Launched in 2015, TopBuzz was the overseas equivalent of Chinese news aggregator Jinri Toutiao, meaning \"Today's Headlines\", which was one of Beijing-based ByteDance's first successes

Popular Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev posted a video on Twitter on Sunday showing the step-by-step deletion of several Chinese apps, a move he described as a 'national service'

The strategy is aimed not only at TikTok, which is not available in China, but all of ByteDance's non-China focused businesses, the sources said. Such businesses also include units in India like social networking app Helo

Mitron app: The Bengaluru-based app is led by 31-year-old IIT Roorkee alumnus Shivank Agarwal along with a team of five members and was launched in April

A recovery in fuel demand in India gathered momentum in the first half of May versus April as curbs on transport and industrial activity were partly lifted in areas that have contained the spread of coronavirus; The head of International Monetary Fund has said the global economy will take much longer to recover fully from the shock caused by the new coronavirus than initially expected. Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the Fund was likely to revise downward its forecast for a 3% contraction in GDP in 2020, but gave no details; Uber has cut 3,000 jobs from its workforce, its second major wave of layoffs in two weeks. Coronavirus has obviously slashed demand for rides. Watch this and more news on News Blast.Also Read: Moderna stock rises 30% after coronavirus vaccine shows promise; stock up 416% in year so far

Coronavirus effect: Uber cuts 3,000 jobs as demand tumblesUber has cut 3,000 jobs from its workforce, its second major wave of layoffs in two . Coronavirus has obviously slashed demand for rides. The San Francisco company has cut a quarter of its workforce since the year began, eliminating 3,700 people from the payroll earlier this month. It is trying to rejig its strategy by re-focusing on its core business, moving people and delivering food and groceries, said CEO Dara Khosrow...

Walt Disney Co's top streaming executive, Kevin Mayer, will leave the entertainment and theme parks giant to become the chief executive officer of TikTok, the popular video app owned by China's ByteDance Technology Co

SoftBank Group Corp CEO Masayoshi Son said winners from the current crisis included companies in food delivery, online medical services, video streaming and online shopping

Mayer's appointment will be effective June 1, when he will also become chief operating officer of ByteDance, the Chinese company said

With this investment, Jio Platforms has raised Rs 67,194.75 crore from leading technology investors including Facebook, Silver Lake, Vista Equity Partners and General Atlantic in less than four weeks

The short video sharing platform TikTok has introduced a new feature that would let parents set restrictions on their kids' accounts.

New hires will support the company's various apps such as TikTok and Toutiao. The company aims to have 1,00,000 staff globally by the end of the year

With the 'Shorts' feature, YouTube would be looking to complete with TikTok in the short video format segment. TikTok, in a few years, has captured a huge audience and is among the top social media apps

A report says that TikTok content teams are told not to promote videos made by users they deem ugly, fat and poor.

Live Photos of the new Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 series leaked today ahead of its official launch on March 12

The last time that the phone was on sale was on March 3 but the sale was only for its Pheonix Red colour variant

Apple has announced a free repair for third generation or 2019 iPad Airs that are facing the blank screen issue

Motorola has officially launched the Moto G8 in Brazil and will soon reach other markets. Check out the specification and prices.

Parties interested will only be able to buy the Oppo Reno 3 Pro on Flipkart as the phone is not available on any other online platform

The key differentiators of Resso over traditional music streaming apps include social sharing for expressing themselves via shareable user-generated content, songs through music accompanied gifs, lyrics and videos