A report from Bloomberg says that SoftBank is intervening in the issue of TikTok India, and help monetize its assets by selling it to a local wing called Glance for balanced opportunities. The assets left by TikTok in India were left useless, which could be profitable if acquired InMobi’s Glance, a local unicorn backed by … Read more
The US Department of Commerce has made an anticipated move by banning the transactions made with TikTok and WeChat in the US. This was in support of Trump’s call earlier who addressed both the apps area having security issues, that may threaten the US citizens the economy. Thus, these are effectively banned from being shared … Read more
After banning 59 Chinese apps in June, Government of India has taken yet another decision to ban more 47 apps that is more likely the clones of the 59 apps that were banned earlier. The government of India had earlier banned a slew of Chinese apps including TikTok, CamScanner, SHAREit, and UC Browser, among others. … Read more
With the Indian government banning TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps, the short-video entertainment space in India was widely left opened for new players. Though this was now actively preyed by tiny Indian startups, they have to struggle a lot to reach the heights of TikTok. But for Instagram, it’s easy. Instagram Testing TikTok’s Core … Read more
Amidst border tensions between India and China, the Indian government has just announced an official ban on several Chinese apps like TikTok, UC browser, Share It, etc. This decision was reasoned as those apps pose a security threat to the nation, thus disallowed. Surprisingly, the list doesn’t include PUBG Mobile. Indian Government Officially Bans TikTok … Read more
Google-owned YouTube, in its latest announcements of new experiments, said it will be introducing a new feature called as “Shorts” that lets content creators record a short video of up to 15 seconds. While this feature is similar to TikTok, it didn’t mention any other add-ons like stickers, AR, music, or anything. This will be … Read more