Alphabet Inc’s YouTube is rolling out its version of social media rival TikTok, a new short-form video service called Shorts, enabled within its video-sharing platform.

YouTube will first test the feature in India over the next few days and then expand to more countries in the coming months, it said in a blog post on Monday. 

YouTube’s new product, which will compete with Facebook Inc’s Reels and TikTok, will let users record short mobile-friendly vertical videos and then add special effects and soundtracks pulled from a music library.

The announcement also comes as Oracle Corp and China’s ByteDance team up to keep TikTok operating in the United States, beating Microsoft Corp in a deal structured as a partnership rather than an outright sale.

YouTube’s entry into the short-form video service space coincides with TikTok’s ban in one of its biggest market, India, following the country’s escalating tensions with China.

Source: Reuter

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Kevin Mayer has quit as CEO of TikTok as the Chinese-owned video sharing app faces enormous backlash from President Donald Trump.

"In recent weeks, as the political environment has sharply changed, I have done significant reflection on what the corporate structural changes will require, and what it means for the global role I signed up for," Mayer said in a memo to employees that was obtained by CNN Business. "Against this backdrop, and as we expect to reach a resolution very soon, it is with a heavy heart that I wanted to let you all know that I have decided to leave the company."

"We appreciate that the political dynamics of the last few months have significantly changed what the scope of Kevin's role would be going forward, and fully respect his decision," a TikTok spokesperson said in a statement.

TikTok hired Mayer, a former top Disney executive, less than four months ago. The move appeared to be designed to bolster the app's American credentials and improve its standing with US regulators.

Since then, though, it has come under fire from the US government, and Trump has threatened to ban the app.

source:cnn

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Tiktok, previously, has become one of the most used mobile applications where people make video contents and share it in social platforms. Nepalese have also been keen towards this application; recently, the usage of tiktok has increased by 25% in nepal and alongside several difficulties have also risen.

While users of other internet service providers are facing problems using the Tiktok app, the users of ClassicTech, as claimed by Classic Tech, are conveniently using the application without any technical difficulty or hindrance, even during the peak hours.

Classic Tech has collaborated with Akamai to connect the content bandwidth of tiktok in order to facilitate easy services to their customers. Its server can handle twice the traffic it has currently with ease.

Classic Tech believes that its technical team that works 24 hours will handle any kind of problems without causing inconvenience to the users. Also, they claim that the customers have never had any problem using tiktok before and still don't have any problem.

 

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Italy’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Apple, Google and Dropbox over their cloud storage services.

The competition and market authority said Monday it has opened a total of six investigations into Apple iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox’s online storage service in response to complaints about unfair commercial practices and violations of the country’s consumer rights directive. In one case, it’s also looking into “vexatious clauses” in a contract.

The regulator said it’s looking into whether the three companies either failed to, or did not adequately, indicate how users’ data would be collected and used for commercial purposes. It is also examining whether Dropbox failed to provide clear and accessible information on how users could get out of contracts or pursue out of court dispute settlements.

Apple, Google, and Dropbox did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Italian probe follows wider efforts by European Union regulators to clarify the fine print tech companies use in their terms and conditions of service so consumers can better understand how their information is being used. Facebook updated its terms of service last year to clarify how it makes money from user data in response to pressure from European regulators.

source:AP

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