This week, in the wake of widespread confusion about Trump's tariffs on China, a certain kind of video started going viral on TikTok, and then on other corners of the internet. What is it? Why, it's ...
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 ...
Sept 25 (Reuters) - A group of three investors, including Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab and private-equity firm Silver Lake, will take a roughly 50% stake in TikTok U.S., a source familiar with 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 ...
Social media apps have long been accused of being harmful to children. Now those claims will come before a jury for the first time in a trial kicking off Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom. A key ...
The new Pew report also found that two-thirds of teens said they had used an A.I. chatbot. By Catherine Pearson Most American teenagers use YouTube and TikTok daily, according to a report released ...
You don’t need to be a tech mogul to watch “The Audacity,” the new AMC drama that tells the story of a Silicon Valley guru who must navigate his way around a consumer data scandal. But if you want to ...
Spotify Technology is mulling adding full-length music videos to its app, which could help the music streaming platform compete with TikTok and Alphabet Inc's YouTube, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Wednesday fired the head of the Central Asian nation's telecoms watchdog after he restricted access to popular social networks and websites such as Facebook and YouTube.
A French national who is known for mocking the Thai government was denied reentry to Thailand on Saturday for being "a danger to society," his lawyer said on Saturday.
NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino has been named chair of the board of YMU, a transatlantic talent management company whose clients include Simon Cowell and Paris Hilton.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it has warned two trade associations and 12 dieticians and online influencers about social media posts promoting the artificial sweetener aspartame or sugary products without disclosing that they had been paid.
A video purporting to show a wig flying off the head of former U.S. President Donald Trump is an altered version of a video uploaded by the White House in 2019 in which Trump’s hair stays in place.
French digital music company Believe on Wednesday said its majority shareholder Upbeat BidCo would file a buyout offer for all remaining shares in the firm to take it private, four years after its initial public offering.
The U.S. Department of Commerce is weighing an enforcement action against Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter.
Anza Zafran Utama, a nine-year-old boy in the Indonesian city of Bogor, is either a dinosaur or a shooter when he plays Roblox on his smartphone.
Frustrated by what they felt were misperceptions of people with disabilities, Logan Kelble began posting dance videos on TikTok and bold, colorful fashion and makeup looks on Instagram – often with their feeding tube on full display.
The U.S. Congress faces a tricky task this week as lawmakers try to use a $1.7 trillion government funding bill to also address other priorities, including tweaks to election rules, reforms to drug sentencing and a ban on TikTok from government-owned devices.
Twitter will comply with the European Union's sanctions on Russian state-affiliated media RT and Sputnik when the EU order takes effect, the social network said on Tuesday.
Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the Nordics, the justice ministers of the two countries said on Wednesday.
A new Chinese technology trinity is set to rise. Following in the footsteps of Baidu , Alibaba and Tencent are ByteDance, Ant and Didi Global . After a brutal year for the entire sector, the path back through new rules and a slowing economy looks tough, but Jack Ma’s financial services marketplace will lead the uphill march.
Footage of two unrelated events, showing a bird-shaped rocket flying out of a church and outdoor pyrotechnics at a music concert, have been clipped together and shared online alongside the false claim it shows the lighting of the Paris Olympics torch.
Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome said he was left with a "shredded elbow" after slamming into a car door that opened just as he was riding past.
Google on Thursday defeated a trademark lawsuit brought by a British short film company over YouTube's short video platform Shorts, with London's High Court ruling there was no risk of confusion for consumers.
Private equity powerhouse KKR & Co has raised over $11 billion after the first-close of its fourth Asia-focused fund, its Beijing-based managing director Chris Sun said Wednesday.
The moon is not a reflection of Earth, despite a viral TikTok clip circulating online. The moon is a satellite that rotates around the Earth, pulled in by gravity.
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by major social media companies to dismiss nationwide litigation accusing them of illegally enticing and then addicting millions of children to their platforms, damaging their mental health.