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...In 2020, Instagram introduced “reels”, a feature that allowed users to share short clips, cloning the TikTok’s viral video features that had hooked millions of Gen Z consumers....
...TikTok has hit $16bn in sales in the US, where the viral video app that has hooked Gen Z users is at risk of being banned.Three people with knowledge of its finances said the app, owned by Beijing-based...
...Much of the activity has been driven by retail traders who got hooked on the stock market during the 2021 meme stock craze, when buying by small investors sent retailer GameStop skyrocketing....
...Users quickly get hooked on buying items directly in the app. This pushed TikTok Shop’s estimated Southeast Asian gross merchandise value to $4.4bn last year....
...Carriers big and small are hooked into the same system....
...That has been a key factor in keeping its viewers hooked. Applying this algorithm to shopping preferences should come in useful by suggesting relevant items to shoppers....
...Surely the hunt to get young users hooked on a platform as soon as possible, as part of running a profitable business, is at odds with caring for their wellbeing?...
...He was hooked. Dylan’s bets quickly became riskier....
...Warning: extensive spoilers It was the romance, in the end, that hooked me....
...But for now the Marlboro maker remains firmly hooked on cigarettes, which are the leading cause of preventable death globally....
...As it is, The Playlist falls into a slightly sedate rhythm that’s hard to get hooked on. ★★★☆☆ On Netflix now Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Yet what keeps more than a billion users like me hooked is that TikTok also drops in random videos now and again instead of boring users by showing the same sort of content....
...Douglas Westwood, one of the parents bringing the lawsuit, says his daughter got hooked on Instagram within months of receiving her first smartphone, for safety purposes, at nine years old....
...He was hooked. His passion for this most revered of materials was a means of immersing himself in the vast sweep of Chinese history....
...There are 1.4bn Chinese to get hooked on coffee; yes, I’m even counting the Uyghurs. But as usual I have bigger ambitions....
...The online property company’s app hooked American users who scrolled through endless home listings. Three years ago it opened a new door, effectively becoming a hedge fund that traded houses....
...Are you hooked like me on working out the daily 5-letter word posted by Wordle? Janine Gibson has thoughts on its popularity and its inevitable imitators....
...I was hooked. New Order’s lyrics were often oblique: “Every time I see you falling, I get down on my knees and pray / waiting for the final moment, you say the words that I can’t say”. Who is the you?...
...Grid, like its peers Gore Street and Harmony, invests in alternative infrastructure projects, in this case containers full of lithium-ion batteries hooked up to the National Grid....
...By then, though, Foley and his wife Jill had become hooked on the boutique fitness classes that were exploding in America’s coastal cities....
...Europeans and Australians are equally hooked on the instant gratification BNPL offers. Which?, a UK consumer group, estimates a third of British shoppers have used the payment model....
...they will need to master new forms of interactive entertainment — whether in video games, sports betting or the more social and communications-based services that thrive on smartphones — to keep audiences hooked...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 11 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Aside from some basic economics he did no business studies until his senior year, when on a whim he signed up for some graduate classes in real estate and got hooked....
...Netflix had promised that as it hooked more customers and raised subscription prices, it would eventually no longer need raise junk debt to fuel its content spending....
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