News & Reviews:   TikTok

When it comes to social media platforms, TikTok is rather popular in Malaysia. As you may know, a lot of TikTok videos involve music. Of course, you can only use music that is allowed. This is why it's great when our options have increased.

Sometimes you hear the most bizarre of news from the UK, like people claiming that 5G towers spread viruses or 11-year-olds being caught driving. But it doesn't look like people from the UK are going to stop being weird, as there's a report of a 12-year-old suing TikTok.

E-payment services have become more and more popular nowadays. Besides letting users make payments, some services have also been offering various features like transfer and cashback. Now, it looks like the parent company of TikTok is interested in starting their own e-payment service as well. It is spotted that ByteDance has applied for a new trademark under the name "Tik Tok Payment".

Recently, short-form video contents are becoming a trending style that creators and users will look up to when they are browsing on each social media platform especially on TikTok and Instagram. Today, Google is reported on testing a new mobile search feature that would surface TikTok and Instagram videos in their own dedicated carousel. 

From the Trump administration demanding ByteDance to sell TikTok to major data leaks, 2020 has certainly been a rough year for TikTok as a company. But that's got nothing to do with general users. For us, there's plenty in 2020 to look back to fondly and the app now does that for you.

With the year coming to a close, we start to look back on all the things that have happened this year. Pandemic aside, there were plenty of things that many would consider dumbfounding or just sad, and that applies to tech as well.

In that vein, we decided to look back at some of the saddest and worst tech news for 2020. Maybe you'll find it just as dumb as we did, but without further ado let's take a look!

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sure been busy these days. Last week, it accused Facebook of running a monopoly and demanded the sale of Instagram and WhatsApp. Now, the organisation has placed nine tech companies under investigation.

TikTok have partnered with Korea Tourism Organization to launch a #IYKoongChallenge, and you may join the challenge from now until 22 November to stand a chance to win yourself a round-trip ticket to Seoul.

It looks like the influence of TikTok is pretty strong. After Instagram introduced a new TikTok-like feature named Reels a while ago, Netflix is reported to be following in the footsteps as well by setting up similar stuff. Today, it is announced that a new feature called Fast Laughs will be starting to roll out on Netflix, offering videos that come in short format to entertain the users.

By now, you should know that Donald Trump lost his election campaign and Joe Biden will be the new US President. Trump's defeat also got us thinking about two things - will the ban be lifted on Huawei and how is the TikTok negotiation thing going on?