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Bigo Technology, a smaller rival of embattled Chinese appmaker ByteDance, is shifting servers from Hong Kong to Singapore, out of the reach of a new national security law at a time when it is seeking to emphasise independence from its Chinese parent. The move, which follows India's ban on the…

Photo: Denis Charlet, Getty Images President Donald Trump has given TikTok’s parent company, Bytedance, 90 days to find a buyer for the app’s U.S. operations, stating in an executive order on Friday that there’s “credible evidence” that the Chinese tech giant “might take action that threatens to impair the national…

Whenever one comes across TikTok, one has a moral imperative to share it. After all, if a teen uploads a Good Dance and it doesn’t get any likes, did it really happen? But recently, TikTok users on iPhone have noticed something’s changed about the way iMessage is showing the videos.Usually,…

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Ryan Beard was sitting in front of his keyboard, taking song requests on a live stream on the last Friday of July, when he saw a message from a viewer pop up in the chat: “tik tok is officially getting banned 😿” Beard, 22, has more than 1.8 million followers…

Nicole Girten and Henry Ren Medill News ServicePublished 5:00 AM EDT Aug 14, 2020Political content creators have not shied away from the social media app TikTok despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that could potentially ban the app. In fact, banning the app, some creators say, could have the unintended…

Updated / Tuesday, 11 Aug 2020 11:06 TikTok is already under investigation by EU and US authorities France's data privacy watchdog CNIL said that it has opened a preliminary investigation into Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok after it received a complaint. TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, is already under investigation over…

TikTok is planning to sue President Donald Trump’s Administration after he banned the service in the USA. According to NPR, TikTok will file a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Southern California, where its American operations are based, as early as Tuesday. NPR has learned that the lawsuit…

PARIS (Reuters) - France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Tuesday that it was making preliminary investigations into TikTok after it received a complaint in May against the Chinese-owned video-sharing app. FILE PHOTO: TikTok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken…

Updated / Monday, 10 Aug 2020 09:12 Microsoft is still being seen as the front-runner in bidding for the app's US operations. Twitter has approached TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to express interest in acquiring the US operations of the video-sharing app, according to reports. It comes as experts raised doubts over…