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TikTok Applies for Brazil Fintech Licenses and Rolls Out In-App Hotel Bookingfinance.yahoo.com
technology10 days ago

TikTok Applies for Brazil Fintech Licenses and Rolls Out In-App Hotel Booking

TikTok launched TikTok GO for U.S. hotel and activity bookings earlier this month and applied weeks ago to Brazil’s central bank for two financial licenses. The moves extend the platform’s expansion beyond video into commerce, payments, and local discovery.

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Tome Book-Tracking App to Shut Down on May 29fse.futurelicensing.com
technology33 days ago

Tome Book-Tracking App to Shut Down on May 29

Tome, a community app built on the BookTok phenomenon that served 100,000 readers, will close its app, website and servers on May 29. The company cited inability to reach the scale required to sustain costs of a social platform supporting memes, GIFs and video. TechCrunch reporte…

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Snapchat Introduces Place Loyalty Feature on Snap Map for Frequent VisitorsSubstrate placeholder — needs review
technology48 days ago

Snapchat Introduces Place Loyalty Feature on Snap Map for Frequent Visitors

Snapchat has launched a new Place Loyalty feature that ranks users based on visit frequency to locations over the past year. Users can earn badges and share rankings if they opt to share their location. The update builds on Snap Map's growth, which now exceeds 400 million monthly…

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