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Today, TikTok pulled an unexpected move and a new update now allows TikTokers to post text-based content. The post text can be seen just beside the Photo option after tapping on 'Create'.

Today, TikTok just announced the arrival of its new Shopping Center feature in Malaysia. Simply labelled as TikTok Shop, it's a new section in the app for users to find more product options and help merchants better manage orders within TikTok Shop. 

With the recent General Election 15 held in Malaysia, the public has been growing weary and starting to spread some insightful content on social media. It has gotten so bad that TikTok had to step in to do something about it. 

Today, Ninja Van has been officially appointed as TikTok Shop's logistics partner in Malaysia. Through this partnership, online purchases checked out on TikTok Shop in Malaysia will now be picked up from sellers, sorted in hubs, and delivered to shoppers by Ninja Van.

If you're thinking what I'm thinking, yes, TikTok Avatars is probably inspired by Apple's Memoji and it's now rolling out on the platform. The function is also similar where you can create your own personalized style.

During the pandemic, more and more people have started to sign up for other social media accounts and make their own short clips. This includes TikTok and it has definitely caught a lot of attention from the youngsters, even to the point of making Instagram thinking of changing its business model to video sharing.

However, there is bound to be inappropriate videos here and there, and there are many minors below 13 years old joining the platform as well. In case you didn't know, you must be at least 13 years old and above to use it and turned out that there were many as 7 million of them pretending to be one.

TikTok has been the trendy platform for short form videos and today the company is announcing a new feature that will allow users to embed mini apps onto their videos. The new feature is named Jumps, and it is currently in the testing phase, so only a selected group of creators have access to the feature at the moment.

Previously, ByteDance had rejected Microsoft's offer in acquiring the company and we wondered what could happen next. Well, turns out that we got our answer sooner than we thought as it has been confirmed that TikTok is indeed working with Oracle and Walmart as well.

Financial Times revealed that Bytedance, the owners of popular app TikTok is currently developing its own smartphone. This isn’t that surprising as the company had acquired some people from Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Smartisan.