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A look at Mexico City’s Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok and other Chinese companies have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community (Daniela Dib/Rest of the World)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 29, 2025

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TikTok Shop reached more than $10 billion in U.S. sales from 600,000 creators between January and October, up from $5 billion year-over-year; global sales are comparable to eBay (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 26, 2025

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TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced tagging technology for AI content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 19, 2025

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Meta and TikTok say they will comply with Australia’s social media ban for under-16s, which comes into force on December 10, but warn the landmark law could be difficult to enforce (Agence France-Presse)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 28, 2025

Agence France-Presse: Meta and TikTok say they will comply with Australia’s social media ban for under-16s, which comes into force…

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Trump and Xi will “close” a TikTok deal on Thursday in South Korea, confirming a final agreement between the United States and China on the sale (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 26, 2025

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Internal memo: TikTok plans leadership changes, moving two teams under ByteDance veteran Fiona Zhi and rolling back previous efforts to hold Western leaders accountable (Juro Osawa/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 23, 2025

Juro Osawa / The information: Internal memo: TikTok plans leadership changes, moving two teams under ByteDance veteran Fiona Zhi and…

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A profile of Silver Lake Co-PDG Egon Durban, who negotiated the EA takeover with Jared Kushner, after the high challenges of the EP company from Tiktok in Altera (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 2, 2025

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How JD Vance played a key role in the US Tiktok, in the midst of concerns concerning the vice-president acting as a business manager in the forced spin-off of a private company (Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 28, 2025

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An extract of books details how a small team of Content Conservatives hired by Bytedance in Mexico City in 2018 shaped the Tiktok algorithm for you in Latin America (Emily Baker-White / Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 28, 2025

Emily Baker-White / Forbes:: An extract of books details how a small team of Content Conservatives hired by Bytedance in…

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Bytedance will maintain the ownership of commercial operations generating Tiktok income such as electronic commerce and advertising (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 26, 2025

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China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

Airlines discover the grass isn’t always greener with new engines

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Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly launch obesity pills, prepare for Medicare coverage

United CEO rejects airline mergers after US rejection

Lavazza launches single-serve tablets to prepare espresso

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Mike Johnson ceded his power as Speaker of the House to Trump

Hakeem Jeffries goes on Fox News and calls them out for ignoring GOP bigots

Trump Melts Down and Leaves to Meet the Press When Asked for Evidence of Election Rigging

Trump holds sit-down event in Wisconsin as apparent decline deepens

In an interview, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, said the company plans its IPO for 2028, regardless of the success of Anthropic and OpenAI’s IPOs (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

US FCC waives deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still scheduled to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Microsoft has disabled more than 70 of its repositories on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Meta invests $115 million in workforce academy, free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees on Meta construction sites (Wall Street Journal)

Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode improvements aimed at agent coding workflows (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Browsing: TikTok

A look at Mexico City’s Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok and other Chinese companies have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community (Daniela Dib/Rest of the World)

TikTok Shop reached more than $10 billion in U.S. sales from 600,000 creators between January and October, up from $5 billion year-over-year; global sales are comparable to eBay (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)

TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced tagging technology for AI content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Meta and TikTok say they will comply with Australia’s social media ban for under-16s, which comes into force on December 10, but warn the landmark law could be difficult to enforce (Agence France-Presse)

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Trump and Xi will “close” a TikTok deal on Thursday in South Korea, confirming a final agreement between the United States and China on the sale (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Internal memo: TikTok plans leadership changes, moving two teams under ByteDance veteran Fiona Zhi and rolling back previous efforts to hold Western leaders accountable (Juro Osawa/The Information)

A profile of Silver Lake Co-PDG Egon Durban, who negotiated the EA takeover with Jared Kushner, after the high challenges of the EP company from Tiktok in Altera (Financial Times)

How JD Vance played a key role in the US Tiktok, in the midst of concerns concerning the vice-president acting as a business manager in the forced spin-off of a private company (Washington Post)

An extract of books details how a small team of Content Conservatives hired by Bytedance in Mexico City in 2018 shaped the Tiktok algorithm for you in Latin America (Emily Baker-White / Forbes)

Bytedance will maintain the ownership of commercial operations generating Tiktok income such as electronic commerce and advertising (Reuters)