TikTok denied evidence linking the incident to its platform. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama announced plans to ban TikTok for a year, citing the platform’s role in inciting violence and bullying among children, the app’s largest user base in the country. The decision comes after the fatal stabbing of a teenager by…
China’s booming artificial intelligence (AI) industry has a plethora of job openings but not enough talent to fill them, according to a recent report from Maimai, a Chinese professional online network similar to LinkedIn. A quarter of openings among the top 20 “new economy” job types on Maimai this year through October were directly related…
US billionaire businessman Frank McCourt is crafting a fundamental overhaul of TikTok’s business model as part of a plan to bid for the Chinese-owned short-form video app, he told Reuters. McCourt, who formerly owned the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, said he has received verbal funding commitments totaling $20 billion from a consortium of investors to…
This is a published version of the Forbes Daily newsletter, you can sign-up to get Forbes Daily in your inbox here. Good morning, When Forbes first ranked the Wealthiest Black Americans in 2009, only one was a billionaire: Oprah Winfrey, then worth an estimated $2.7 billion. But net worth isn’t the only way to measure…
The US Supreme Court has set a January 10 hearing for a ByteDance legal challenge to a law requiring the company to sell TikTok or see the app banned in the United States Kiran RIDLEY Text size As the US Supreme Court considers whether to uphold a law that could get TikTok banned in the…
As the US Supreme Court considers whether to uphold a law that could get TikTok banned in the United States, here is a look at the rise of the video-snippet social app. – Genesis – In 2016, Beijing-based ByteDance launched Douyin, a short video sharing app, making it available only in China. ByteDance released TikTok…
Temu was the most downloaded free app in Apple’s App Store in 2024, Apple said Monday (Dec. 16). The app earned that ranking across iPhone and iPad, Apple said in a Monday press release. In 2023, when Apple broke down its rankings by device, Temu was ranked first among free iPhone apps and ninth among…
There are nearly two million apps on App Store. Now, Apple has revealed the most downloaded ones in the UK this year – and it seems iPhone users are shunning TikTok in favour of bargain shopping apps. Among the year’s success stories are fast fashion apps from China including Temu and Shein, along with the trendy ‘preloved marketplace’…
TikTok may finally be meeting its end in a month if a warning from US lawmakers is anything to go by. TikTok is one of the biggest apps in the entire world and has managed to change the way a lot of people consume content in less than a decade. While Vine was really the…
Following negotiations, Chinese authorities conditionally approved the merger in 2020, with Nvidia making certain commitments to Beijing, including refraining from any form of bundled sales in the Chinese market as well as to treat Chinese customers fairly, reasonably, without discrimination, and so forth. Source link