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By Nate Raymond

A raft of major technology and media companies have signed an open letter accusing tech giants of failing to bring their businesses into full compliance with incoming European Union digital competition rules.

'The overarching theme was presented that the multiple headwinds for growth stocks over the past two years, namely valuation compression, downward earning revisions and a deceleration of growth, have reversed.'

Moneycontrol report. “Unfortunately, owing to local market conditions, we can no longer continue to serve users of Resso in India. We have therefore decided to shut down Resso and its associated operations on January 31.

ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok became the first app to surpass $10 billion in cumulative consumer spending, helping power mobile app sales to a new high in a year revenue from games was down, according to the latest annual report by data.ai. Video-streaming platforms like TikTok and Disney+ drove an 11% rise in consumer app sales in 2023, showing resilient demand while the games industry dealt with a double-digit sales decline in China that dragged global sales down 2%.

The innovative company OpenAI, which is responsible for the well known ChatGPT, is now in the preliminary phases of a potential game-changing fundraising round. Recent sources indicate that the corporation is now engaged in conversations to seek fresh money with a value of at least $100 billion. This represents a huge increase from the company's previous valuation of $90 billion which was disclosed. This monumental financial move, if successful, could elevate OpenAI to become the second-most valuable startup in the United States, trailing only behind Elon Musk's SpaceX, which is valued at $180 billion. Additionally, it would position OpenAI as the third most valuable privately-held company worldwide, behind ByteDance and SpaceX.

ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok aims to grow the size of its US ecommerce business tenfold to as much as $17.5 billion this year, according to people familiar with the matter, posing a bigger threat to Amazon.com Inc. The 2024 merchandise volume goal for the US version of TikTok Shop — which melds online entertainment with impulse buying — was discussed in internal meetings in recent weeks and may still change depending on how the business goes, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing private information.

BEIJING — It's been a tumultuous 12 months for Alibaba, casting doubt on the future of the tech giant just as artificial intelligence is taking off.

Tencent Holdings is relying on one-time bitter rival ByteDance to promote its most important video game release in years, in a sign of warming relations as well as intensifying competition as China's gaming industry returns to growth. Tencent released on Friday mobile party game "DreamStar" that it hopes to challenge «Eggy Party», a similar offering from NetEase which has become a surprise hit this year with 100 million monthly active users.

Investing.com — U.S. stock futures were little changed on Monday as investors geared up for the Federal Reserve's upcoming two-day policy meeting later this week.

Starbucks faces $11 billion value loss due to poor sales, boycotts Teamsters Union warned they will do a strike if UPS doesn't take action. "If UPS doesn't get its act together, they'll be on strike next. Our union will not hesitate to act, and we will not back down," said O'Brien.

Amazon.com Inc. is sharply cutting fees for merchants selling clothing priced below $20, a sign it’s hunkering down for a price war with Chinese fast-fashion upstart Shein. On Tuesday, Amazon announced it would reduce seller fees on clothing products priced below $15 to 5% beginning in January. The rates on clothing priced from $15 to $20 will drop to 10%. The commissions on both categories had previously been 17%.

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By Foo Yun Chee

stock positions occurred during Thursday's (November 30) trading session, where Alibaba's market value slipped below that of PDD. This is a significant turn for an industry Alibaba once dominated for over a decade. During Hong Kong intraday trading, Alibaba experienced a 1.4 percent decline, causing its market value to briefly fall to around $187 billion, momentarily placing it beneath US-listed PDD Holding's valuation of $188.3 billion, Bloomberg reported.

An Indiana county judge has dismissed a state lawsuit filed against TikTok that had accused the app of deceiving its users about the level of inappropriate content for children on its platform and the security of consumers’ personal information

Alibaba Group Holding is set to lose its position as China's most valuable e-commerce firm to eight-year-old upstart PDD, a watershed moment for an internet industry that Jack Ma's firm dominated for more than a decade. Alibaba slid as much as 1.4% in Hong Kong, putting its market value at about $187 billion and on track to close below US-listed PDD Holdings' $188.3 billion, according to Bloomberg calculations. PDD, the company best known for hit US shopping app Temu and domestic bargains trailblazer Pinduoduo, closed nearly 2% higher in New York on Wednesday. The once-inconceivable shift reflects the turmoil that engulfed Alibaba after Beijing in 2020 targeted the company and its once-outspoken co-founder, kicking off a sweeping crackdown on the powerful tech sector.

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TikTok owner ByteDance is slashing hundreds of jobs in its gaming unit, a source familiar with the matter told AFP on Monday. The move marks a retreat from the competitive video gaming sector. Nuverse, a video game publisher that is a subsidiary of Beijing-based ByteDance, is currently conducting a round of layoffs that will affect "several hundred people", said the source.

TikTok is trying to tap in to shoppers in the U.S. So-called social shopping is already a huge phenomenon in Asia. Success isn’t guaranteed—and politics could intervene.

TikTok maker ByteDance is set to internally announce on Monday the winding down of its Nuverse gaming brand and full retreat from mainstream video games, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Chinese technology firm has no plan to return to the $185 billion global video games market, said the people, who declined to be identified as the information is not public.