- White House Appeals Injunction That Prevents TikTok Ban
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 13, 2020
The White House is appealing an order issued earlier this month that prohibits the government from effectively shutting down the social video app TikTok in the U.S. ...
- White House Lacks Authority To Ban TikTok Downloads, Company Tells Appeals Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 9, 2020
TikTok has asked an appellate court in Washington, D.C. to uphold an injunction that prevents the Commerce Department from attempting to ban downloads of the app. ...
- Holiday Shoppers Are Spending More Or The Same As In 2019: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, November 9, 2020
But many want personalized suggestions, and others plan to rely on social media, McKinsey reports. ...
- Baidu: Data Reveals Requirements To Rank Higher
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Traditional western commerce brands can rank on the first page of Baidu, China's top search engine, even if their website includes links to blocked sites such as Facebook and YouT ...
- White House Fights To Reinstate Ban On WeChat Downloads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 2, 2020
WeChat gives Chinese authorities "a powerful avenue to collect vast amounts of sensitive personal data that can then be used to the detriment of all Americans," the White House argu ...
- Judge Blocks Trump Administration's TikTok Ban
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, November 1, 2020
Siding with TikTok content creators, a federal judge has prohibited the government from enforcing an executive order that would have effectively shut down the social video app in the ...
- White House Presses To Move Forward With TikTok Ban
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, October 17, 2020
Citing the risk of Chinese espionage, the Trump administration is seeking to lift an injunction that prevents the government from banning new downloads of social app TikTok. ...
- WeChat Allows Chinese Government To 'Build Dossiers' On Americans, DOJ Tells Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 15, 2020
The Trump administration is pressing to move forward with an order banning app platforms from allowing people to download the Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat. ...
- Trump Administration Seeks To Revive Ban On WeChat
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 25, 2020
"WeChat will continue to collect vast amounts of personal and sensitive information from approximately 19 million active daily users in the United States" unless the ban is allowed to procee ...
- Judge Blocks Trump Administration's WeChat Ban
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, September 20, 2020
Citing the First Amendment, a federal judge blocked an order that would have forced app stores to stop offering the Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat. ...
- TikTok Eyes U.S. IPO, Reportedly Recruits Instagram Co-Founder As CEO
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 18, 2020
How can Oracle adapt from an ad-tech company to supporting a consumer-facing application? Can a new partnership structure maintain its appeal? ...
- Oracle And Walmart Become Partners With TikTok, Trump Signs Off On Deal
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Saturday, September 19, 2020
The deal prevents TikTok from sharing U.S. data with the Chinese government. The Chinese government must now sign off on the transaction for it to go forward. As part ...
- Commerce Department Bans TikTok, WeChat In U.S.
Marketing Politics Weekly, Joe Mandese - Friday, September 18, 2020
Despite a deal confirmed earlier this week for Oracle to serve as its "trusted technology partner," TikTok and another popular Chinese app, WeChat, will be banned from U.S. app stor ...
- ByteDance Rejects Microsoft's Bid For TikTok
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, September 13, 2020
NBC News Business & Tech Correspondent Jo Ling Kent tweeted that Oracle has been chosen as the technology partner to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations, citing a source directly familiar wi ...
- White House To Review Oracle, ByteDance TikTok Proposal: Mnuchin
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, September 14, 2020
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States will review Oracle's potential TikTok purchase this week and present President Trump with an opinion, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to ...
- China Would Rather See TikTok Shutdown In U.S. Than Force Sale
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 11, 2020
Reuters reports that China would rather see the app shut down in the U.S. than undergo a forced sale because Beijing officials think the forced sale would make both ByteDance a ...
- Chinese Authorities Tell Media Not To Cover 'Mulan'
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, September 11, 2020
The movie's planned appeal to the Chinese market has hit another pothole. Chinese officials' concerns over overseas backlash to the film's links to the Xinjiang region, where Muslims are bei ...
- Disney's 'Mulan' Faces Social Blowback, Revived Boycott Call, Low Advance Sales In China
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, September 10, 2020
The movie scored impressive views and on-demand revenue in its Labor Day weekend debut on Disney+, but a boycott call and controversy around China's Hong Kong crackdown and interment ...
- ByteDance Explores Avoiding Full Sale Of TikTok
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, September 10, 2020
China's recent move to restrict export of AI tech has prompted ByteDance to talk with U.S. officials about whether there are viable options outside of a full-out sale of TikTok ...
- Suit Accuses Yahoo Of Providing Dissident's Email Account To Chinese Officials
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 3, 2020
Yahoo is being sued by a survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, who claims Yahoo gave his email account to party officials, enabling them to capture and imprison him f ...
- China Using TikTok To Push Back Against 'America First,' Analyst Says
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 3, 2020
"I would not do the deal without the algorithms that have proven to work very well," said Francis Bassolino, managing partner at Alaris in Shanghai, China. ...
- TikTok Core Algorithm Reportedly Stalling Sale Of U.S. Operations
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Negotiations for the sale of TikTok's U.S. business have been blocked, and the application's core algorithm seems to be the challenge. ...
- General Atlantic, Sequoia Reportedly Driving Bid For TikTok
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Bidders have been asked to submit offers by the end of the week. One of the bidding parties could enter an exclusive negotiation soon, according to a report in "T ...
- What Do You Get When You Mix Brick, Mortar And Live Streaming?
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, August 24, 2020
When last we checked in with Dan Hodges, it was last September and he had just launched the latest version of his latest venture Retail Store Tours into New Yo ...
- Horizon Finds Three-Quarters Of Americans Support TikTok Ban, But Encourages Brands To Begin Using It
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Americans overwhelmingly support a U.S. ban on TikTok including -- surprisingly -- more than half of frequent TikTok users, according to a consumer tracking study released this morning by Horiz ...
- Jimmy Lai's Arrest Speaks Louder Than Empty Rhetoric About Press Freedom
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Hong Kong police arrested the media tycoon who publishes the popular 'Apple Daily' tabloid. He is one of the most outspoken critics of the Chinese Communist Party. ...
- Google Deletes 2,600 China-Linked YouTube Channels
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 6, 2020
Google has removed about 2,600 YouTube channels its Threat Analysis Group says were connected with a "coordinated influence operation" from China. It also deleted channels connected with Russia and Iran durin ...
- Google Unveils Gaming Metrics, Features, Ad Units For Advertisers, Publishers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Google Play data shows people spend more than 1.4 trillion minutes playing mobile games each month, as searches for the term "best online game" between February and April 2020 gr ...
- Baidu Reaches Into Microsoft Native Advertising To Secure Brands Ad Space In U.S. Market
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, July 31, 2020
Baidu plans to grow its advertising base through a recent partnership with Microsoft's MSN native advertising platform, despite China's deteriorating relationship with the U.S. ...
- Researchers Find Over 10 Billion Exposed Records In Unsecured Databases: Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 31, 2020
Almost 10.5 billion pieces of consumer data, including email addresses, have been discovered in nearly 10,000 unsecured databases in 20 countries, NordPass reports. The countries with the most exposed recor ...
