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Chinese-owned social media platform hopes to remedy some of the issues that have plagued its live shopping rollout
TikTok slashes global revenue targets by at least $2bn
Fast-growing social media platform cuts ambitious goals by 20% as some staff complain of lavish spending
Chinese-owned social media platform makes sweeping leadership changes in its largest market
Dedicated tab on platform’s homepage is company’s first venture beyond videos
Employees at Chinese-owned social media platform organise to demand better working conditions
Social media platform records revenues of more than $990mn but losses also jump after recruiting thousands more staff
Partnership with TalkShopLive comes after in-house experiments with ecommerce in UK struggled to take off
Young entrepreneurs are exploiting the video platform’s influence to sell clothes IRL
Move comes as social media apps face pressure to tackle misinformation ahead of US midterm elections
Hong Kong developer Chinachem Group snaps up building from developer Helical for £160mn
Showing off insignias and brand hook-ups seems absurd amid a cost of living crisis
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Despite criticism as either too trivial or too threatening, the Chinese-owned platform has ‘out-blitzscaled the blitzscalers’ of Silicon Valley
Accusations reflect apparent clash of working cultures between UK ecommerce team and Chinese parent ByteDance
Internet platforms including TikTok, YouTube and Amazon say the future of retail is live ecommerce, but early experiments in the UK and the US suggest there’s still a long way to go
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Move comes after MPs and peers hit by sanctions from China raised concerns that Beijing used social media app as spyware
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Chinese-owned social media platform’s foray into livestream shopping in the UK has struggled to gain traction
Popular ByteDance-owned app seeks to allay lawmakers’ concerns about China’s access to sensitive information
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