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Credit: 123RF CapCut, an all-in-one video editing app owned by TikTok parent company ByteDance, has surpassed 200 million monthly active users, according to a report from Chinese financial media outlet Baijing.  Why it matters: CapCut’s success comes amid an increasingly hostile climate for China-developed apps in the US and European…

Two US Senators are all set to introduce a new bill in the legislature to let the government ban a few foreign software and tech companies. As per reports, the popular short-video platform TikTok might be on the list. In a comment made on Fox News Sunday, the chairman of…

Some strange things take over TikTok, but the latest viral trend might just be the strangest and the most disgusting. TikTok users are discovering something called the ‘Dubai Porta Potty’, which is rumoured to go on amongst influencers and the elite in the United Arab Emirates. So… What is Dubai…

SINGAPORE – Teenager Zoe Gabriel, who went viral in January over a Charles & Keith “luxury” bag, is now a model for the brand. Miss Gabriel, 17, joins a group of women from the home-grown fashion label in its campaign for International Women’s Day, which falls on Wednesday. In an…

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Promising reviews: "I always see people using this on TikTok, but the videos don’t even do it justice. The Pink Stuff made everything spotless. Counters, stoves, sinks, literally everything. Best cleaning product in the world and I will literally never use any other brand again." —Hailey Peters "My three year old recently…

Somehow the Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber discourse continues to dominate headlines and TikTok feeds in 2023. Fans of the 30-year-old pop star and the 26-year-old model have been going to battle for their faves since 2018 when news broke that Justin Bieber had proposed to Hailey Baldwin just six…

TikTok faces further setbacks as the US House Foreign Affairs Committee grants President Joe Biden authority to prohibit the Chinese-owned app, depending on his evaluation of the situation, amidst ongoing security concerns regarding its possible links to the CCP. The US government has already declared a complete prohibition of TikTok…

Thursday, March 2: The feds have banned the app on government cellphones. Will the provinces follow suit? You can write to us at letters@ottawacitizen.com Canadian government phones can no longer carry the TikTok app. Photo by FLORENCE LO /REUTERS Will others ban TikTok on phones? Advertisement 2 This advertisement has…

Drugmaker Eli Lilly is slashing the price of insulin to no more than $35 a month. A key House committee has voted to give President Biden the power to ban TikTok. And the second time was a charm: SpaceX and NASA launched a four man crew to the space station…