Sandie Hawkins led e-commerce at TikTok before joining Teikametrics. She said social commerce and AI have changed online ...

The Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has rattled markets with claims that its latest AI model, R1, performs on a ...

Founded just 20 months ago in Alibaba’s home city of Hangzhou, DeepSeek has upended the industry with its low-cost, ...

Mergers and acquisitions have been the theme so far this year. Harry has been covering some of the mergers this month in streaming, most notably the Disney and Fubo merger. Now, T-Mobile has entered ...

In recent days, Instagram has launched Edits, a free video editing app to compete with CapCut (ByteDance’s tool, the parent company of TikTok). It also introduced a feature that lets you discover ...

TikTok is considering alternative solutions to selling its US business, as owner ByteDance continues the fight to keep its 170 million American users after a reprieve from the Trump administration ...

Perhaps the most appealing option for ByteDance could be if Trump blessed a merger between TikTok and Perplexity AI—a San Francisco-based AI search company worth about $9 billion that appears to ...

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok and Douyin, will end the Lunar New Year tradition of giving red packets to employees from 2026, but will expand medical insurance for staff, according to an ...

Under the proposed deal, ByteDance, TikTok's China-based owner, would retain a minority stake in the company, while Oracle would oversee the app's algorithm, data collection, and software updates.

TL;DR: The Trump administration is working on a plan involving Oracle and US investors to control TikTok's global operations, with ByteDance retaining a minority stake. Oracle will oversee TikTok ...

Perplexity is reportedly proposing the creation of a new US holding company called "NewCo". ByteDance would reportedly sell TikTok US to the investors, giving the company's existing investors an ...