

Facebook has launched “Facebook for Education” initiative in India, the world’s second…

PlayStation joins the #StopHateForProfit campaign against Facebook, suspends all paid/non-paid activity on the platform

Joining an ever growing list of large tech companies pulling out of…

Google postpones opening of U.S. office as COVID-19 infections continue to rise

Google has announced that it will be postponing reopening of its U.S.…
Facebook

Facebook agrees to review its hate speech controls after a prolific advertising boycott

Facebook has managed to piss off just about every single one of…

Donald Trump gets temporarily banned on Twitch just as Reddit bans the r/The_Donald subreddit

It is pretty much a fact now, that Donald Trump and social…