#Bytedance

I have an idea—a vision—that has been brewing for months, that I finally can put into words:The future medium of all knowledge is graph-based, and these new virtual maps of
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This is wiiiiiiild. Internet protectionism. A Balkanised internet. Everything we lambast China and Russia for, Trump and his pals are doinghttps://www.ft.com/content/2eb1859f-ea08-4c7e-9bdd-a6712389a389 "When they go low, we go lower&q
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A guy on reddit reversed engineered #TikTokHere’s what he found on the data it collects on youIt’s far worse than just stealing what’s on your clipboard: Just going to link
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[Thread] Let's talk about why the Tik Tok status quo doesn't make sense for America.There are 3 issues (2 longstanding problems + 1 more recent issue which has emerged to the forefront):https://twitter.com/rabois/status/1289696133
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The EU and US are both using concerns around data transfers (Facebook & TikTok), and the privacy and security of and government access to that data to further OTHER goals
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now an active politician: WSJA thread https://vinron.in/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-is-now-an-active-politician-wsj/ According to the latest report by WSJ, Facebook (https://vinron.in/?s=Facebook ) CEO
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Thread Let talk about @tiktok_us - It is the most Downloaded app in 2019 reaching over 1B+ download according to play store.- It is owned my a Chinese company called
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Should the USA BAN Tiktok (as India has already done)?Leaving aside the political motivations re the administration, there’s probably a real interesting discussion here (continued in next tweet) I’ve always
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Trump memerintahkan perusahaan China ByteDance untuk menjual usaha Tiktok di Amerika pada perusahaan Amerika.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/trump-to-order-china-s-bytedance-to-sell-tiktok-u-s-operations Kenapa Amrik ga b
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Yalla is a voice-centric social network for the MENA region that IPO'd this week at a $1.3b valuationTheir two apps had a combined 12.5m MAUs in Q2 '20 using them
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Unofficial list of the 16 greatest investments ever(Minimum gain of $1B) 1/ The best of the best Naspers - Tencent (2001): $32m -> $250B (7800x)Softbank - Alibaba (2000): $20m ->
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In 1987, six college friends made $30 million with their new trading firm.Today they're billionaires, having proven themselves on the trading floor, in poker rooms, on race tracks, even in
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1) Let's kick off May Chinese tech threads.In 2017, Ctrip was the undisputed OTA market leader with ~50% of China's online hotel bookings. They quashed competitors and lead a consolidation
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THREAD about how Douyin, the Chinese version of #TikTok, is banning livestreamers for speaking Cantonese instead of Mandarin. 1/ On Monday, the Guangzhou-based WeChat account Yangcheng Net (羊城网) posted an
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Two mini-scoops in this Saturday @FT Big Read:@Tencent has its own “an internal adaptation” to #CAID, the IDFA-workaround out of China, called QAID. @glumobile got acquired b/c of IDFA/ATT implications.A
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This is a thread about The Everything Bubble. And about #Bitcoin being for the people. There’s a story from David Foster Wallace that goes like this - there are
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