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The U.S. Senate late on Wednesday passed by voice vote a bill to bar federal employees from using Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok on government-owned devices.
Spain has ordered prosecutors to investigate social media platforms X, Meta and TikTok for allegedly spreading AI-generated child sexual abuse material, as European regulators intensify scrutiny of big tech over harmful and illegal content.
The CEO of investment firm General Atlantic, a board member of TikTok's parent company, said on Thursday that he was optimistic that a deal to keep the short-video app operating in the United States would be agreed.
A celebrity-studded video app is fighting to contend in the public arena. After scrapping a $5 billion reverse merger last year, Triller plans to sell existing shares through a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange rather than new ones in a traditional initial public offering. Despite some heavyweight hype, the company looks like a lightweight.
TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, on Thursday signed binding agreements to hand control of the short video app's U.S. operations to a group of investors, including Oracle , in a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban and ending years of uncertainty.
U.S. President Joe Biden is close to issuing a new executive order targeting personal data collection by apps like Chinese-owned WeChat and TikTok, according to people familiar with the matter.
TikTok and Alphabet's YouTube have failed to set out meaningful steps to protect British children from harmful online content, media regulator Ofcom said on Thursday, citing data showing widespread exposure on their platforms.
A Malian woman who regularly posted videos on TikTok praising the army has been abducted by armed men and executed in a public square, state television and two local sources said.
TikTok's parent company ByteDance is offering to buy back shares at a higher valuation than six months ago as it launches a new share repurchase program for U.S. employees this week, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
The Irish Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed that TikTok can continue data transfers from the European Union to China during its appeal against a regulator's order to halt them over privacy concerns.
Omnia, a data center company owned by Brazilian investment firm Patria , said on Monday it has joined the project to develop a 50 billion real ($9.25 billion) data center in Brazil that is expected to have TikTok as its sole client.
Walmart on Friday denied a report from ABC News that it was considering joining a group of investors to buy short video app TikTok.
TikTok owner ByteDance saw its total revenue grow by 70% year on year to around $58 billion in 2021, according to two people familiar with the matter, slower growth than a year earlier as China tightens its regulation of big tech companies.
Walmart Inc is aggressively expanding its advertising business after years of stuttering progress, even as a proposed deal to buy a stake in video-sharing app TikTok remains stuck in limbo.
Pékin a déclaré lors d'une réunion de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) que les restrictions imposées par les États-Unis aux applications mobiles chinoises TikTok et WeChat violaient les règles de l'organisation internationale, a dit à Reuters un responsable sous couvert d'anonymat.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Monday the Trump administration received a proposal from Oracle Corp over the weekend to make Chinese-owned short video app TikTok a U.S.-headquartered company and will review the plan this week.
The influx of more than 700,000 new users has been driven by a looming U.S. ban on TikTok, used by 170 million Americans, on national security concerns.
TikTok said on Wednesday it is launching a product that well let advertisers place ads alongside content produced by premium publishers, half of the ad revenue from which will be shared with those publishers.
Mexico's powerful security cabinet is investigating the murder of a young beauty influencer killed as she livestreamed a video on TikTok, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday.
China could use social media app TikTok to influence the 2024 U.S. elections, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing on Tuesday.