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Riverdale's leading ladies just made a TikTok account together, and they're already churning out some A+ content. While quarantining in Vancouver ahead of filming the fifth season of the show, Camila Mendes, Lili Reinhart, and Madelaine Petsch created a collective TikTok on Thursday to share how they've been staying busy.…

After weeks of threats, the president delivered an ultimatum to TikTok and its owner ByteDance: sell the app’s US operations to an American company or it would be banned. He gave the company little more than a month — until Sept. 15 — to find a buyer and figure out…

Courtesy of Loren Gray By Alex Blynn Before 18-year-old Loren Gray became known to the world as a leading voice among a generation of uber-famous teens who populate the massively popular social media platform TikTok, she was a small-town girl growing up outside of Philadelphia with a smartphone and a…

“A MAINSTREAM GIANT goes countercultural.” That is how the technology press described the decision in the early 2000s by IBM, then a paragon of corporate IT, to back Linux, an obscure operating system written by a ragtag collection of activist coders. In the event, the unnatural combination wound up being…

Microsoft earlier confirmed it's interested in acquiring the video app. Angela Lang/CNET Chinese tech giant ByteDance may be ready to give up its control of TikTok after all, with reports in recent days saying the social networking app's sale may be finalized soon.A deal for TikTok's US, New Zealand and…

TikTok’s high-profile search for a US buyer is hitting a roadblock after weeks of public negotiations and months of national security debates. A string of reports from Reuters, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal describes a growing stalemate over the algorithm behind TikTok’s For You page, arguably the most important…

TikTok is less than two weeks away from President Trump's deal-or-death deadline, but a transaction is feeling even further away than when he first made his threat.Driving the news: China's new tech export rules could prevent ByteDance from including TikTok's algorithm in its sale of TikTok, which is akin to…

He “was being maligned … and hated it,” said a knowledgeable insider Kevin Mayer’s sudden exit from TikTok last week after less than three months as CEO followed a culture clash with his Chinese-based bosses but, more importantly, a realization that the job could damage his reputation irreparably, three individuals…

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China found a way to insert itself right in the middle of a potential TikTok sale in the US, by making it hard for its parent ByteDance to sell the valuable technology integral to the company.On Friday (Aug. 28), China’s commerce ministry expanded its technology export controls (pdf, link in…