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  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Biggest tech companies pledge to fight AI-created election ‘deepfakes’

    Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI agree at Munich Security Conference to stifle content designed to mislead voters

    A with seats before the start of the 2024 Munich Security Conference on February 15 2024
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Ex-TikTok executive claims she was fired for lacking ‘docility and meekness’

    Lawsuit from former global marketing head criticises corporate culture at popular app owned by China’s ByteDance

    TikTok logo
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    LexPersonal & Household Goods
    Viral TikTok fashion trends pose new threat to fast fashion’s leaders Premium content

    The retailers quickest at bringing popular designs to market are grabbing more market share

    A customer walking past a display of Round Mini Shoulder bags in a Uniqlo store in Tokyo, Japan last month
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Universal Music set to pull songs from TikTok after negotiations break down

    Music group accuses social media platform of ‘bullying’ and vows to let contract expire on January 31

    Taylor Swift performing on stage
  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    Isabel Berwick
    Year in a word: The Roman empire

    The TikTok trend swept through living rooms this year, splitting households down gender lines

    The emperor Augustus and the Roman aqueduct in Segovia, Spain
  • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
    Gillian Tett
    US policymakers are turning up the heat on TikTok

    Increasingly, they view the platform as a Chinese tool to manipulate American minds

    An American eagle stands on a reflective TikTok logo and views its mirror image
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    Chinese business & finance
    Alibaba chief takes direct control of Chinese ecommerce business

    New group CEO Eddie Wu is now chief executive of cloud and online retail divisions in latest restructuring

  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    UK regulator probes TikTok over parental controls information

    Ofcom’s investigation comes amid intensified efforts to protect children from harmful online material

    A montage of TikTok’s logo and a child looking at a smartphone screen
  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    #techAsia
    The new chip race and iPads in Vietnam Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    LexTechnology sector
    TikTok/GoTo: bargain buy rewrites script for scrolling players Premium content

    Integrating social media and ecommerce could be transformative for Chinese-owned app

    A Gojek driver, a motorbike courier delivery and hailing services
  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    TikTok to take over Indonesia’s Tokopedia in bid to overcome ecommerce rules

    ByteDance’s social media company to invest $1.5bn for controlling stake in GoTo unit

    Tokopedia logo
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    ByteDance
    TikTok owner ByteDance to buy back shares after amassing $50bn cash pile

    Ecommerce growth drives revenues to record level and pushes quarterly earnings before interest and tax to $9bn

    TikTok app on an iPhone
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    TikTok nears deal with Indonesia’s GoTo to restart ecommerce business

    Chinese video app hopes investment in Jakarta-listed unit will revive its fortunes after ban in its biggest market

    Gojek riders wait for their delivery orders at a distribution centre in Surabaya
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    US judge blocks first-ever state ban on TikTok

    Decision finds lawmakers over-reached with statewide prohibition on downloads

    The TikTok logo on a mobile phone with a computer keyboard in the background
  • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
    EU tech regulation
    TikTok and Meta challenge EU’s landmark digital rules

    Companies argue that their services should not come under the purview of new law designed to improve competition

    Facebook and Messenger app logos on a smartphone
  • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
    Jemima Kelly
    In defence of the Gen Z challenge to the ‘work ethic’

    Contempt for younger workers protesting at the daily grind masks the fact that so few are happy with it

    Ben Hickey illustration of someone on a skate board inside a hamster wheel.
  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    TikTok shops around for options in wake of Indonesia app ban

    Chinese group sets up teams to explore way forward after biggest ecommerce market imposes curbs

    TikTok sales channel
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Israel conflict lets loose a deluge of falsehoods on social media

    Platforms are again under scrutiny for failing to curb misinformation

    A montage of logos of Tiktok, Telegram and Meta
  • Friday, 6 October, 2023
    LexEcommerce
    Ecommerce: China’s retail future lies in live video streaming Premium content

    Traditional ecommerce is struggling to hold on to its shoppers

    An ecommerce anchor sells clothes through a live-streaming platform at a clothing store in Qingdao, Shandong province, China
  • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
    ExplainerSocial Media3 min
    The data security concerns around TikTok | FT Tech

    It’s got a billion active users and it’s the number one search engine in the world - yet its fate hangs in the balance

    FT Tech Time running out for TikTok
  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    HTSI
    Jon Kung, the self-taught chef who went viral

    In Detroit, one cook is shaking things up with genre-breaking Chinese fusion food

    Jon Kung makes pork and chive dumplings
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    Indonesian ban on social media transactions deals TikTok major blow

    Video app can no longer facilitate ecommerce sales on its platform in what had been its largest market

    Zulkifli Hasan, Indonesia’s minister of trade, said the rules, which apply to all social networks, were to ensure fair competition
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Jo Ellison
    What is it about men and the Roman empire?

    A TikTok trend has exposed a crucial difference between the boys and the girls 

    Men dressed in the costumes of ancient Roman gladiators, but checking their smartphones
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    LexJune Yoon
    The Lex Newsletter: TikTok wants to be Amazon for Gen Z Premium content

    Social media group is branching out into ecommerce but the US is not the only country with concerns about the app

    Logo for TikTok and a smartphone screen showing the TikTok Shop app
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    EU fines TikTok €345mn for breaching children’s data rules

    Probe finds Chinese social media app infringed regulations for users aged under 17

    TikTok sign in front of an office window
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