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Após diversas tentativas frustradas no mercado, a Noodle achou seu espaço e se consolidou no mundo das celebridades, antecipando recursos de publicidade de plataformas como YouTube, TikTok e Meta para influenciadores e artistas como Manu Gavassi, Bruno Gagliasso, Nicole Bahls e KondZilla. Para isso, a fintech firmou parceria com a SRM Ventures, e recebeu uma […]
TikTok’s breakneck rise from niche video-sharing app to global social media behemoth has drawn intense scrutiny, particularly over its links to China. A TikTok logo statue. File photo: Anthony Quintano, via Flickr CC2.0. In Washington, the platform has been accused of espionage. The European Union suspects it was used to sway Romania’s presidential election in […]
On December 18th, at the Force Conference hosted by the Volcano Engine, ByteDance officially launched the Doubao Vision Understanding Model and announced its price at 1,000 tokens for 0.003 yuan, 85% cheaper than the industry average, which means that for one yuan, it can process 284 images of 720P resolution. This signifies ByteDance replicating its […]
On December 18th, it was reported that “Cool River Venture HK Limited”, founded by Zhang Yiming, co-founder of ByteDance, officially obtained the Hong Kong license plate number 9. According to the announcement of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, Cool River Venture HK Limited obtained License No. 9 issued by the Hong Kong Securities […]
US lawmakers have instructed Google and Apple to prepare to remove TikTok from their app stores by January 19, 2025, if its China-headquartered parent company ByteDance hasn’t sold the platform by that date. On December 6, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) rejected TikTok’s legal challenge to a law requiring […]
Chinese consumer spending is so weak that even Starbucks is considering selling a stake in its China franchise, but one venture capital firm is bucking the trend by finding growth in niche sectors despite overall weakness. Shanghai-based company BA Capital, a long term backer of China’s “blind box” toy franchise Pop Mart and jeweller Laopu […]
Федеральный апелляционный суд оставил в силе крайний срок, до которого приложение TikTok должно быть продано под угрозой его запрета в США. Суд отклонил просьбу компании приостановить исполнение закона до тех пор, пока Верховный суд не рассмотрит ее возражения. Ожидается, что TikTok и ее китайская материнская компания ByteDance подадут апелляцию в Верховный суд США. Пока неясно, […]
A former ByteDance intern who was allegedly dismissed for professional misconduct, including sabotaging colleagues’ work, was announced as a winner of one of the most prestigious annual awards for AI research this week. Keyu Tian, whose LinkedIn and Google Scholar pages list him as a master’s student in computer science at Peking University, is the […]
A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year or face a ban. The decision is a major win for the Justice Department and opponents of the Chinese-owned app and a devastating blow to TikTok […]
Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok with domestic e-commerce operations, has been slammed for charging exorbitant promotion fees amid insufficient sales by the head of Chinese budget retailer Miniso Group, which runs multiple stores on the ByteDance-owned platform. Miniso founder and chief executive Ye Guofu, 47, levelled his criticism of Douyin via his WeChat post […]