by Adre's IT | 23 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, contact tracing, TikTok ban
Last week, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed a law that banned TikTok in the state. Now the company is hitting back with a lawsuit that aims to keep the app available to Montanans. In the complaint, TikTok argues that Montana’s ban violates the Constitution...
by Adre's IT | 15 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, contact tracing, gig workers
With a U.S. ban of TikTok looming, the company is introducing a new mental health awareness hub to allow users to learn about well-being topics, connect with advocates and support organizations that provide important resources. To access the new hub, users have to go...
by Adre's IT | 12 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Code Against COVID-19, contact tracing, Spotify, Unpluq
TikTok has upended how music is discovered, used and consumed these days; now, its long-term effort to build a business around that is getting a boost. The ByteDance-owned app today announced a search feature called “NewMusic,” which users can use to find...
by Adre's IT | 12 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, amad el-mohtar, bigolas dickolas, booktok, contact tracing, contacts tracing, max gladstone, this is how you lose the time war, Unpluq
Video game consultant Rami Ismail was a bit sleepy in an early morning meeting, until his client said something particularly strange: “I’m really just looking for a way to get my game its Bigolas Dickolas moment.†“I had to absolutely wake up very fast to...
by Adre's IT | 6 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, Apps, contact tracing
Amazon’s in-app TikTok-like shopping feed is now available to all customers in the United States, according to the company’s website. The feature rolled out to select U.S. customers in December after Amazon had been spotted experimenting with a TikTok-like...
by Adre's IT | 3 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, contact tracing, EC Greece
TikTok announced today that it’s opening its revamped creator fund, called the “Creativity Program Beta,” to all eligible creators in the United States. The company initially began testing the new program with select creators in February. TikTok says...
