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Big Tech Earnings and TikTok Ban Bill Coming Next Week

By Martin Peers · Apr 19, 2024 2:35pm PDT
Get ready. The tech news cycle is about to go into overdrive. Next week we’ve got March-quarter earnings from Google, Microsoft and Meta Platforms. The first two will be closely watched for what we can glean about how artificial intelligence–powered services are lifting revenues, while Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is sure to wax eloquent about his... Get ready. The tech news cycle is about to go into overdrive. Next week we’ve got March-quarter...
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Busting Myths on Foreign Media Ownership as TikTok Ban Looms

By Martin Peers · Mar 13, 2024 5:00pm PDT · 2 comments
It’s taken four years, but the push to ban TikTok is moving at lightning speed—which will continue until it comes to a dead halt sometime in the near future. Today’s lopsided vote in the House of Representatives on the ban-or-sell TikTok bill moves the battle to the Senate, where its prospects are uncertain. Let’s assume it passes in that... It’s taken four years, but the push to ban TikTok is moving at lightning speed—which will...
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How Instagram Reels Could Benefit From a TikTok Ban

By Sylvia Varnham O'Regan · Mar 13, 2024 3:00pm PDT
Is TikTok’s pain Instagram’s gain? In the past, employees at the Meta Platforms app certainly thought so. Instagram’s short-video feature, Reels, has come a long way since its bumpy start in 2020. But it’s hard to imagine any Instagram exec isn’t intrigued by the reprise of Washington’s efforts to ban the ByteDance-owned app. After all,... Is TikTok’s pain Instagram’s gain? In the past, employees at the Meta Platforms app certainly...
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TikTok Ban Bill Spotlights Open Secret: App Loses Money
By Jing Yang, Kate Clark and Erin Woo · Mar 13, 2024 10:52am PDT · 8 comments
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TikTok Ban Bill Spotlights Open Secret: App Loses Money

By Jing Yang, Kate Clark and Erin Woo · Mar 13, 2024 10:52am PDT · 8 comments
TikTok, facing a growing threat of a U.S. ban, has been a global juggernaut over the past few years, drawing more than a billion monthly users and prompting rivals to launch similar services. But what is an open secret among investors is that the app loses money. TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, doesn’t disclose TikTok’s financial... TikTok, facing a growing threat of a U.S. ban, has been a global juggernaut over the past few...
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TikTok Ban Threat Is Déjà Vu Moment

By Martin Peers · Mar 15, 2023 5:33pm PDT · 1 comment
What a bunch of Keystone cops. That’s the only way to think about the national security folks behind the latest U.S. threat to ban TikTok. As The Information reported just now, following an earlier report from The Wall Street Journal, the Biden administration is demanding that Chinese tech giant ByteDance sell TikTok—or else face a ban. That’s... What a bunch of Keystone cops. That’s the only way to think about the national security folks...
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What TikTok Ban Means for Google, Facebook, Apple: The Information’s Tech Briefing

By Martin Peers · Sep 18, 2020 6:02pm PDT
The Trump administration’s order to ban new downloads of TikTok and WeChat has raised an important question for the likes of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix: Should they file a legal challenge to the order?Banning foreign-owned apps has near-term implications for Apple, which faces the prospect that iPhone owners who rely on... The Trump administration’s order to ban new downloads of TikTok and WeChat has raised an...