Bridgestone proclaims a tire plant closure; Persons are hawking TikTok-loaded telephones

Tire producer Bridgestone Americas is closing its LaVergne, Tennessee, truck and bus radial tire plant and shedding 700 staff there, the corporate introduced in a information launch.

Bridgestone mentioned the closure will assist the corporate “optimize its enterprise footprint” and “strengthen its competitiveness.”

As well as, Bridgestone introduced capability and workforce reductions at its Des Moines, Iowa, agriculture tire plant and extra workforce reductions in U.S. company, gross sales and operations. In Latin America, it plans reductions in workforce and manufacturing capability in Argentina and Brazil.

Persons are hawking TikTok-loaded telephones

Persons are itemizing telephones preloaded with TikTok for tens of hundreds of {dollars} on eBay, Fb market and different on-line storefronts — although it’s not clear if there are a lot of patrons at these costs.

TikTok was briefly unavailable to U.S. customers over the weekend, however as of Sunday anybody who had beforehand downloaded it has been in a position to make use of it. The app continues to be not obtainable for obtain on Apple and Google’s app shops, so anybody who didn’t assume to get TikTok earlier than Sunday is out of luck.

In consequence, some entrepreneurial spirits are promoting telephones and tablets which have TikTok — and different apps from its mother or father firm ByteDance, reminiscent of Lemon8 and video editor CapCut. On eBay, listings may very well be discovered for as a lot as $50,000 (or as little as $340) on Friday. Whereas it’s not clear what number of such telephones have offered, those promoting for tons of have obtained essentially the most bids.