There is no dearth of consumers downloading music streaming apps and a large number of them are also willing to pay. But the challenge for most of these music streaming apps is to retain the active users

Social and live-commerce may soon surpass the marketplace model

With brands focussing on the platform and its audience, even users are looking at how to earn money from TikTok video app with the content they create

The first line-up of platform-exclusive podcasts from India will go live on December 3 and will be hosted by popular celebrities Gaurav Kapur, Mantra and Aastha-Ankit

The video app is especially popular with U.S. teenagers and young adults, drawing scrutiny at a time of rising tensions between Washington and Beijing

Bill Gates wishes for India to go malnutrition free; TikTok plans to launch music streaming service next month; Yashwant Sinha accuses Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman of \"fudging\" budget numbers to conceal the real fiscal deficit and more news on the News Blast.

'I wish India eradicates malnutrition one day', says Bill GatesBill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Saturday identified health as a prominent challenge facing India and said that he wished India got rid of malnutrition. \"If there was one wish I had for India, it would be to get rid of malnutrition because that reduces the potential of those kids so dramatically and their ability to provide and learn are reduced. It's like 15 IQ points go away,\" Gates sa...

In addition to on-demand music, ByteDance's app will include a library of short video clips for listeners to search through and synch to songs as they listen

In another incident, two youngsters died while shooting a TikTok video on a railway track in Bengaluru on September 28 after they were mowed down by a train

Nikhil Gandhi quit Times Network in September as Chief Operating Officer and President. Before Times Network, he worked as Vice President with Walt Disney for 9 years

TikTok hit the 500 million mark in monthly active users globally, according to a report in July by the South China Morning Post

ByteDance, which was loss-making in the first-half, also posted a profit in June and was confident of making a profit in the second half of the year

Digital news platforms so far had no limitations on foreign direct investment and have therefore been attracting lot of interest from global private equity companies

The action from the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) follows a complaint by the RSS-affiliated Swadeshi Jagran Manch, which had written to the Prime Minister alleging that these platforms are being used for anti-national and illegal activities.

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