TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020

ByteDance, the Chinese company behind the smash-hit video app TikTok, saw its earnings double last year. An internal memo released to staff showed that the firm’s total revenue jumped by 111% to $34.3bn (£24.7bn) for 2020. The figures underscore TikTok’s continued global popularity. It comes as ByteDance and several other Chinese technology giants have come…

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Google’s Gmail gets new collaboration tools in major redesign

Google on Monday announced a major Gmail redesign with a slew of new productivity tools that’ll work across the company’s other apps, like Docs and Sheets, aiming to turn the service into a hub for planning projects and collaborating with other people. The idea is to bring Google’s separate productivity apps all to one place,…

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