Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app, according to a person familiar with the discussions. If Microsoft buys TikTok, it will give the lumbering tech giant ownership of one of the coolest social media platforms, favored by the youngest digital users coveted by all of […]
Month: July 2020
Blog: This Taylor Swift “Love Story” Remix Has Become A Viral Sensation On TikTok – BuzzFeed
“I produced the entire song while recording the video in only an hour. After editing, I uploaded it to my YouTube and SoundCloud and thought nothing of it,” he said. Source: tiktok
Blog: The Most Soothing Man on TikTok – The New York Times
Critic’s Notebook By slowing down and soaking it all in, Larry Scott makes the whole TikTok experience … nice. Larry Scott’s TikTok videos are maybe the most calming thing on the internet and, on some days, maybe the only calming thing on the internet.Credit…no credit By Jon Caramanica Some of […]
Blog: Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok – NYT – Yahoo Finance
July 31 (Reuters) – Microsof Corp is in talks to buy ByteDance-owned TikTok, New York Times reported on Friday, citing a source. (Reporting by Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D’Silva) Source: tiktok
Blog: What Do You Hear? This Viral TikTok of an Another Audio Illusion Is Dividing the Internet – Our Community Now at Colorado
Courtesy of @emilysophie.m on TikTok What kind of sorcery is this??? The brainstorm vs. green needle debate is apparently several years old, but TikTokker @emilysophie.m has revived the audio illusion in a recent TikTok video. And it’s seriously mind-bending. Supposedly, depending on which word you’re reading or focusing one, that’s […]
Blog: President Trump plans to sever TikTok from its Chinese owner, Bloomberg reports – The Verge
President Donald Trump intends to sign an order that would direct Bytedance to sell its ownership of the US-based video-sharing app TikTok, according to Bloomberg. The order, which could be announced as soon as Friday afternoon, would employ the Council on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to force […]
Blog: Cameron Diaz Just Dropped The Best #WineChallenge In Her First Ever TikTok Video – Women’s Health
Cameron Diaz made her first TikTok video, and it’s a funny #winechallenge. She and business partner Katherine Power created a “range of clean wines” called Avaline. In the video, they pass a wine glass back and forth before drinking out of it—all with no hands. Cameron Diaz is notoriously private […]
Blog: TikTok star Charli D’Amelio, 16, hires security after threat – Daily Mail
TikTok star Charli D’Amelio has reportedly hired full-time security after receiving threats on social media. TMZ reports that the 16-year-old, who is the most-followed star on TikTok , with 75.1 million followers, was threatened on social media by a user who said they were going to turn up at her family’s house […]
Blog: TikTok Owner Eyes Listing Change To Dodge US Sanctions – pymnts.com
With the Trump administration increasingly signaling that it may ban Chinese technology power-house ByteDance’s blockbuster app TikTok in the United States over concerns of Beijing spying through the program, the business is considering registering as a publicly traded company on exchanges in Shanghai or Hong Kong, Reuters reported on Friday […]
Blog: Tipping the scales with TikTok in Nashville – WKRN News 2
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WRKN) — Like so many other Americans during quarantine, Lexy Burke created a TikTok account on social media. It’s an app that allows you to watch videos with different kinds of original content. Burke is a photographer who was out of work during the pandemic. She found herself […]