News & Reviews:   TikTok

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It seems that TikTok has recently donated £5 million to the Royal College of Nursing Foundation, in order to help frontliners in their battle against the COVID-19 outbreak. Based on bbc.com, it seems that the amount donated by TikTok is considered one of the largest contributions received from a social media company to date.

For those who are familiar with TikTok, you know it as an app filled mostly with short and silly videos. But the company is looking to switch things up by going in a different direction. Reports state that the Chinese version of TikTok, which is known as Douyin in China, has started to offer movie streaming.

When it comes to kids, you never know what they're doing on their phones these days. That's why many parents want to have a form of control over their activities, even the digital ones. Being a popular app with kids, TikTok has made the decision to provide more app control to parents.

Following up for 2020 this year, Digi showed off their 5G tech, Mobile Legends Bang Bang Professional League Season 5 teams got confirmed and GrabPay weighed in on their e-Tunai eWallet. There’s also a number of CES awards for LG and HONOR while MoUs got signed and more. Check it out below.

It seems that another Chinese software has run afoul of the US government recently. The US Navy has just banned all of its personnel from using the app TikTok on any government-issued mobile device. It's claimed that the app presents some cybersecurity concerns.

This week sees a bit more variety of happenings for our TechNave NewsByte 2019. There's SOCAR's promo, LG winning some awards at the first Asia Tech Awards, Mudah.my encouraging us to sell back stuff we might have bought unnecessarily, and more. Let's see what these are all about, shall we?

It seems like Facebook is doing a good job of keeping its younger generation of users on Instagram. However, the social media company is not stopping yet. It has developed a new feature that is similar to the one on TikTok and it's already released to Instagram users in Brazil. 

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Tiktok creator has given the confirmation that they are currently working on a TikTok smartphone, which is due to release sometime in the future. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like the aforementioned smartphone will be released outside of China.