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TikTok is said to be conducting tests so users can play games on its video-sharing app in Vietnam, part of plans for a major push into gaming, according to people familiar with the matter.

Four Democratic US lawmakers have asked the CEOs of YouTube, TikTok, Twitter and Facebook owner Meta to archive content that can be produced as an evidence of suspected Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media companies should act to blunt the effect of false information in this year's US midterm congressional elections, requests rights groups. After the 2020 presidential race won by US Democratic President Joe Biden, several social media platforms backed away from designing policies to fight election dis...

Google is rolling out a new feature for YouTube Shorts. With the newly launched Green Screen feature, creators can include a short video segment from another user’s YouTube video or Shorts video when creating new Shorts content.

Elon Musk's decision to accept some foreign investors as part of his $44 billion buyout of Twitter runs the risk of inviting the kind of regulatory scrutiny over US national security that social media peer TikTok faced, as per legal experts.

TikTok has announced an ad revenue-sharing programme with the social media platform's most prominent creators. The new TikTok Pulse programme allows companies to place their ads next to user content in specific categories, including health, fashion, cooking, gaming and others with creators getting a cut.

TikTok has become the world's top downloaded app in the first quarter of 2022, according to Sensor Tower. The short-video app surpassed Instagram to lead the market of apps around the world.

Google parent Alphabet reported its first quarterly revenue miss as war in Ukraine hurt YouTube ad sales. YouTube saw advertising sales of $6.9 billion (roughly Rs. 52,891 crore), but missed analysts' target of $7.5 billion (roughly Rs. 57,485 crore), according to FactSet.

Google is rolling out new features for YouTube Shorts. The search giant is bringing the Shorts shelf to tablets and the Web over the next few weeks. Additionally, it is allowing creators to include a short video segment from another user’s YouTube video or Shorts video when creating new Shorts content.

Jiya Kiran Valambhia's success story as a social media influencer is a familiar one in the age of TikTok.

Research firm Insider Intelligence reports that video-sharing app TikTok could triple its ad revenue to more than $11 billion (roughly Rs. 83,620 crore). That's more than Twitter and Snapchat's combined sales.

The war in Ukraine has rapidly positioned TikTok as the number one source of misinformation thanks to its gigantic number of users and minimal filtering of content, experts say.

Meta is rolling out a new Sharing to Reels feature for users. With the latest update, users can share short-form videos on Facebook pages from third-party apps. The update allows developers to add a Reels button to their app so users can post short videos directly to Reels. Meta has also integrated with Smule, Vita and VivaVideo for the new functio...

The Washington Post reported that Meta is using smear tactics to go after TikTok. Meta, the Post reported, hired a Republican consulting firm called Targeted Victory to “orchestrate a nationwide campaign” against TikTok.

As China continues to assert its economic might, it is using the global social media ecosystem to expand its already formidable influence.

TikTok is said to be conducting tests so users can play games on its video-sharing app in Vietnam, part of plans for a major push into gaming, according to people familiar with the matter.

Four Democratic US lawmakers have asked the CEOs of YouTube, TikTok, Twitter and Facebook owner Meta to archive content that can be produced as an evidence of suspected Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media companies should act to blunt the effect of false information in this year's US midterm congressional elections, requests rights groups. After the 2020 presidential race won by US Democratic President Joe Biden, several social media platforms backed away from designing policies to fight election dis...

Google is rolling out a new feature for YouTube Shorts. With the newly launched Green Screen feature, creators can include a short video segment from another user’s YouTube video or Shorts video when creating new Shorts content.

Elon Musk's decision to accept some foreign investors as part of his $44 billion buyout of Twitter runs the risk of inviting the kind of regulatory scrutiny over US national security that social media peer TikTok faced, as per legal experts.

TikTok has announced an ad revenue-sharing programme with the social media platform's most prominent creators. The new TikTok Pulse programme allows companies to place their ads next to user content in specific categories, including health, fashion, cooking, gaming and others with creators getting a cut.

TikTok has become the world's top downloaded app in the first quarter of 2022, according to Sensor Tower. The short-video app surpassed Instagram to lead the market of apps around the world.

Google parent Alphabet reported its first quarterly revenue miss as war in Ukraine hurt YouTube ad sales. YouTube saw advertising sales of $6.9 billion (roughly Rs. 52,891 crore), but missed analysts' target of $7.5 billion (roughly Rs. 57,485 crore), according to FactSet.

Google is rolling out new features for YouTube Shorts. The search giant is bringing the Shorts shelf to tablets and the Web over the next few weeks. Additionally, it is allowing creators to include a short video segment from another user’s YouTube video or Shorts video when creating new Shorts content.

Jiya Kiran Valambhia's success story as a social media influencer is a familiar one in the age of TikTok.

Research firm Insider Intelligence reports that video-sharing app TikTok could triple its ad revenue to more than $11 billion (roughly Rs. 83,620 crore). That's more than Twitter and Snapchat's combined sales.

The war in Ukraine has rapidly positioned TikTok as the number one source of misinformation thanks to its gigantic number of users and minimal filtering of content, experts say.

Meta is rolling out a new Sharing to Reels feature for users. With the latest update, users can share short-form videos on Facebook pages from third-party apps. The update allows developers to add a Reels button to their app so users can post short videos directly to Reels. Meta has also integrated with Smule, Vita and VivaVideo for the new functio...

The Washington Post reported that Meta is using smear tactics to go after TikTok. Meta, the Post reported, hired a Republican consulting firm called Targeted Victory to “orchestrate a nationwide campaign” against TikTok.

As China continues to assert its economic might, it is using the global social media ecosystem to expand its already formidable influence.