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Elon Musk, TikTok and the social media ownership problem: What’s important is less ownership than reward mechanisms.
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Elon Musk, TikTok and the social media ownership problem
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TikTok creating 'biggest antisemitic movement since Nazis': Sacha Baron Cohen: Jewish celebrities and TikTok creators addressed TikTok executives about rising ...
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Elon Musk, TikTok and the social media ownership problem: What’s important is less ownership than reward mechanisms.
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Elon Musk, TikTok and the social media ownership problem
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Marcos Asks TikTok to Help Philippine Retailers Promote Products: Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has asked TikTok Inc. to help mom-and-pop stores ...
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Marcos Asks TikTok to Help Philippine Retailers Promote Products
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Opinion: Ban TikTok now before antisemitism peddled by Xi’s China gets worse: Social media, especially TikTok, is playing a dangerous role in the malevolent ...
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Opinion: Ban TikTok now before antisemitism peddled by Xi’s China gets ...
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Marcos gov’t taps TikTok to help small Filipino entrepreneurs: 'President Marcos noted the popularity of TikTok among its users and agreed with TikTok chief ...
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Marcos gov’t taps TikTok to help small Filipino entrepreneurs
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Marcos to partner with TikTok to help MSMEs: Palace: The Palace said TikTok Shop's gross merchandise value in 2022 reached $4.4 billion in Southeast Asia alone.
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Marcos to partner with TikTok to help MSMEs: Palace
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More TikTok users turning to the app for news: A study shows 43% of TikTok users regularly access news via the app.
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More TikTok users turning to the app for news
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TikTok emerges as a news source for 43 pct of users in 2023: Pew Research: The percentage of TikTok users who regularly access news via the app rose to 43 ...
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TikTok emerges as a news source for 43 pct of users in 2023: Pew Research
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More TikTok users turning to the app for news, Pew study shows: News organizations are competing with TikTok and other social media platforms for consumers' ...
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More TikTok users turning to the app for news, Pew study shows
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Chinese owner denies it’s willing to sell TikTok as US ban looms: TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance said Thursday that it has no plans to sell the social ...
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Chinese owner denies it’s willing to sell TikTok as US ban looms
Quick Glance: TikTok Ban Threat: ByteDance Prefers Closure Over Sale, Insiders Say
  • ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, would prefer to shut down its loss-making app rather than sell it if all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the US are exhausted, said four sources.

  • TikTok accounts for a small share of ByteDance’s total revenues and daily active users, so the parent would rather have the app shut down in the US in a worst-case scenario than sell it to a potential American buyer, they said.

  • ByteDance would not agree to sell one of its most valuable assets – its “secret source” – to rivals, said the four sources, referring to the TikTok algorithm.

  • After facing challenges regarding bans, the short-form video app has encountered partial and attempted prohibitions in the US and other nations.
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TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US: The video sharing app faces being banned in the US unless it severs ties with its China's ByteDance.
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TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US
Quick Glance: ByteDance Would Consider Closing TikTok in US Over Sale, Sources Claim
  • ByteDance would prefer to cease TikTok operations rather than engage in a sale if all legal avenues are exhausted to combat potential legislation banning the platform in US app stores, as per four sources.

  • Despite TikTok's massive popularity with over a billion users, it remains unprofitable, contributing a small fraction to ByteDance's overall revenues and daily active user base.

  • ByteDance stated on Thursday in a release on Toutiao, a media platform it possesses, that there are no intentions to sell TikTok, in response to claims from The Information about ByteDance exploring sale scenarios for TikTok's US operations excluding the recommending algorithm for user videos.

  • As of December, ByteDance's valuation stood at $268 billion when it proposed a buyback of approximately $5 billion in shares from investors.
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Commentary: Banning TikTok won’t solve social media’s foreign influence, teen harm and data privacy problems
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Commentary: Banning TikTok won’t solve social media’s foreign influence ...
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What You Need to Know About the New WhatsApp Features: WhatsApp has rolled out new features, including a "more secure way to log in."
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What You Need to Know About the New WhatsApp Features
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Threads Tests Option to Archive Posts as Platform Hits 150M+ Users: Threads is testing an option that allows users to archive old posts so that they don't ...
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Threads Tests Option to Archive Posts as Platform Hits 150M+ Users
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ICICI Bank iMobile glitch: Portal raises alert, sensitive card information visible, may be misused for international… | Mint
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Add poor media literacy to TikTok fears: The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok after the House of Representatives ...
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Add poor media literacy to TikTok fears
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Is Twitter down? X users unable to use the social media platform: Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered a widespread outage ...
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Is Twitter down? X users unable to use the social media platform