Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by dragonwriter on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:23PM (#23794609)

Isn't this a space (short social video sharing) that has been filled by a near infinite succession of short-lived dominant offerings and that's pretty much always ready for a new, slightly different flavor of season?

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by qppo on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:33PM (#23794730)

I think they all failed for the same reason, video is expensive and the markets can't pick a winner when the game can't be won without money.

But if the Chinese government wants to prop up TikTok and pick them as the winner, they can.

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by justicezyx on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:01PM (#23795042)

TikTok parent, ByteDance, already owns DouYin, which is the original APP that TikTok was based on, with significant ingestion from Musically. As a matter of fact, TikTok's previous CEO was Musical.ly's founding CEO.

Although it seems the online records are disappearing fast. I could not find a good source of the TikTok history and key figures any more...

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by rhizome on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:31PM (#23794710)

The space TikTok is occupying, for which video sharing is the vehicle: personal information.

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by stjohnswarts on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:04AM (#23799357)

I think it might be a smart move by facebook to buy something similar and put it under their umbrella of companies while TikTok fades. Clearly it can be popular with the crowd that they're losing in droves.

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