TikTok’s long-awaited U.S. sale closed just last week. And the new American entity is already operating differently. The Culver City, California-based social media platform, which is now owned by ...
Beijing-based ByteDance launched the international version of its short video app in 2017. TikTok soon became a global hit thanks to its advanced algorithm. This success, however, drew the attention ...
TikTok may finally have a deal to keep it up and running for good on Americans' smartphones. ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese owner, stated on Thursday, Dec. 18, that it had signed agreements giving ...
After months of speculation and multiple bids from would-be American buyers, TikTok may finally be getting a new owner. President Donald Trump teased over the weekend that there is a buyer for TikTok, ...
In ruling Friday on the future of the social-media app TikTok, the Supreme Court understood it was dealing with a novel issue. “We are conscious that the cases before us involve new technologies with ...
The European Commission and Coimisiún na Meán have said they are aware of the issues linked to the trend known as 'SkinnyTok', the social media hashtag which promotes often dangerous advice to make ...
The station debuts Friday, March 13, live from the iHeartPodcast Hotel at SXSW Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty In a press release, TikTok announced the launch of TikTok Radio The new ...
The federal government said on Monday that it will let TikTok continue to operate in Canada and allow an investment by the tech platform to proceed, after a national security review reversed the ...
TikTok, which is under new ownership in the U.S., said Sunday that it has restored service after outages last week that marred user experiences. The social network has over 220 million users in the ...
Chinese video app TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, will be joining the European Union's voluntary code of conduct to combat illegal hate speech online, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday that declares a deal being negotiated by the White House to sell TikTok's U.S. operations will meet requirements set out in a 2024 law, a White House source with knowledge of the matter said.
Albania's Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the government's one-year ban of TikTok, which expired last month, was unconstitutional and violated freedom of speech.
A judge will hold a hearing on Sunday on whether to allow a Commerce Department ban on new TikTok downloads from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc Google app stores from taking effect.
The details about the ownership structure under discussion may raise questions in Congress and among critics.
Singapore has ordered TikTok and Meta to block access in Singapore to the accounts of an Australian man authorities say has contributed to the radicalisation of two of its citizens, the ministry of home affairs said on Tuesday.
The Israeli military says its air strikes have destroyed the bulk of Syria’s strategic weapons stockpiles.
Trump extended a deadline for ByteDance to sell U.S. assets to a non-Chinese buyer.
Italy's data protection regulator said on Wednesday it had asked video-sharing app TikTok to strengthen measures to prevent young users from accessing the platform after the group removed more than 500,000 users under the age of 13 in almost three months.
A U.S. judge said on Wednesday he was uncertain if he had a legal basis to bar the U.S. Commerce Department from imposing restrictions on video-sharing app TikTok after a Pennsylvania judge had already blocked the government's plan on Friday.
Video-sharing app TikTok said on Tuesday it is giving parents more control options, including the ability to monitor what their teenagers can view on the platform.
The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, taking advantage of the short video app's more than 170 million U.S. users to spread the messages of President Donald Trump.
TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, on Thursday said it has finalized a deal to establish a majority American-owned joint venture that will secure U.S. data, to avoid a U.S. ban on the short video app used by over 200 million Americans.
Close to half of American adults support a ban on the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey that also asked questions about national security concerns and China.
New Jersey and Ohio said on Monday they were joining other states in banning use of the popular video app TikTok on government-owned and managed devices.
Social media platform TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees from its global workforce, including a large number of staff in Malaysia, the company said on Friday, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation.
TikTok plans to launch a program in August to help Chinese merchants sell goods globally, and will officially roll it out first to consumers in the United States, a person familiar with the matter said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he wants the government to open an account on TikTok, with concerns about the far right AfD's strong social media presence seemingly trumping security worries about the Chinese-owned platform.
Australia has not received advice from its security agencies to follow the example of the United States, the European Parliament and Canada to ban Chinese video-sharing app TikTok from government devices, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Wednesday.
Romania has not announced a TikTok ban as of March 19, contrary to online posts that the deputy head of Romania’s telecoms regulator says have misused an appeal made by him in November.