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TikTok, US Lawmakers in War of Words as Bill to Ban App Gets Fuel

TikTok and US representatives took shots at each other over everything from whether a new bill calls for a ban…

3 weeks ago

ByteDance’s TikTok Faces Mega Fine Threat From EU Probe

The European Union has opened a formal investigation into the video-sharing platform over possible online content breaches

1 month ago

Tencent Leans on Old Foe ByteDance in Gaming Dominance Bid

Tencent hopes its mobile party game ‘DreamStar’ can take on NetEase’s ‘Eggy Party’ and is promoting it on ByteDance’s ad platform…

3 months ago

Nvidia May See $5 Billion Hit From Early China Chip Curbs – WSJ

Chinese tech giants, including Alibaba, ByteDance and Baidu, had placed orders worth billions for 2024 and Nvidia had planned to…

5 months ago

After Arm’s Bumper Launch, Who’s Next in SoftBank’s IPO Pipeline?

ByteDance and Flipkart are among the handful of names on the Japanese tech giant’s roster tipped to go public sometime…

6 months ago

TikTok Facing US Ban if Chinese Owners Don’t Sell Stakes

"If protecting national security is the objective, divestment doesn't solve the problem," a TikTok spokesperson said, responding to the US…

1 year ago

ByteDance Staff Read Reporters’ TikTok Data to Track Leaks

Four ByteDance employees, two in China and two in the US, involved in tracking foreign reporters and sources of company…

1 year ago

TikTok Employees Urged to Play Down Chinese Origins: Gizmodo

The firm seems to think its biggest public perception problem is that it's from China, according to the trove of…

2 years ago

TikTok Says Australian Data Can Be Accessed in China

TikTok said its staff in China were able to access Australian users' data but added that "our security teams minimise…

2 years ago

US Senators Demand Probe Over TikTok User Data

The call by Democratic senator Mark Warner and his Republican colleague Marco Rubio followed a Buzzfeed report saying TikTok staff…

2 years ago

US FCC Member Calls on Apple, Google to Dump TikTok App

Brendan Carr, the leading Republican Party member on the Federal Communications Commission, said TikTok collected sensitive data about US users that…

2 years ago

China Accessed Data of TikTok’s US Users – BuzzFeed

Leaked recordings revealed a person from TikTok’s Trust and Safety department as saying, ``Everything is seen in China,’’ Buzzfeed reported.

2 years ago