Tag: TikToks

TikTok’s Origin Story: Court Files Show Role of GOP Megadonor Jeff Yass

TikTok’s Origin Story: Court Files Show Role of GOP Megadonor Jeff Yass

Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor J [...]
TikTok’s Security Threats Go Beyond the Scope of House Legislation

TikTok’s Security Threats Go Beyond the Scope of House Legislation

The risks have less to do with who owns the app than who writes the code and algorithms that make TikTok tick. www.nytimes.com [...]
TikTok’s U.S. Future Still in Limbo as Commerce Secretary Visits China

TikTok’s U.S. Future Still in Limbo as Commerce Secretary Visits China

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s visit to China is putting a spotlight on the future of TikTok in the United States, where criticism of the app and [...]
TikTok’s plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers

TikTok’s plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers

Another person familiar with the plans noted that TikTok was paying for the cost of sending influencers to D.C. It was not clear which influencers wo [...]
Inside TikTok’s battle to skirt bans and influence governments

Inside TikTok’s battle to skirt bans and influence governments

With the 2020 election approaching, the company seemed to want to hedge its bets on the outcome. CFIUS had reportedly begun an investigation into the [...]
Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok’s Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists

Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok’s Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists

The inquiry appears to be tied to an admission by the app’s owner, ByteDance, that employees had inappropriately obtained Americans’ data. The company [...]
TikTok’s Trump downside is now TikTok’s Biden downside

TikTok’s Trump downside is now TikTok’s Biden downside

It’s official: Biden has reversed Trump’s government order banning TikTok in the US, bringing to an in depth a interval of uncertainty over the [...]
TikTok’s Proposed Deal Seeks to Mollify U.S. and China

TikTok’s Proposed Deal Seeks to Mollify U.S. and China

WASHINGTON — After greater than six weeks, two White Home govt orders, new Chinese language laws and a number of bidders, a deal for the social med [...]
How TikTok’s Talks With Microsoft Turned Right into a Cleaning soap Opera

How TikTok’s Talks With Microsoft Turned Right into a Cleaning soap Opera

Even when one does happen, a TikTok sale — which has grow to be a referendum on the U.S.-China relationship — should be disrupted if Beijing or Mr. [...]
ByteDance Stated to Provide to Promote TikTok’s U.S. Operations

ByteDance Stated to Provide to Promote TikTok’s U.S. Operations

ByteDance, the Chinese language web large that owns TikTok, has supplied to promote the American operations of the favored video app as a technique [...]
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