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Haystack provides Democrat & Republican streaming

Haystack News, the US ad-supported streaming service that connects viewers with local, national and global TV news, has announces pland for upcoming dedicated streaming channels for the Democratic National Convention (August 17th – 21st) and Republican National Convention (August 24th – 28th), as part of its ongoing Decision 2020 news programming. The streaming channels for […]

August 14, 2020

Twitter eyeing TikTok?

Twitter has reportedly approached ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, with regards to purchasing its US operations. Social media video-sharing app TikTok has been at the centre of debate recently. Last week US President Donald Trump ordered firms to stop doing business with the company within 45 days over security concerns. Microsoft is also front-runner […]

August 10, 2020

TikTok heads for TV  

TikTok has launched an app on the Amazon Fire TV platform, just as US President Donald Trump threatens a ban and while Microsoft negotiate to buy the company’s US operations. TikTok has until mid-September to conclude a deal to sell the app in the US to beat the ban, though an Executive Order is already […]

August 7, 2020

Microsoft still wants to buy TikTok US

Microsoft has confirmed that it is in advanced talks to purchase the US operations of Chinese-owned TikTok. A number of US politicians and regulators are concerned that the app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, poses a risk to national security because it could be used to collect Americans’ personal data.  Last week, President Donald Trump told reporters […]

August 3, 2020

China: Complicated but clear

Covid-19 is complicated. Only an idiot would expect governments and their institutions to get everything, or even most things, right first time. But there is a premium on clarity of approach, honesty about mistakes and a commitment to learn from them. If you live in a country where any of those things happen, lucky you. […]

June 23, 2020

FOX News Digital sees best ever May performance

FOX News Digital finished the month of May with its strongest performance of any other May on record, experiencing double-digit increases versus the prior year across several key performance indicators, including multiplatform views (a 17 per cent increase from May 2019) and multiplatform unique visitors (a 12 per cent increase from May 2019), according to […]

June 16, 2020