Tag: tiktok

Trump says new US sovereign wealth fund could purchase TikTok

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund and suggested that it could be used...

Here are the apps battling to be become the ‘TikTok for Bluesky’

TikTok’s potential U.S. ban has sparked a flurry of development within the open social web community. Several new applications are being built that...

Bluesky adds video to user profiles

Social network Bluesky is doubling down on video. After it added a new TikTok-like custom video feed last week in the wake of...

Perplexity submits a new bid for TikTok

Perplexity AI has submitted a revised proposal to merge with TikTok, in an arrangement that would give the U.S. government up to 50...

Trump administration reportedly negotiating an Oracle takeover of TikTok

The Trump administration is negotiating a deal that would see Oracle take over TikTok alongside new U.S. investors, according to a report in...

Ditching Meta? Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp fundraise on Kickstarter

The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to...