China says it won’t approve TikTok sale, calls it ‘extortion’
The September 20 deadline for a purported TikTok sale has already passed, but the parties involved have yet to settle terms on the deal. ByteDance and TikTok’s bidders Oracle…
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As the future of ByteDance’s TikTok ownership continues to get hammered out between tech and retail leviathans, investors and government officials, the video app today published its latest transparency report. Read More
Oracle is betting that by landing big cloud reference customers like TikTok and Zoom will be enough to get its infrastructure-as-a-service ambitions rolling. Read More
What a whirlwind of a Monday morning. Shortly after news broke that Microsoft is out of the picture in bidding for TikTok’s U.S. operations, and rumors began circulating that… Read More
The United States government will not extend the September 20 deadline for Beijing-based ByteDance to sell TikTok, President Donald Trump said on Thursday. Read More
Report: China would prefer TikTok shut down in the US before selling to Microsoft or Oracle
With the TikTok US ban deadline around the corner, things are heating up as the Chinese government has reportedly taken the stance that it would rather see…
As tensions between the U.S. and China heighten over data security issues, Beijing took a proactive step to unveil a “data security initiative” that it believes can… Read More
A social media analytics firm called Social Data exposed a database with information from nearly 235 million Instagram, TikTok, YouTube profiles (via The Next Web). Before Social Data took… Read More
Microsoft recently shared its efforts to acquire TikTok’s U.S. business in a public blog post. Then, President Trump officially confirmed the TikTok ban in the U.S. by September 15 if an… Read More
Snapchat will soon add support for TikTok-style music features, according to a new report from The Verge Snap will roll out these features to all English-language users later this… Read More