Kamala Harris is not yet the Democratic Party's candidate for president but her status online is already clear: she is a meme.
Elon Musk's X social media platform, TikTok owner ByteDance and Booking.com may meet EU criteria subjecting them to tough tech rules as so-called gatekeepers, the European Commission said late Friday, after notifications by the companies.
Snap and TikTok also were included.
BuzzFeed said on Monday media entrepreneur Byron Allen will take over as the digital media company's next CEO after he entered into a deal to buy a stake of about 52% in the digital media company for $120 million.
The Australian government will legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, in what it calls a world-leading package of measures that could become law late next year.
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has stepped down as chairman of the TikTok owner, after saying in May he would step down as CEO, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, in the latest shake up at the tech giant.
Chinese technology company ByteDance, the developer of TikTok, is in preliminary talks with banks for its largest offshore loan of about $20 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
A delegation to be led by Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng is due to kick off a new round of dialogue with the United States from September 14-17 in Madrid.
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, has earmarked over 150 billion yuan ($20.64 billion) in capital expenditure for this year, much of which will be centred on artificial intelligence, two people briefed on the matter said.
March 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is set to receive a roughly $10 billion fee from investors in the recently completed deal to take control of TikTok's U.S. business, the ...
TikTok is now majority-owned by a group of U.S.-backed investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX. The app's former owner, Chinese company ByteDance, retains a ...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday further extended a potential ban of TikTok until Dec. 16 amid news his administration reached the “framework” for a deal. In an executive order issued Tuesday, Trump ...
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China said on Wednesday that the Indian government's decision to keep a ban on 59 Chinese apps was a violation of the World Trade Organization's fair rules of business and would hurt Chinese firms.
China announced an initiative on Tuesday to establish global standards on data security, saying it wanted to promote multilateralism in the area at a time when "individual countries" were "bullying" others and "hunting" companies.
U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat who is active in artificial-intelligence issues, wrote to leading tech firms on Thursday to urge them to label AI-generated content and limit the spread of material aimed at misleading users.
Facebook's parent company said on Tuesday it had unblocked the hashtag for celebrity chef Nusret Gokce's nickname '#saltbae', having found the tag had been blocked globally days after a video was posted online of Gokce feeding a gold-encrusted steak to a senior Vietnamese Communist Party official in London.
Access to major social media and messaging platforms in Turkey has been restored a day after widespread restrictions were imposed, Netblocks, a global internet monitor, said on Monday.
Vietnam is preparing new rules requiring social media firms to take down content it deems illegal within 24 hours, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
European regulators have launched a series of antitrust, privacy and online safety investigations into major technology companies in recent years.
Ian Rogers used to be in charge of digital strategy for luxury fashion group LVMH. Now he has a new mission: to sprinkle some aspirational glitz on to French cryptocurrency company Ledger.
TrillerNet, the owner of short video app Triller, is preparing to file with U.S. regulators in July for a direct listing as it pivots from competing against larger rival TikTok to streaming live events, according to people familiar with the matter.
A video of people gathered for Pope Francis’ visit to East Timor in 2024 was shared with false captions saying that it showed ongoing protests in Turkey against President Tayyip Erdogan in March 2025.
Labubu dolls were flying off the shelves on a shopping livestream in London on Tuesday as Alibaba's AliExpress brought China's Singles' Day shopping frenzy to Britain, tapping into the worldwide craze for collectible Pop Mart toys.