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Feb 27, 2021 10:48 PM IST The blankets are “literal lifesavers,” said Subhi Taha, who calls himself “just an average Muslim American” on his YouTube channel, where he has about 250,000 followers.
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Feb 26, 2021 07:46 AM IST ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the short video app TikTok that has more than 100 million U.S. users, agreed to the settlement after more than a year of litigation.
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Feb 17, 2021 08:40 AM IST The newspaper had earlier reported ByteDance was in preliminary discussions to list TikTok on the NYSE
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Feb 16, 2021 07:37 PM IST Here are some Indian made alternatives to popular social media platforms
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Feb 16, 2021 04:05 PM IST Owned by China's ByteDance, TikTok has been rapidly growing in popularity around the world, particularly among teenagers. It faces growing criticism about its privacy and safety policies following a number of incidents.
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Feb 13, 2021 03:25 PM IST Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp has initiated the discussions between the two firms. However, the talks are private.
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Feb 12, 2021 10:35 PM IST More than a month after her mishap, Brown has had the glue removed from her hair, thanks to a Los Angeles plastic surgeon who spent hours Wednesday using a homemade solvent to get the job done.
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Feb 10, 2021 07:32 PM IST TikTok has been in talks with Walmart and Oracle since September to finalize a deal that would shift TikTok's US assets into a new entity to prevent its total ban on use in the country.
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Feb 10, 2021 01:41 PM IST Instagram has updated its best practices for creators, says it will no longer promote watermarked content
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Feb 05, 2021 12:57 PM IST Instagram, Twitter and TikTok are banning accounts with links to OGUsers, a group that peddles rare usernames online
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Feb 04, 2021 11:21 AM IST Instagram is building a Vertical Stories view similar to TikTok
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Feb 03, 2021 10:26 AM IST The under-eye dark circles trend’s popularity has led to models and makeup artists also recreating the effect.
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Jan 27, 2021 01:00 PM IST The move came after India decided to retain its ban on TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps following responses from the companies on issues such as compliance and privacy.
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Jan 27, 2021 12:58 PM IST It is not clear how many employees have been let go.
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Jan 25, 2021 04:26 PM IST Kuaishou's valuation may double after its Hong Kong IPO and reach at $60.9 billion, up from the $28.6 billion it achieved in a funding round last year.
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Jan 23, 2021 08:24 PM IST The government had blocked 59 Chinese apps in June and 118 more apps, including PUBG mobile game, in September.
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Jan 20, 2021 12:27 PM IST TikTok despite the ban saw more monthly active users on the platform than the social networking platform Instagram.
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Dec 29, 2020 05:52 PM IST The mobile spending on Christmas which comprises 4.5 percent of the month’s total spending, reached approximately $9 billion globally from December 1 to December 27.
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Dec 29, 2020 04:02 PM IST We streamed, we Zoomed, we ordered groceries and houseplants online, we created virtual villages while navigating laptop shortages to work and learn from home. In many ways, 2020′s pandemic-induced isolation threw our dependence on technology into overdrive, snipping away at our real-life connections while bringing digital relationships to the fore. But for every life-changing Zoom, there was at least one soon-forgotten Quibi. Here's a look at the year's tech winners and losers.
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Dec 15, 2020 06:48 PM IST News about the TikTok-like app developed by Facebook first appeared in May, when the app was made available on an invite-only basis. However now, users in the US can download Collab.
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Dec 14, 2020 02:20 PM IST The ban would have required Apple Inc and Alphabet's Google to remove the app from their stores, preventing new users from downloading it or existing users downloading updated versions. It would not have stopped existing users from accessing the app on their devices.
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Dec 12, 2020 04:23 PM IST Here are the biggest developments in the world of tech from the week ending December 12.
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Dec 05, 2020 06:23 PM IST The White House claims TikTok is a national security risk because of potential links to the Chinese government through ByteDance.
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Dec 05, 2020 07:47 AM IST An intimate conversation with the 17-year-old village girl Mili Sarkar whose Instagram video doing gymnastics in a sari is going viral.
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Dec 04, 2020 08:18 PM IST Salma el-Shimy and her photographer have been accused by a lawyer of disrespecting Egypt’s cultural heritage by posing in a phaoronic-style outfit