The fallout from Canada’s ban on Chinese-owned TikTok on government-issued devices looks set to hurt the leaders of the country’s two main opposition parties, who have used the app more actively than the ruling Liberals to win over supporters. The leaders of the two biggest opposition parties – Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre and New […]
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The Biden administration approved more than $23 billion worth of licenses for companies to ship U.S. goods and technology to blacklisted Chinese companies in the first quarter of 2022, a Republican lawmaker said on Tuesday. The data comes amid growing pressure on the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden to further expand a broad crackdown […]
This week, TikTok gave journalists a tour of what it refers to as its Transparency and Accountability Center. As part of its effort to show authorities in the United States that it is ready to dialogue. Screens outlined how TikTok selects and suggests the short films on its app in an office park in this […]
The impact of social media platforms on the music industry has been a topic of much discussion over the past two years. While this is true, television shows and movies continue to be the main distribution channels for the music industry, with platforms like TikTok helping users (75 percent) discover new music and artists. Television […]
TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew on a visit to Brussels on Tuesday sought to reassure the European Union the app would respect the bloc’s increasingly stringent tech rules and commitments to privacy and child safety. The short-video app, which is owned by Chinese technology conglomerate ByteDance, has for the last three years worked to […]
Popular short-video app TikTok is offering to operate more of its business at arm’s length and subject it to outside scrutiny as it tries to convince the U.S. government to allow it to remain under the ownership of Chinese technology company ByteDance, according to people familiar with the matter. TikTok has been seeking to assure […]
In the age of social media, it is difficult to differentiate when an individual excessively shares on their social platforms. Yet sharing our personal information is not always within our control. The Forbes TikTok conflict started on October 20, 2022, when the leading business magazine published an article accusing TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, of taking […]
China’s ByteDance Ltd is in talks with music labels for expanding its music-streaming service globally to compete with industry leaders such as Spotify Technology SA, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The TikTok parent plans to eventually integrate music streaming within its short-video service and scale it to serve as a major platform for […]
The world’s most famous and beloved short-video application TikTok has been reportedly hacked with the hacker disclosing that an estimate of almost two billion users’ data being stolen, supported by the reveal of the source code. The alleged hack news started circulating on a popular hacking forum over the past few days, with hackers claiming […]
Stiff competition from TikTok and Apple Inc’s privacy changes will remain a cause for concern for Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc in the near term, Wall Street analysts said. At least 16 brokerages cut their price targets on Meta after the company reported its first-ever quarterly revenue drop on Wednesday, highlighting challenges faced by U.S. companies […]