At an e-commerce school, Chinese students practice selling clothes to overseas TikTok users. To understand their target audience, they record themselves on camera wearing hijabs and abaya gowns over casual clothing. It’s the final day of a two-week course on selling products abroad via the short video app TikTok. Despite being blocked in China, this … Read more
On Saturday, Congress advanced efforts to ban the widely-used video-sharing platform TikTok. The House made a second attempt to pass legislation aimed at tackling what lawmakers argue poses a national security risk. In a decisive 360-58 vote, the House of Representatives approved a bill containing a provision that would compel ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, … Read more
Without a degree in business, Amelia Hitchcock-Merritt built jewellery brand Bijoux De Mimi from her bedroom during the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. At just 18 years old, after being inspired by a trip to Paris in 2020, Hitchcock-Merritt told Hello!: “I launched Bijoux when I was 18, with £400 of my own savings from … Read more
TikTok executives were reportedly convinced that the US had abandoned its plan to ban the Chinese-owned app after President Joe Biden joined, only to find out that wasn’t the case. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, the Biden campaign’s decision to join the app in late February and post several videos provided … Read more
Streaming and video platform Rumble has offered to buy TikTok in response to a potential nationwide ban on the Chinese-owned app. Lawmakers in the United States are pushing for a nationwide ban on TikTok, which they believe is the most effective way to restrict the app. The US government has security concerns about TikTok, fearing … Read more
This week, TikTok announced that it would be cutting back its spending on the TikTok Shop service. TikTok informed its TikTok Shop sellers in the US, that the company will be increasing its commission by more than five per cent and raising its charges for each transaction. The higher commission rates and consumer charges come … Read more
Much to the chagrin of some users, TikTok has started promoting longer videos. TikTok began to garner popularity among users in 2020 as a short-form video-sharing platform at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Hoping to mimic TikTok’s skyrocketing popularity, leading social media platforms like YouTube, Instagram and Facebook launched similar products. These TikTok rivals … Read more
