TikTok

TikTok CEO Quits Amid Controversy
TikTok CEO Quits Amid Controversy
August 27, 2020  |  Personnel

After being on the job for just 90 days, TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer said he will quit as the popular short video sharing company gets...

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Two Big ByteDance Investors Reportedly Back Oracle’s Bid For TikTok
Two Big ByteDance Investors Reportedly Back Oracle’s Bid For TikTok
August 24, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Investment firms Sequoia Capital and General Atlantic, which are major investors in TikTok‘s parent ByteDance, are pushing the firm to sell TikTok’s U.S. arm to...

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TikTok Has 100M US Active Monthly Users
TikTok Has 100M US Active Monthly Users
August 24, 2020  |  Mobile Applications

TikTok, in its lawsuit challenging a ban by the President Donald Trump administration, revealed its monthly users have grown almost 800 percent since January 2018,...

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ByteDance Sues US Government Over Trump’s TikTok Ban
ByteDance Sues US Government Over Trump’s TikTok Ban
August 24, 2020  |  International

China-based ByteDance filed a lawsuit Monday (Aug. 24) to fight President Trump’s move to ban its video-sharing application, TikTok, CNBC reported. TikTok’s plans to sue had...

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Zuckerberg Warned Of Facebook Rival TikTok In Speech Last Fall
Zuckerberg Warned Of Facebook Rival TikTok In Speech Last Fall
August 23, 2020  |  Facebook

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg played a role in stoking fears about video-sharing app TikTok, a report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) says. Zuckerberg, in...

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TikTok Plans To Fight US Ban
TikTok Plans To Fight US Ban
August 23, 2020  |  Legal

Video-sharing app TikTok plans to fight back against the Trump administration’s attempt at a ban with a lawsuit, CNBC reports. The administration issued an executive...

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TikTok: ‘We’re Here To Stay Despite Trump Ban’
TikTok: ‘We’re Here To Stay Despite Trump Ban’
August 21, 2020  |  Mobile Applications

TikTok users who are worried that the lip-syncing and dancing video app will disappear in November can probably relax. Despite a threatened presidential ban and an executive...

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Millions Of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Profiles Left Exposed
Millions Of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Profiles Left Exposed
August 20, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

A database of some 235 million YouTube, Instagram and TikTok profiles that was held by a now-shuttered company called Deep Social was left exposed without...

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China Eyes Apple App Store Over TikTok Tit-For-Tat
China Eyes Apple App Store Over TikTok Tit-For-Tat
August 18, 2020  |  Apple

Mounting tensions between the U.S. and China have spurred fears from Apple that China could shut down the company’s App Store in the country, 9to5Mac...

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