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Facebook tests TikTok-style video format on its main app in India

Facebook is going all in on short-form videos. After flirting with the idea in Lasso, a TikTok-clone it tested in select markets, and adding a similar feature to Instagram recently, the company is ex

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How China’s ACRCloud detects copyrighted music in short videos

Music is the front and center in the rise of TikTok and other short video apps. It’s not just the video platforms that are harvesting the fruit of their surging popularity. Music rights holders

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When you need content to build links, use social proof of concept

Before tackling a new content idea, it’s comforting to have evidence that it’ll go off without a hitch.Of course, that’s not possible.You can never know 100% that a piece of content will meet your obj

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What's the logic behind Trump's WeChat ban?

04:40 Going after Chinese companies is part of U.S. President Donald Trump's playbook, and nobody's off the hook. The latest victim is Tencent, a company that owns WeChat, one of the m

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Anti-maskers in Tokyo hold 'cluster festival'

Masayuki Hiratsuka, leader of the Popular Sovereignty Party of Japan, held a "cluster music festival" on the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo on August 9, urging his supporters to attend the activities w

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Reddit CEO defends allowing Trump ads ahead of presidential election

Reddit is gearing up to run ads for President Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election despite concerns from employees, TechCrunch has learned. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman addressed some of

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Creators need better community tools. Circle wants to fill the gap

Entrepreneurial creators have to do a lot with limited time. They need to, well, create, but then they also need to build their marketing funnels, convert users to their paid products, and manage busi

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Hackers say ‘jackpotting’ flaws tricked popular ATMs into spitting out cash

In 2010, the late Barnaby Jack, a world-renowned security researcher, hacked an ATM live on stage at the Black Hat conference by tricking the cash dispenser into spitting out a stream of dollar bills.

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Special raises $2.26M to build a subscription platform for online creators

Special is a new startup offering online video creators a way to move beyond advertising for their income.The service was created by the team behind tech consulting and development firm Triple Tree So

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Global Business Daily: Virgin bankruptcy, gold hits record price

"What’s drawing investors to gold now is not faith in gold itself, it's much more a lack of faith in other things."As the price of gold reaches historic highs – despite the general economic situation

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YouTube bans thousands of Chinese accounts to combat ‘coordinated influence operations’

YouTube has banned a large number of Chinese accounts it said were engaging in “coordinated influence operations” on political issues, the company announced today. 2,596 accounts from Chin

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Google Play Music to shut down starting in September, will disappear by December

Google’s plans to wind down its Google Play Music service in favor of the company’s newer YouTube Music have been known for some time. But Google this week has given users a deadline on ma

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Instagram Reels launches globally in over 50 countries, including US

Instagram Reels, the company’s significant effort in challenging TikTok on short-form creative content, is launching globally, starting today. The feature is being made available across 50 count

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No ban on TikTok in Philippines, says its presidential spokesman

AFP Photo Philippine Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque claimed that President Rodrigo Duterte respects free speech and has not banned any website, adding that the government finds no reason t

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Serialized fiction startup Radish raises $63.2M from SoftBank and Kakao

Radish is announcing that it has raised $63.2 million in new funding.Breaking up book-length stories into smaller chapters that are released over days or weeks is an idea that was popularized in the 1

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Battling expectations

When screenwriter Zhang Yingji was wandering on a Beijing street one winter night, she came across workers leaving a luxury retail store after their shift. Having taken off their tailored uniform and

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How ByteDance failed to save TikTok's U.S. business

VCG Photo After Huawei was labelled and targeted as an information security "threat", TikTok, the popular short-form video app, became the new target for many at a time when U.S. elections are