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Music industry girds for looming US TikTok ban
Music industry girds for looming US TikTok ban
Economy
by  AFP

TikTok has dramatically changed music discovery and marketing -- a reliance the looming US ban on the popular app has underscored as the music world braces for an unknown future. And Americans are already trying new alternatives, like China's popular viral video app RedNote.

EU's ex-tech chief joins Bank of America as advisor
EU's ex-tech chief joins Bank of America as advisor
Economy
by  AFP

The EU's influential former tech enforcer Thierry Breton will join Bank of America's advisory council, he told AFP on Thursday, a move denounced by one lawmaker as flouting a lobbying ban. Breton confirmed to AFP that he would be a member of the global advisory council, a role he held before joining the commission, from 2013 to 2019.