2020-10-26
Lee Kun-hee, who headed Samsung from 1987 and arguably had more impact on South Korea than any other businessman or politician in the nation's history, was incapacitated since 2014 following a heart attack and died this Sunday. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Lee Kun-hee, who was chairman and chief executive of Samsung Electronics from 1998 to 2008 and its chairman since 2010, has died at age 78
more than a 10-fold rise from 1997, making it among the world's most valuable technology companies https://www.wsj.com/... David Josef Volodzko / @davidvolodzko : Lee Kun-hee, who ...
2020-01-02
TikTok put out its first transparency report. Here are some of the top requests it received from Jan to June. Legal requests for user ID: India - 107 US - 79 Japan - 35 Gov't requests for content removal: India - 11 US - 6 Japan - 3 https://www.tiktok.com/...
The Verge
In its first transparency report, TikTok says it received most requests for user data and content takedowns from India and USA, claims zero requests from China
The highest number of requests came from India and the US — TikTok released its first transparency report yesterday …
2019-12-25
Bytedance may soon open a global HQ outside China for TikTok — which has censored Uighur content and allegedly scrapes user phones for data it sends to servers in China — as “part of continuing efforts to shake off its Chinese image.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Bytedance is considering setting up a global headquarters for TikTok outside of China, as part of its effort to shake off its Chinese image
Mark Mazzetti, Nicole Perlroth, and Ronen Bergman: Colin Barry / KnowTechie : The US Navy is banning TikTok from government-issued devices because it's a “threat” Abhimanyu Ghoshal...
2019-12-24
Bytedance may soon open a global HQ outside China for TikTok — which has censored Uighur content and allegedly scrapes user phones for data it sends to servers in China — as “part of continuing efforts to shake off its Chinese image.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Bytedance is considering setting up a global headquarters for TikTok outside of China, as part of its effort to shake off its Chinese image
Singapore, London and Dublin are among cities being considered; no U.S. city made shortlist — Bytedance Inc. is considering setting …
2019-12-11
Now we get to see if the app blocks Uighur folk music or protest songs like “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord.” https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
ByteDance has been testing Resso, a new music app, in India and Indonesia, but is yet to seal rights deals with the world's three largest music companies
- India and Indonesia are first to sample ByteDance's latest — Company looking to become less dependent on advertising income