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Addison Rae Easterling is a bad bleep. The 19-year-old TikTok star announced on Tuesday that she has partnered with incubator company Madeby Collective to launch her own makeup brand, ITEM Beauty. The line will launch with six products on August 11, including eyeshadow, brightening powder, brow definer, lip oil, a contour duo and mascara, with …
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Chinese state media branded the US a “rogue country” late Monday because of Washington’s approach to the popular, but controversial app TikTok, saying that a forced sale would amount to “an open robbery.” Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Chinese state mouthpiece Global Times, tweeted a screen grab of a news headline detailing President Trump’s stance regarding …
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President Trump on Monday said that popular social media platform TikTok will be “out of business” in the US if it doesn’t reach a deal to sell its American operations by mid-September. The president comments to the media confirmed a previous blog post from Microsoft — which is currently in discussions with Beijing-based TikTok parent …
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Microsoft said on Sunday they spoke with President Trump about acquiring trendy social app TikTok — and Trump gave its parent company ByteDance 45 days to strike a deal. The time frame agreed to by the president, which was confirmed by two sources to Reuters, aligns with Microsoft’s stated intentions of wrapping up talks with …
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Microsoft Corp. is exploring an acquisition of TikTok’s operations in the U.S., according to a people familiar with the matter. A deal would give the software company a popular social-media service and relieve U.S. government pressure on the Chinese owner of the video-sharing app. TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app that has been under scrutiny from …
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President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act as soon as Saturday to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the United States, NBC News reported. Trump made the comments while chatting with reporters on Air Force One during the flight back to Washington from Florida. “As far as TikTok is concerned we’re banning them …
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President Trump on Friday night said he intends to “ban” the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from operating in the U.S. “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. The president said he planned to take action against the social media platform as soon …
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Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, the immensely popular social media app focused on uplifting videos, in a move that could prevent the Trump administration from banning it from the US, according to reports. The Seattle tech giant founded by Bill Gates is in discussions to buy TikTok in a deal valued in the …
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That’s one way to send a message. A wife is going viral for recording herself putting middle finger figurines by her husband’s messes. “I bought these little middle finger figurines to put around the house when I see something I’m unhappy with,” TikTok user and restaurant owner Sandra Jeenie Kwon says to the camera, in …
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Instagram is looking to cherry-pick some of TikTok’s most popular users in a bid to build buzz for its new copycat app, a new report says. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing app has offered big-name creators hefty payments to ditch TikTok and join Reels, a short-form video service it plans to roll out next month, The Wall …
Addison Rae Easterling is a bad bleep. The 19-year-old TikTok star announced on Tuesday that she has partnered with incubator company Madeby Collective to launch her own makeup brand, ITEM Beauty. The line will launch with six products on August 11, including eyeshadow, brightening powder, brow definer, lip oil, a contour duo and mascara, with …
