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IT MIGHT just be confused for one of the world’s savviest tech investors. China Internet Investment Fund’s (CIIF) portfolio is the envy of venture capitalists everywhere. It owns part of a subsidiary of ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent of social-media group TikTok, and Weibo, a Twitter-like platform. It has a stake…

Medical experts are speaking out against Covid-19 vaccine “detoxes” that some inaccurately claim can remove the effects of vaccinations received under mandates and other public health rulings. In one TikTok video that has received hundreds of thousands of views, Carrie Madej, an osteopath based in Georgia, falsely claims a bath…

Thanks in part to the Kardashians and the ’90s revival of the past few years, lip liner has become nonnegotiable in most of our makeup routines. Though the premise seems simple—the name pretty much says it all, right?—there are certain techniques that can up your lip game to the next…

This is a pretty cool announcement in itself, but in terms of timing, it’s also a brilliant example of corporate trolling, and clapping back at a competitor. Today, Disney has announced a new partnership with TikTok which will enable TikTok users to choose from a range of Disney character voices…

A fresh study by TikTok has underlined Indonesians’ obsession with K-pop, showing that users from the archipelago are the top content creators on the platform in terms of K-pop influence. The study explains why you often come across K-pop elements embedded in posts by Indonesian TikTok content creators when you’re…

A 911 caller says he alerted police to a teenager he believed was in danger because he saw the girl mouthing for help as she passed on the interstate in Kentucky last week, not because a hand signal popularized on TikTok that indicates distress. Authorities have said that a driver…

Instagram is once again adding more TikTok-inspired features into its app, with the addition of a new ‘Text to Speech’ option in Reels clips, which provides an artificial voice to read any text overlays you add to your clips, and new voice changer options to alter your vocal tones. First…

In France, a platinum certification is awarded for moving an equivalent of 100,000 copies while Gold in the UK is awarded for moving an equivalent of 200,000 streams. After Ckay's 'Love Nwantiti' hit 15 billion streams on TikTok on November 9, 2021, it was crowned the biggest global hit of…

A movie theater employee went viral on TikTok after sharing a reality not many of us were aware of: they can see everything that goes on in our seats. The video, posted by user @.no1headache on TikTok, has already received more than 15.3 million views and 62,200 comments since it…

A man has been charged with kidnapping in the case of a missing girl who used hand signals that went viral on TikTok to show a driver she was in danger. The girl was inside a silver Toyota when she made the gesture, created to address a worldwide rise in…