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    • 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

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    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Indonesia threatens to curb TikTok’s shopping platform

      Minister accuses Chinese-owned viral video app of ‘monopolistic’ business practices

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    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      EU tech regulation
      Big Tech faces fresh legal obligations as Brussels lists services bound by new rules

      Apple’s App Store and Google’s YouTube among 22 digital services classed as ‘gatekeepers’ as new EU law kicks in

      A montage of the logos of Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Ecommerce
      TikTok takes on Shopee and Tokopedia in Asean ecommerce race

      Buyers and sellers flock to shopping feature while authorities fret

      A clothing retailer in Hulu Langat on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur engages with buyers on TikTok Shop
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      Tech Tonic podcast21 min listen
      Peak social media: The future

      From Meta’s Threads to artificial intelligence, we ask how platforms will look and feel in years to come

    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Digital Media
      Young adults in the UK rely on social media to access news, regulator finds

      TikTok was the most-used single source for children aged 12 to 15

      A person look at their mobile phone while walking across the Waterloo Bridge in London
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Elaine Moore
      Why social media is hardly social any more

      Apps such as Zuckerberg’s Threads are a stage for brands and celebrities, not a network for friends to connect

      close up of hands holding a smartphone with the Threads app open on it
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
      Under-21s targeted by money launderers, warns UK fraud agency

      Schools initiative to discourage youngsters from being used as ‘money mules’

    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      LexEcommerce
      Ecommerce: TikTok’s high views are no match for Amazon’s logistics Premium content

      Video app wants to cash in on the boom in online shopping but faces obstacles that the US giant does not

      TikTok logo on phone
    • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
      News in-depth
      TikTok turns to south-east Asia to drive growth

      Viral app’s parent ByteDance targets large Indonesian market but faces growing regulatory scrutiny around the world

      TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew at an event in Jakarta on June 15
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      TikTok operating chief Pappas to step down after five years

      Shake-up comes as social media platform faces mounting regulatory pressure in US

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    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      TikTok prepares ‘Project S’ plan to break into online shopping

      ByteDance experiments with selling its own products through viral app as it prepares to challenge Shein and Amazon

      TikTok’s trendy beat app
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      South Korean business & finance
      New York sues Hyundai and Kia over ‘explosion’ of car thefts

      Viral TikTok videos on how to steal the vehicles led to a surge in crime, says the city’s law department

      New cars are displayed at a dealer in San Leandro, California
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      News in-depth
      TikTok reshapes ecommerce unit in bid to crack western markets

      Chinese-owned group relocates executives in renewed push of livestream shopping in US and UK

      Shopping tab on TikTok app
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      TikTok sues Montana over first US state ban

      Chinese-owned social media app says newly signed law is an unconstitutional infringement on its rights

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