Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he is worried that China-style regulation of Internet platforms could be replicated in other countries, as leaders across the world consider greater online laws.
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The Covid-19 pandemic likely barely dented Tencent Holdings’ growth. The bigger long-term threat may be the growing posse of challengers to its Internet leadership.
ByteDance just kicked off a wave of hiring it envisions hitting 40 000 new jobs in 2020, at a time technology corporations across the globe are furloughing or reducing staff.
Having our normal daily lives upended by the coronavirus has heightened the demand for entertainment – and not just Netflix. “The virus is forcing us to use the Internet as it was always meant to be used.”
The maker of TikTok is preparing to roll out a Google-like suite of office collaboration tools as soon as this month, according to people familiar with the plans, as it works to expand beyond short video sharing.
MTN South Africa has launched data bundles aimed specifically at users of the fast-growing social media platform TikTok, which is developed by the Chinese company ByteDance.
Naspers affiliate Tencent is planning a major update to its ubiquitous WeChat messaging app to stave off up-and-comer ByteDance and counter the start-up’s growing dominance of short-form video.
ByteDance is preparing a major push into the mobile arena’s most lucrative market, a realm Tencent Holdings has dominated for over a decade: games.
A television that can rotate into portrait orientation to properly display videos from social media has been shown off at CES in Las Vegas by Samsung Electronics.
China’s ByteDance created one of the country’s rare global hits with the addictive video app TikTok. Now the US government is threatening that success as officials in Washington warn the service presents a security threat.