- TikTok Violates EU Privacy And Consumer Protection Laws, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Social video app TikTok violates the rights of European consumers, fails to protect children from "hidden advertising and inappropriate content" and doesn't clearly inform users about its data practices, ...
- ByteDance Reportedly Calls Off Oracle, Walmart Deal
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 15, 2021
TikTok's parent company ByteDance reportedly shelved its deal with Oracle and Walmart now that former President Donald Trump is no longer in office. ...
- Court Grants Biden Administration Request To Delay Decision About WeChat
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 11, 2021
At the request of the Biden administration, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday agreed to hold off on deciding a battle over the former administration's attempt to b ...
- TikTok Sale On Hold As Biden Admin Reviews Global Tech Security
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, February 10, 2021
TikTok's deal to sell its U.S. operations to Oracle and Walmart has been shelved indefinitely, awaiting a resolution based on the Biden administration's in-process review of security issues surrounding technolo ...
- Dentsu Finds 'Social Good' Branding Attitudes Index High Among Most Nations, Less So In Japan
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, February 10, 2021
An overwhelming majority of consumers have a "positive" attitude toward brands that promote social good, according to a multinational survey released today by Dentsu. The study, conducted among social med ...
- TikTok Ban Raises 'Constitutional Alarms,' Watchdogs Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 25, 2021
The government's attempt to ban TikTok should "ring constitutional alarms," the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation are telling a feder ...
- Sen. Marco Rubio Calls On Twitter's Jack Dorsey To Explain 'Content Moderation Process'
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Sen. Marco Rubio's letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey requested an explanation for the company's failure to remove or label a falsified image posted by a member of the Chine ...
- Influencers Urge Appeals Court To Allow TikTok To Continue Operating
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 18, 2021
President Trump's planned TikTok ban would harm people who post content to the service for profit, three influencers tell appeals court. ...
- L'Oreal China Taps Publicis For Media Planning And Buying, Cites 'Bespoke Agency Solution'
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, January 12, 2021
L'Oreal China has named Publicis Groupe its media planning and buying agency in China. The assignment, which is a three-year contract, begins early this year. ...
- Alibaba Investigated By China's Government For Monopolistic Practices
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, December 24, 2020
The probe looks into why merchants are required to sign exclusive cooperation pacts preventing their products and services being sold on other platforms. ...
- Trump Administration Fights To Proceed With TikTok Ban
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 11, 2020
An injunction preventing the planned TikTok ban "disrupts national security efforts," the government tells a federal appellate court. ...
- Second Judge Blocks TikTok Ban
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 8, 2020
A second federal judge has prohibited the government from enforcing an executive order by President Trump that would have effectively shut down TikTok in the U.S. ...
- 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 ...
