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TikTok Trials eCommerce Offering
TikTok Trials eCommerce Offering
July 01, 2022  |  Social Commerce

TikTok is testing a feed set apart for shopping in a bid to increase revenues for the company’s corporate parent, ByteDance, according to a TechCrunch...

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FCC’s Brendan Carr Asks Apple, Google to Remove TikTok App
FCC’s Brendan Carr Asks Apple, Google to Remove TikTok App
June 29, 2022  |  Big Tech

Brendan Carr, the senior Republican and the previous General Counsel on the Federal Communications Commission, sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet...

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Weekly TechReg EMEA: Google, TikTok Move to Appease Regulators
Weekly TechReg EMEA: Google, TikTok Move to Appease Regulators
June 24, 2022  |  emea

This week, the U.K. government and some regulatory agencies in the country announced changes to regulate the buy now, pay later (BNPL) sector and to...

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EMEA Daily: eCommerce Car Retailer Cazoo Moves Into Italian Market
EMEA Daily: eCommerce Car Retailer Cazoo Moves Into Italian Market
June 22, 2022  |  emea

In today’s top stories from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, online car retailer Cazoo has moved into Italy with its eCommerce car-buying and -selling...

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TikTok Agrees to Improve EU Consumer Rights, Avoiding Potential Sanctions
TikTok Agrees to Improve EU Consumer Rights, Avoiding Potential Sanctions
June 21, 2022  |  Regulation

TikTok will be boosting protections aimed to help children avoid persuasive ads on the platform, Reuters reported Tuesday (June 21). TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance,...

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Today in TechREG: UK Regulator to Review Credit Card Fees; TikTok Steps up Consumer Protections to Settle EU Dispute
Today in TechREG: UK Regulator to Review Credit Card Fees; TikTok Steps up Consumer Protections...
June 21, 2022  |  Regulation

Today in TechREG, the U.K. Payment Regulator on Tuesday (June 21) published more details of the upcoming market reviews on Visa and Mastercard’s processing fees...

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EMEA Daily: UK Could Revamp 50-Year-Old Credit Law
EMEA Daily: UK Could Revamp 50-Year-Old Credit Law
June 17, 2022  |  emea

In today’s top stories from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the U.K. looks at overhauling its decades-old Consumer Credit Act to reduce costs for...

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TikTok Sees Exodus of Influencers From UK Shopping Service
TikTok Sees Exodus of Influencers From UK Shopping Service
June 17, 2022  |  Retail

Citing low pay, long hours and inferior products, TikTok influencers in the United Kingdom have begun leaving the platform’s eCommerce program, the Financial Times (FT)...

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Facebook to Restructure Feed Around Videos to Take on TikTok
Facebook to Restructure Feed Around Videos to Take on TikTok
June 16, 2022  |  Facebook

Meta’s Facebook is planning a redesign to compete with TikTok and will restructure its main feed around videos and tweak its algorithm, The Verge reported,...

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