ByteDance plans to globally emerge into the e-commerce industry by leveraging TikTok, to launch an international shopping platform, attracting merchants and consumers taking on Amazon. The Beijing-based company proved itself as a force to be reckoned with as it expands its influence over a diversified multitude of platforms, and its latest tactic to overtake Amazon’s […]
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It’s been a long time since a technology breakthrough generated as much anticipation and fanfare as 5G. Buzz around it has been building for some time and with good reason: 5G will fuel an economic and social revolution that disrupts how companies operate while opening-up incredible new opportunities for those who have the talent to […]
Google’s plans of extending its horizon into financial services in collaboration with the banking sector have reached an end as the search engine kills off its Plex service before the initial launch, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Mountain View company stunned its users with news of halting the development of its banking service as […]
Tinder is releasing an in-app currency, allowing users to obtain coins by maintaining an active profile or through spending your actual money on the platform. The famous dating-app that’s used worldwide has the potential to incorporate a myriad of features. However, an in-app currency was surely not expected. Bloomberg first reported on the news on Monday, noting […]
Facebook systems’ sudden emergence to darkness on Monday sends the social media mogul stoke to plummet by almost 5 percent, bleeding Mark Zuckerberg net worth by more than $6 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index. During the same time its global head of safety Antigone Davis went live on CNBC to clear the company’s image over the […]
As the whole world went semi-offline last night due to a six-hour outage on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, the main question on everyone’s mind was “what’s happening to our social media platforms?” Well, Facebook cleared the air in a blog post right after the outage was fixed. Apparently, the answer to the popular question isn’t as gripping as most of […]
There are at least 15,000 titles on Netflix, which is why choosing what to watch can be a daunting task. However, the popular streaming site is officially making it easier, as the Play Something feature has been released for Android users. While Netflix began testing the feature in April, the streaming giant has just launched the new tool globally […]
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours. Facebook said late Monday that “the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change” and that there is “no evidence that user […]
The ruling Communist Party is tightening political control over China’s internet giants and tapping their wealth to pay for its ambitions to reduce reliance on U.S. and European technology. Anti-monopoly and data security crackdowns starting in late 2020 have shaken the industry, which flourished for two decades with little regulation. Investor jitters have knocked more […]
Famous cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase underwent a cyber threat, breaching 6,000 accounts by detouring around the platform’s security feature. Coinbase informed thousands of its users that the company detected a “third-party campaign to gain unauthorized access to the accounts of Coinbase customers and move customer funds off the Coinbase platform.” On Friday, Bleeping Computer sparked attention that […]