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Summary List PlacementInstagram is considering giving precious real estate on the app's navigation bar to Shopping and Reels, the feature made to rival TikTok. The company has started testing out a new layout for the app, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Wednesday on Twitter. All three options for the horizontal menu would include the addition of two new tabs that would either replace existing...

Summary List Placement TikTok is struggling to scrub its platform of video clips appearing to show a man dying by suicide. Clips from the video in question have been circulating on TikTok since Sunday night, after the video first appeared in a livestream on Facebook, TikTok said in a statement. Despite TikTok's efforts to remove uploads of the video, first reported on by The...

The parent company behind TikTok is in discussions with Microsoft and other US tech companies about acquiring the viral app's US operations. Mark Zuckerberg was asked at a recent Facebook all-hands meeting whether the company was interested in acquiring TikTok, BuzzFeed reports. Although Zuckerberg refused to comment on Facebook's business strategy, he did address Donald Trump's threatened ban of TikTok in the US. "It's...

On Wednesday, the CEOs of some of the biggest US tech companies testified in front of lawmakers about any potential antitrust violations, although many questions were off-topic. US Rep. Jim Jordan used his time to question Alphabet CEO Sundar Puchai about alleged anti-conservative bias in Google's practices, and continued to grill the CEO after his time had expired. Lawmakers quickly slammed Jordan for his...

Kanye West announced July 4 he intended to run for president, and confusion has since followed whether he actually intends to run or not. This week, West's campaign team filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and qualified to appear on the November presidential ballot in one state thus far: Oklahoma. West shared a doctored image on Twitter early Friday morning that showed his...

A mysterious invite-only app captured the attention of the tech industry on Twitter after a combination of three emoji —  👁👄👁 — flooded their feeds starting Thursday. The purpose of It Is What It Is — and whether it's even real — is unclear. Purported users have posted screenshots on Twitter, and more than 40 young tech employees have added the app's Twitter handle...

Quibi is reportedly considering laying off 10% of its more than 250 employees, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The bite-sized streaming platform had a much-hyped launch in April, but its downloads and user numbers have been lackluster in the months since. The Journal also reports that senior executives, including CEO Meg Whitman, are taking 10% pay cuts to offset Quibi's poor performance. Visit...

In a story Thursday from the Wall Street Journal, Amazon employees said they accessed data from third-party sellers to make competing products under the company's private labels. The data employees accessed reportedly allowed Amazon to single out which products had the best earning potential, how to price their private-label products, and what product features they should copy. Amazon has long insisted it doesn't use...

The demand for face masks and other preventive products have reached a fever pitch due to the coronavirus outbreak, and many are turning to e-commerce sites to make purchases. So many people are turning to Etsy that "face masks for germs" became one of the top searches, and more than 200 postings for face masks have sprung up in the past two days. Even...

Over the weekend, YouTuber Jake Paul launched an online platform designed to teach "young adults" practical skills outside of a typical education and how to monetize their creative pursuits. The launch event for the $20-a-month platform, called the Financial Freedom Movement, featured cannons shooting $1 dollar bills into the crowd and a meet-and-greet with Paul, who was reportedly "casually double-fisting different flavors of White...

Facebook is hiding like and reaction counts on its platform in a test starting Friday for a limited number of users in Australia, TechCrunch reported Thursday. The test is similar to one Facebook is conducting on its sister platform Instagram, where it rolled out over the summer to users in seven countries. Facebook's reasoning for removing likes is to emphasize the quality of content...

YouTubers took to social media this week to complain about recent notifications that their video channels would lose their verification checkmarks. Due to YouTube's new, stricter criteria around verification, creators with hundreds of thousands of subscribers — and even millions — are set to get unverified in October. On Friday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki wrote on Twitter that the company had "missed the mark," and...