The popular video-sharing app’s owner will be told to sell its stake in nine months or see it banned from the United States
TikTok and US representatives took shots at each other over everything from whether a new bill calls for a ban on the app to whether the ByteDance-backed firm should call on its users to push back against it
The European Union has opened a formal investigation into the video-sharing platform over possible online content breaches
Tencent hopes its mobile party game ‘DreamStar’ can take on NetEase’s ‘Eggy Party’ and is promoting it on ByteDance’s ad platform Pangolin
Chinese tech giants, including Alibaba, ByteDance and Baidu, had placed orders worth billions for 2024 and Nvidia had planned to deliver some of them by mid-November
ByteDance and Flipkart are among the handful of names on the Japanese tech giant’s roster tipped to go public sometime soon
"If protecting national security is the objective, divestment doesn't solve the problem," a TikTok spokesperson said, responding to the US threat
Four ByteDance employees, two in China and two in the US, involved in tracking foreign reporters and sources of company leaks, were fired for examining the journalists' IP addresses
The firm seems to think its biggest public perception problem is that it's from China, according to the trove of material accessed by Gizmodo
TikTok said its staff in China were able to access Australian users' data but added that "our security teams minimise the number of people who have access to data"
The call by Democratic senator Mark Warner and his Republican colleague Marco Rubio followed a Buzzfeed report saying TikTok staff in China could access private data of US users
Brendan Carr, the leading Republican Party member on the Federal Communications Commission, said TikTok collected sensitive data about US users that could be accessed in China