Articles tagged "TikTok"

Montana is the first US state to impose a ban on TikTok which will take effect from January 1, 2024. The SB 419 bill was signed by Montana Governor Greg Gianforte today and will require mobile app stores to remove the app form their listings for...

The social platform TikTok announced new features for teens and families, including a 60-minute daily screen limit for all users under 18 years old. It will be automatically set to every account for one hour, but users will be able to opt-out and...

EU is pressuring TikTok to comply with the newly adopted Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA is meant to improve content moderation on social media platforms, including creating transparency on why certain content was removed and how advertisers...

Samsung and TikTok have teamed up to announce StemDrop – a new format for recording and mixing music on TikTok. Simon Cowell is the creative director behind the venture and Syco Entertainment and Universal Music Group are also on board too. Stems...

TikTok has often been under the scrutiny of American lawmakers and users alike with concerns that user data was being transmitted and accessed by servers in China. With TikTok’s popularity exploding in the last few years, user data and privacy of...

On Monday, some TikTok users were greeted with a notification that they’d be able to upload videos up to 10 minutes long. In a statement to The Verge, TikTok confirms the update is taking place globally. Today, we’re excited to start rolling out...

TikTok today announced a raft of changes coming to its mobile apps, including improvements to resolution and also new effects and enhancements. One of the main new changes that will be rolling out in select countries is the option to upload in...

As reported by Reuters, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is changing its organizational structure into six business entities with CFO Shou Zi Chew stepping down as he aims to solely focus on his role as TikTok CEO starting from...

There's no denying that TikTok has managed to gather the attention of many smartphone users worldwide. Despite some political roadblocks in some countries including the US and India, TikTok announced that it now has 1 billion active monthly users...

TikTok is currently the major social media platform for sharing short 60-second videos, but from the start of Q2 2021 creators will have even more time for their videos. In an official message, Drew Kirchhoff, Product Manager at TikTok, has...

Founder of TikTok and CEO at ByteDance Zhang Yiming has announced in a memo to employees he is stepping down from his role, admitting he lacks “some of the skills that make an ideal manager.” His successor will be Liang Rubo, ByteDance co-founder...

YouTube has started rolling out its new feature Shorts - it is a platform for short videos, shot in portrait orientation, and is an obvious attempt to curb TikTok and its growing influence online. Those in the United States have started receiving...

When Instagram launched Reels back in August, everyone saw it as a direct response to TikTok - clearly the fastest growing social network at this moment. Both platforms provide a similar service, and content creators took it as a...

TikTok and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced an extension of their partnership which will deepen the already active collaboration between the two allowing TikTok users to use songs from all UMG labels and artists in their videos. Users on TikTok...

Fact-checking content has become a leading focus for most social media companies and TikTok is now rolling out a new prompt system that will warn you when you are about to share “unsubstantiated content” with your friends. These prompts will appear...

The Indian government went through with its ban on TikTok and made it permanent, and today ByteDance returned issued its response. The platform owner has announced in an internal memo, acquired by Reuters, that it will cut the size of its 2,000+...

The Indian government banned over 250 mobile apps in the span of several months, citing issues with data collection and user privacy. Some of them include the popular TikTok, WeChat, Baidu, Alibaba’s main browser UC Browser, several Xiaomi-related...

TikTok has brought a new set of privacy settings to its users under the age of 18. All accounts will be switched to Private, instead of Public, while videos of users between 13 and 15 cannot be downloaded and used for Duet or Stitch...

The Commerce Department of the United States issued an executive order to Apple and Google to ban WeChat and TikTok from their app stores, but now US District Judge Carl Nichols blocked the decision. The judge said the government ”must file a...

TikTok, the leading social platform with over 100 million users in the United States, will not be sold to Microsoft or Oracle, latest reports claim. According to CGTN, an English TV station owned by the Chinese state, ByteDance will not sell its...