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SynopsisThe revised catalogue, released on Thursday jointly by China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the Ministry of Science and Technology, added a total of 23 items subject to export restrictions while deleting four items prohibited from export, including microbial fertilizing and caffeine production technologies, CGTN reported.AFPBengaluru: Chinese Internet firm ByteDance…

The landlord of a couple whose bodies were found stuffed inside a suitcase on a Seattle beach has been arrested. Michael Dudley, was detained this week and held on a US$5 million bail, Seattle police told DailyMail.com Although the man has not been charged, he is in custody for the…

Australian internet executive Vanessa Pappas has been appointed to the top job at controversial viral platform TikTok on an interim basis after its current boss abruptly quit on Thursday.Ms Pappas, a former YouTube executive and previously TikTok's US general manager, will take the reins as the Chinese-owned platform contends with…

Walmart has teamed up with Microsoft in a joint bid to acquire TikTok, a surprise move that signals the retail giant’s desire to become a force in technology and media and reach younger shoppers.Walmart said in an emailed statement that the move could help grow its third-party online marketplace unit…

On Aug. 27, at 12: 14 PM, Beijing local time, Kevin Mayer sent out an all-staff internal letter and announced to resign as global COO of ByteDance. Six minutes after at 12:20 PM, Zhang Yiming followed up the email, claiming he “understands” Mayer’s decision, while appointing Vanessa Pappas, currently general…

(Source: Sina) On Monday, short video platform Triller announced a new strategic partnership with JioSaavn, a music streaming platform owned by Reliance Industries Limited owned by Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man. Triller, also a short video platform, is from the United States and has similar functions to TikTok’s overseas version. SEE ALSO:TikTok…

ByteDance backed TikTok has filed a lawsuit in federal court for the Central District of California against the Trump administration after the US President ordered a ban on the video-sharing app’s US operation if it does not find a US buyer within 90 days. TikTok lawyers said the company has “taken extraordinary…

TikTok’s and its parent company, ByteDance, has taken the Trump administration to court over their ban in the United States. The plaintiffs claim that the US government had imposed the rule onto TikTok with no factual grounds, and was instead done on an “anti-China political campaign”.    TikTok argues that “Independent national security and information security…

TikTok PHOTO:Lionel Bonaventure/Getty Images Video app TikTok on Monday said it had filed a lawsuit challenging the US government’s crackdown on the popular Chinese-owned platform, which Washington accuses of being a national security threat. As tensions soar between the world’s two biggest economies, President Donald Trump signed an executive order…

About 60 per cent of TikTok’s 26.5 million monthly active users in the United States are between the ages of 16 and 24, the company said last year. Photo: ReutersUS president’s executive order gave China’s ByteDance 90 days to divest popular video-sharing app’s US operations Meanwhile, some ByteDance investors are…