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...

BYTEDANCE CRIES HARASSMENT OVER FROZEN BANK ACCOUNTS IN INDIA

HIGHLIGHTS

• Bank accounts of ByteDance India have been frozen.
• ByteDance was being investigated for alleged tax evasion-documents.

In an Indian court, Chinese company ByteDance recently claimed that Indian government's move regard...

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. ...

DESPITE US TIKTOK BAN, BYTEDANCE’S REVENUE DOUBLED TO $35 BILLION IN 2020

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• ByteDance was successful in growing its operating profit to roughly $7 billion last year, which is $4 billion lesser than what was achieved in 2019

• The former US President Donald Trump had signed an executive order on August 6, 2020 and forced its sale...

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...

U.S. DECIDES AGAINST EXTENDING TikTok DIVESTITURE DEADLINE

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• The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is engaging with ByteDance in order to complete the divestment and other steps to resolve the national security risks

• In the last week, CFIUS had granted an extension of one to ByteDance ...

ByteDance GETS SEVEN-DAY EXTENSION OF TikTok SALE ORDER

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• The Trump administration had previously granted a 15-day extension to ByteDance of this executive order issued in the month of August, which would have expired this Friday

• The U.S. President Donald Trump on August 14 had directed the Chinese company to...

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...

ByteDance ASKS FEDERAL APPEALS COURT TO VACATE TRUMP’S ORDER OF SELLING TikTok's U.S. BUSINESS

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• U.S. President Donald Trump had issued an executive order in August that required ByteDance to sell TikTok's U.S. business by November 12 if a 30-day extension by the CFIUS was not granted to it

• According to the reports, ByteDance has asked the fed...

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

Highlights

• 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...