What happened when India pulled the plug on TikTokIndia's ban on TikTok in 2020, along with other Chinese apps, abruptly altered the social media landscape, impacting millions of users and ...
22 Mar, 2024, 10.14 AM IST
Tick Tock Day 2022: Date, significance and key detailsTick Tock Day, celebrated on December 29, is a reminder to finish any remaining work and personal goals before the end of the year. Conside...
29 Dec, 2022, 06.42 PM IST
ByteDance’s AI policies likely to face scrutiny on re-entryByteDance Group is in talks with Mumbai-based realty major Hiranandani Group to make a comeback in India in an attempt to re-enter one of t...
28 Jul, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
After TikTok, who’ll be the next ‘Lamberghini’ of music promos?The ban on TikTok has made song promotion expensive for many music labels as the app was able to yield a tenfold impact on views for half t...
25 May, 2021, 01.46 PM IST
Trucking hellFrom E-commerce firms facing new logistic challenges to Ethereum co-founder's big Covid donation and Elon Musk's Bitcoin U-turn to court, h...
13 May, 2021, 08.15 PM IST
Four Indian creators among top 15 highest paid TikTokers of 2020The four Indian creators had risen to fame on ByteDance's short-video sharing platform in the country over the last couple of years, garner...
23 Oct, 2020, 08.38 AM IST
Trump says will ban TikTok in US amidst reports of Microsoft in talks to buy Chinese-owned appU.S. lawmakers have raised intelligence and privacy concerns about the company's ownership. The company has denied allegations that it shar...
01 Aug, 2020, 11.53 AM IST
Decision on TikTok within weeks, not months: White HouseIndia last month banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok and UC Browser, saying they were prejudicial to the sovereignty, integrity and se...
16 Jul, 2020, 12.27 PM IST
Short-video apps vying to replace TikTok find a tough road aheadBuilding the next TikTok will require top-notch engineering capability and a recommendation and personalization engine backed by millions o...
02 Jul, 2020, 08.54 PM IST
India continuing to show it won't back down from China's aggression: Nikki Haley on app banA couple of days after New Delhi banned apps with Chinese links, Republican leader and Indian American Nikki Haley said that India was cont...
02 Jul, 2020, 08.21 AM IST
Homegrown TikTok rival Chingari on fire“We were experiencing 50,000 downloads per hour earlier, and suddenly, after the news (of TikTok ban) broke, the number jumped to 100,000 d...
01 Jul, 2020, 11.59 AM IST
Creator economy built by TikTok, Likee to collapse, Indian video apps get ready to attract themBuilt and nurtured chiefly by the now-banned TikTok, Likee and Bigo Live, an estimated 15-20 million of the 200 million short-video app use...
01 Jul, 2020, 12.05 AM IST
From David Warner to Jean Myburgh, lockdown got foreign celebs dancing to Indian tunes on TikTok to grow fanbaseIndia is the biggest international market for the Chinese short-video-sharing platform.
15 Jun, 2020, 08.27 AM IST
Indians willing to act quirky to go viral on TikTokTikTok’s content strategy thrives on hashtag challenges that drive user engagement.
14 Jun, 2019, 08.50 AM IST
Decoding TikTok's appeal: Fun, fad or a new 'friend'?TikTok overtook Facebook as the most downloaded social networking app globally in Q1, 2019.
25 May, 2019, 06.07 PM IST
TikTok’s relentless growth in India is hitting FacebookByteDance, the world’s most valuable startup, is banking on its global product approach and user-generated content to win over the Indian m...
21 May, 2019, 12.29 PM IST
View: Anti-social media in Elections 2019Over the next five weeks, outside the hot and dusty campaign rallies, much of the war will be fought on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok...
10 Apr, 2019, 11.06 PM IST