- 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 of ...
- 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 stores ...
- 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 with ...
- 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 told ...
- 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 and ...
- 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 being ...
- 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 of ...
- 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's ...
- 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 for ...
- 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 "The ...
- 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 York ...
- 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 Horizon ...
- 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 during, ...
- 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 grew ...
- 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 records ...
- Why Email May Not Work In China
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, July 13, 2020
Thinking of marketing in China? Email may not be the best channel to use. Apps are more popular. Here is an analysis of this cultural reality. ...
- Longtime Disney Exec Kevin Mayer Exits, Named CEO Of TikTok
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 18, 2020
Mayer, who will also be COO of ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, had been chairman of Disney's Direct-to-Consumer & International unit since early 2018. ...
- MediaCom Wins Duracell's Global Media Account
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, May 13, 2020
The award, effective July 1, came after a formal review that began last November. The incumbent was Publicis Groupe's Starcom. ...
- WPP Bracing For 'Tough' Second Quarter
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, April 29, 2020
WPP reported a 4.9% revenue decline from continuing operations (excluding the impact of the Kantar sale) with a 3.3% dip in organic net revenue. The good news: China appears to ...
- WPP Revenues Down In Q1
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, April 29, 2020
A trading update from WPP shows that revenue fell by a little over 3% in the first quarter. According to "The Times," underlying revenue was down by a little more ...
- TAG Allies With China Advertising Association
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 17, 2020
The Chinese organization will promote TAG's certification programs -- including its anti-fraud initiative -- to members. ...
- Consumer Confidence Seen As Great Unknown Post COVID-19
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, April 14, 2020
While COVID-19 is disrupting some supply chains, the great unknown for the future is consumer confidence, according to a new study. In addition to development and the introduction of 5G ...
- Roller Coaster Mobile App Spend, Ad Revenue Tracks COVID-19 Ups And Downs
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 9, 2020
Mobile use continues to rise, but in a jerking pattern. Overall in-app purchase revenue rose steadily in the past few weeks during the pandemic quarantine, up 10% this week globally ...
- Huawei Wants Google Apps For Its App Store
Around the Net In Digital, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 2, 2020
Huawei, largely cut off from working with Google, is hoping Google will publish some apps, including Gmail, in the Huawei AppGallery. However, the chances of that seem minimal. ...
