Good morning, President Donald Trump’s sweeping changes to the federal workforce could mean taxpayers will have to wait longer for their refunds this year. Trump signed two executive orders this week that instituted a return-to-office mandate for federal employees, and a hiring freeze for most of the government. That could have immediate consequences for the…
India says Apple has abused its dominant market share of iOS apps The Indian government wants its own state-backed apps to be pre-installed on every iPhone and Android phone, but Apple and Google are expected to refuse. India’s government has a thing about pre-installed apps, having previously told Apple it should let its experts examine…
Secondhand phones with TikTok installed are being listed on eBay for thousands of dollars. And it appears that some people might actually be buying them. Despite US president Donald Trump signing an executive order on Monday delaying any potential ban of the social media app for 75 days, TikTok remains absent from all US app…
Samsung announced the release of its next flagship phone, the Galaxy S25, on Jan. 22 at the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked S25 presentation. As is essential for any tech presentation in 2025, generative AI was at the forefront of the event. “We are making it [AI] a reality right here right now,” said ™ Roh, Samsung’s…
TikTok parent ByteDance has launched an updated version of Doubao, China’s most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app, as the tech giant accelerates AI development despite US export restrictions on advanced chips. The Beijing-based company introduced its closed-source multimodal model Doubao 1.5 Pro on Wednesday, emphasising a “resource-efficient” training approach that it said does not…
Topline President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday temporarily pausing the federal ban on TikTok, after access to the app was restored before he even took office, but while companies like Oracle have willingly put the app back online, Apple and Google’s app stores still haven’t restored TikTok and other ByteDance-owned apps yet—and they…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, who bought Twitter in October 2022 said ‘something needs to change’ even though he doesn’t support the ban on TikTok. Musk while arguing that the ban goes against ‘freedom of speech’ also highlighted the disparity between the geographies in which TikTok and X functions. In a post on X, Musk…
For the first time in internet history, the United States government has officially banned a major global social media platform, joining the ranks of authoritarian regimes like Russia and China. On Saturday, TikTok officially went dark. Users who attempt to access the app are now greeted with a message that says “TikTok isn’t available right…
Pixalate Pixalate research finds 2.6 million apps were delisted from the Google Play Store (2.1 million) and Apple App Store (500k) in 2024 London, Jan. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pixalate, a leading global platform for ad fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics, today released the December 2024 Delisted Mobile Apps Report – Apple App…
Photo illustration of the TikTok logo displayed on a smartphone with the American flag in the background.Illustration: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto (Getty Images) In This Story TikTok is likely seeing its final days in the U.S. after the Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law banning the social media app starting on Sunday if its Chinese parent…