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‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: teen literary influencers swaying publishers

TikTok recommendations are driving sales and launching authors’ careers as the social media app continues to reshape the industry

The Guardian - UK

Chinese plans to limit smartphone use for children hit tech shares

Proposals would cut usage for 16- to 18-year-olds to a maximum of two hours, with under-16s limited to one hour

The Guardian - UK

China proposes to limit children's smartphone time to a maximum of 2 hours a day

China’s internet watchdog has laid out regulations to curb the amount of time children spend on their smartphones, in the latest blow to firms such as Tencent and ByteDance, which run social media platforms and online games

The Independent UK

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Australian Senate committee warns TikTok and WeChat could be the country's biggest security risks

A ban on WeChat from all government devices has been recommended.

PC Gamer

TikTok ban on Australian government devices should also cover WeChat, parliamentary committee recommends

Senate committee examining foreign interference on social media says it is ‘concerned’ with ‘unique national security risks’ the companies pose

The Guardian - AU

TikTok Is Becoming a Publisher. Will It Ruin the Book Industry?

BookTok is beloved as a guerrilla democratizing force, but the platform’s pivot risks killing the thing that makes it great

The Walrus

TikTok takes on Twitter and Threads with text posts

Users can now share 1,000-character text posts to an app known for short-form video content, as battle for social media attention heats up

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TikTok for iPhone is getting passkeys

Top social media platform TikTok is implementing secure passwordless login for iPhone users.

TechRadar

Shopping the next frontier for TikTok

JAKARTA: Inside a shophouse in Northeast Jakarta, dozens of salespeople take turns peddling cosmetics, contact lenses and hair accessories. A woman helps a potential customer choose the right shade of lipstick for her skin tone, while a man yells out the latest markdown on vitamin tablets.

Bangkok Post

TikTok paying thousands to creators for longer-form content

TikTok is opening its cash coffers to creators in the hopes of attracting bigger ad spend—and upping the ante in its rivalry with YouTube

Fortune

TikTok is venturing into book publishing

After the huge popularity of the hashtag #BookTok on social media platform TikTok, its parent company ByteDance has ventured into the book publishing business, reported The New York Times.

The Times of India

TikTok owner ByteDance launches Ripple, a new app that generates music based on what you sing or hum into it

Pick a style and machine learning will do the rest

MusicRadar

Billionaires and bureaucrats mobilize China for AI race with US

China’s tech sector has a new obsession: competing with U.S. titans like Google and Microsoft Corp. in the breakneck global artificial intelligence race.

Tribune News Service

Chinese billionaires go all-in on AI

China’s tech sector has a new obsession: competing with US titans like Google and Microsoft in the breakneck global artificial intelligence "arms race".

Bangkok Post

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TikTok COO V. Pappas, a prominent nonbinary exec, resigns

V. Pappas will depart TikTok, while former Disney exec Zenia Mucha joins the Bytedance platform.

The Guardian - US

TikTok chief operating officer V Pappas steps down after five years

Key executive at Chinese-owned company says ‘I feel the time is right to move on and refocus on my entrepreneurial passions’

Fortune

MrBeast's manager says TikTok risk is increasing before 2024 elections

In a "state of the creator economy" letter, the CEO of creator talent agency Night says that YouTube should be the centerpiece platform for building a brand.

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TikTok launches shopping platform to rival Amazon and Shein in major app change

'Trendy Beat' will offer products from viral videos such as clothing and even tools to remove ear wax

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Nottingham Post

TikTok to launch shopping platform to rival Amazon and Shein in major app change

'Trendy Beat' will offer products from viral videos such as clothing and even tools to remove ear wax

Wales Online

TikTok launching shopping platform to rival Amazon and Shein in major app change

'Trendy Beat' will offer products from viral videos such as clothing and even tools to remove ear wax

Tom’s Hardware

China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year

China's ByteDance has already ordered around 100,000 Nvidia datacenter accelerators in 2023 — more than the entire Chinese market ordered last year.

Businessweek

ByteDance Wants to Build an Everything App to Rival WeChat

The company behind TikTok aims to provide food delivery, travel bookings and whatever else people want.

The Independent UK

Senators call on TikTok CEO to explain 'inaccurate' statements about how company manages US data

Two U.S. senators are asking TikTok to explain what they called “misleading or inaccurate” statements about how it stores and provides access to U.S. user data

The Guardian - UK

Chinese communist party ‘accessed Hong Kong protesters’ TikTok data’

Ruling party accessed user data including Sim card ID and IP addresses, former executive alleges in legal filing

The Independent UK

Former ByteDance executive says Chinese Communist Party tracked Hong Kong protesters via data

A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong

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