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    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
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      Accusations reflect apparent clash of working cultures between UK ecommerce team and Chinese parent ByteDance

    • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
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      Social media’s big bet: the shopping revolution will be livestreamed

      Internet platforms including TikTok, YouTube and Amazon say the future of retail is live ecommerce, but early experiments in the UK and the US suggest there’s still a long way to go

    • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
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      US inflation finally takes a breather

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      Food delivery group says customers have been reducing size of orders as a result of rising inflation

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      Ecommerce group expands home technology portfolio but acquisition likely to attract regulatory attention

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
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      Move comes after MPs and peers hit by sanctions from China raised concerns that Beijing used social media app as spyware

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      Legal battle to enforce $44bn sale has exacerbated tensions between leadership and staff

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      Chinese ecommerce giant fails to hit target of signing up 1mn local US businesses while dozens of staff leave New York office

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
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    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
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      Meta, TikTok and Twitter among groups to register for licences under which authorities can censor platforms

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
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      Online food delivery group warns of ‘more cautious outlook’ as consumers spend less on non-essential items

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
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      Law Commission warns current laws do not go far enough

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    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
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    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
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      TikTok executive to ‘step back’ following FT probe into aggressive work culture

      Joshua Ma will ‘take some time off’ after claims were brought to TikTok by the Financial Times

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
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      Chinese-owned social media group launches investigation into ‘toxic’ working practices at London offices

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