China's Byte Dance admits to tracking journalists using TikTok data.

Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in an effort to identify the source of media leaks, the company admitted on Friday.

TikTok has gone to great lengths to persuade customers and governments in major m...

TikTok to have new features for teenagers

TIkTok is a social networking app used for sharing videos, by the Chinese company ByteDance. This app allows users to make short videos in various genres like dance, music, acting and education.

On Thursday, the company announced some changes in the app. TikTok has made certain changes ...

BILL THAT BANS US FEDERAL WORKERS FROM DOWNLOADING TikTok ON GOVT DEVICES PASSED BY COMMITTEE

Highlights

• Hawley who happens to be the sponsor of the bill called ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok “an immediate security threat”

• Similar measure was unanimously approved by the US Senate in the month of August last year

• The D...

SHOUZI CHEW: NEW CEO OF BYTEDANCE’S TIKTOK

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• Vanessa Pappas, the interim head of TikTok, will take over the new role as COO of the company

• Announcing the new leadership team, Yiming Zhang, founder and CEO of ByteDance said in a statement that "The leadership team of Shou and Vanessa sets the...

11 CHINESE TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES SUMMONED ON USE OF ‘DEEPFAKE’ TECHNOLOGIES

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• 11 Chinese technology companies summoned on use of ‘deepfake’ technologies.
• Alibaba Group, Tencent and ByteDance are among the companies summoned by Chinese regulators.
• Deepfakes are said to use artificial int...

CHINA’S BYTEDANCE WORKING ON CLUBHOUSE-LIKE APP FOR ITS OWN COUNTRY

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• China’s ByteDance working on Clubhouse-like app for its own country.
• Clubhouse was blocked in China in early February.
• Xiaomi Corp. is reworking its Mi Talk app into an invitation-only audio service.
• Club...

BYTEDANCE MAY SELL TIKTOK'S INDIA BUSINESS TO GLANCE

HIGHLIGHTS

• Last year the Indian Government banned TikTok in India.
• Bytedance is planning to sell India operations of TikTok to Glance.

Last year, the Indian Government banned many Chinese apps in India, including TikTok. Now Bytedanc...

BIG TECH NAMES TENCENT AND DOUYIN TAKE FIGHT INTO EACH OTHER’S CAMPS

• As China sharpens its claws on the country’s leading tech companies, two of the industry's biggest names in the business are indulging in a verbal backlash.
• Douyin — the Chinese version of short-content video app TikTok -— sued Tencent (TCEHY) on Tuesday. ...

U.S. GOVERNMENT APPEALS ORDER THAT BLOCKED TikTok RESTRICTIONS

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• The Trump administration said TikTok possesses threat to national security as it is likely to obtain personal data of U.S. users and provide it to Chinese government

• Previously a US District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington had issued an order blocking...

U.S. APPEALS COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS IN APPEAL CHALLENGING ORDER BLOCKING TikTok BAN

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• On September 27, US District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington blocked the US Commerce Department order hours before it was going to ban new downloads of Chinese-owned TikTok

• The appeals panel consists of Judges Robert Wilkins, Judith Rogers and Patrici...

ANOTHER U.S. JUDGE BLOCKS COMMERCE DEPARTMENT FROM IMPOSING RESTRICTIONS ON TikTok

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• A second US judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Commerce Depart from imposing restrictions on ByteDance-owned TikTok

• Talking about this decision given by judge Nichols, a TikTok spokesman said the company was pleased that...

TikTok EMPLOYEE WHO SUED US GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS HIS CASE

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• According to a filing dated November 13, submitted by Patrick Ryan, both the sides were in the favor of dismissing the case with prejudice

• ByteDance, which happens to be the parent company of TikTok has received an extension till November 27 of its dea...

TikTok AVERTS YET ANOTHER BAN IN THE U.S.

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• After this decision by the Pennsylvania judge, TikTok will still stay in the U.S. app stores and can be used by the Americans

• In order to  stop the app from being shut in the United States, three TikTok influencers in the country who are making mo...

END OF THE ROAD FOR TikTok, IF ORACLE DEAL NOT CLOSED WITH U.S. TERMS: STEVEN MNUCHIN

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• Mnuchin said all of the code will have to be in the United States. He further said that Oracle will be responsible for rebuilding the code, sanitizing the code, making sure it’s safe in their cloud, and whether it will satisfy all the US requirements

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US COURT TEMPORARILY BLOCKS TRUMP'S MOVE BANNING TikTok FROM APP STORES

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• As per the order issued by the Commerce Department, Google and Apple were asked to remove Tiktok owned by Chinese company ByteDance from their respective app stores

• The US district judge Carl Nichol granted a preliminary order to allow the app to remai...

TikTok's PARENT COMPANY ByteDance APPLIES FOR CHINESE TECH EXPORT LICENSE TO COMPLETE U.S. DEAL

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• ByteDance submitted an application to Beijing’s municipal commerce bureau and now is waiting for the approval

• While speaking to the reporters on Thursday, spokesman of Chinese commerce ministry Gao Feng said that the application from ByteDance ha...

TENCENT'S WeChat WITNESSES JUMP IN NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS BEFORE US BAN

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• The US Department of Commerce had issued an order asking Alphabet Inc’s Google and Apple Inc to take down WeChat for downloads, but this move was blocked by a US judge on Sunday

• According to data analytics firm Sensor Tower, WeChat was installed ...

ByteDance WILL HAVE NO OWNERSHIP IN TikTok GLOBAL: ORACLE

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• Oracle in its statement said upon creation of TikTok Global, Oracle/Walmart will make their investment and the TikTok Global shares will be distributed to their owners, Americans will be the majority and ByteDance will have no ownership in TikTok Global

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US PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE HAS GIVEN A GREEN SIGNAL TO TikTok-ORACLE DEAL

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• President Trump while speaking to the reporters said he has approved the deal in concept

• The US President said he has given the deal his blessing and if they get it done, that’s great, and if they don’t, that’s okay too

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US TO BAN TikTok AND WeChat FROM SUNDAY: OFFICIALS

Highlights

• After this ban, no American will be able to download these two apps developed by Chinese companies ByteDance and Tencent

• This ban announced on Friday will affect only new downloads and updates, while the existing users can continue using TikTok