Following the brief ban of TikTok in the United States, the popular app is now available for direct download as an APK while it remains blocked from the Google Play Store. When TikTok was shut down in ...
WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump suggested China has approved a long-awaited deal for the sale of TikTok's U.S. operations to American investors following a Sept. 19 phone call with Chinese ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on “Face the Nation” on Sunday that China and the United States had reached “a final deal on TikTok,” but offered few details. By David McCabe President Trump and ...
ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. This restructuring aims to separate U.S. TikTok from its Chinese parent, ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The phenomenon of TikTok is extraordinary. A video-sharing app where American tweens went to lip-sync and dance ...
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The United States will have control over TikTok’s algorithm in the acquisition of the social media platform’s US operations, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Saturday. “We are 100% ...
TikTok said Thursday that it has established a new U.S. venture as part of an agreement to allow the popular social media platform to continue operating in the U.S. The deal brings to a close a ...
TikTok and Sundance Institute want to see more creators writing and producing microdramas and other short-form scripted series. They’re launching a microseries writing program through Sundance Collab, ...
U.S. lawmakers of both major parties voiced skepticism about a proposed deal between Oracle and China's Bytedance that appears to stop short of a full sale of Bytedance's popular social media app TikTok to a U.S. firm as demanded by President Donald Trump.
Head brain injury charity Headway has described as "beyond belief" a video posted by the Football Association apparently making fun of a player colliding with an advertising hoarding.
The Philippines' justice ministry has ordered law enforcers to investigate a post on the social media platform TikTok threatening to assassinate presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr., acting on a tip received by its cybercrime unit.
The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday that U.S. intelligence agencies need to do a better job in tracking Chinese advanced technology and other efforts across a variety of fields.
A video of two men asking a small child the whereabouts of her parents has been falsely claimed online to show an Israeli girl with her Palestinian kidnappers.
Romania faces a wave of online disinformation ahead of a presidential election runoff this month in which the hard-right looks poised for victory, election observers and analysts say.
Critics say the escalation fits into a broader effort by the state to police speech and codify conduct.
ByteDance will spend up to $3 billion to repurchase shares in a deal that values the Chinese unlisted owner of TikTok at around $300 billion, according to a company memo to investors seen by Reuters on Friday.
The CEOs of Meta , Alphabet , TikTok and Snap have been invited back to Capitol Hill to answer questions from U.S. lawmakers about children’s online safety, according to a Senate aide.
The Trump administration is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app's global operations, ...
If ByteDance had a tough 2021, the year ahead looks even more bleak. The TikTok parent grew annual sales 70% to $58 billion, Reuters reported , citing sources. Granted, that sounds impressive, but it’s slower than the triple digit pace in the previous year and comes mostly from its home market where the business is set for a tough 12 months or more.
Indian content-sharing platform ShareChat said it has raised $502 million in fresh funding from Tiger Global, Snap Inc and some existing investors such as Twitter Inc , valuing it at more than $2 billion.
In the battle for viewers, Paramount Skydance is targeting the smallest of screens - mobile phones.
TikTok, the pandemic and mobile data costs in India all helped draw people away from Facebook at an unprecedented rate last quarter. The big question is when will it be Instagram's turn?
Microsoft and Google will not challenge an EU law requiring them to make it easier for users to move between competing services such as social media platforms and internet browsers.
Social media platforms operating in Vietnam have removed more than 3,200 posts and videos that contained false information and violated the country's law in the first quarter, the information ministry said on Tuesday.
Chinese company ByteDance, which owns short-video company TikTok, on Thursday said it will launch a new music streaming service in Brazil and Indonesia, as it tries to become a player in that market.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill this week that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short video app, or face a ban, in the greatest threat to the app since the Trump administration.
Three guests at the White House's Pride party on Saturday have been banned from future events after going topless on the South Lawn, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday.
Apple has filed a legal case contesting decisions taken by the European Commission under its recently-introduced Digital Markets Act, according to a post shared by the Court of Justice of the European Union on X.
One of China’s biggest exports in 2023 will be its social e-commerce phenomenon. TikTok, YouTube and Amazon.com are among the companies rolling out features that blend online sharing and shopping. The latest craze also is destined to run into some limitations.