[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump said he would extend the June 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok, the short video app used by 170 million Americans, if no deal had been reached by then. “I would … I’d like to see it done,” Trump told the NBC News program […]
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[ad_1] A European Union privacy watchdog fined TikTok 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday after a four-year investigation found that the video sharing app’s data transfers to China put users at risk of spying, in breach of strict EU data privacy rules. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission also sanctioned TikTok for not being transparent with […]
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[ad_1] A deal to spin off the US assets of TikTok was put on hold after China indicated it would not approve the deal following President Donald Trump’s tariffs announcement this week, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Trump on Friday extended by 75 days a deadline for ByteDance to sell US assets […]
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[ad_1] In December 2022, at a New York Times summit, journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, “For the older folks here, who should we be following on TikTok?” The response: “Oh (laughs), please follow me! I only have 10,000 followers on TikTok.” The deal was indeed true. Mr. Chew did […]
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[ad_1] In this file photo illustration TikTok logo, is displayed on the screen of an iPhone on a U.S flag background in Arlington, Virginia. | Photo Credit: AFP TikTok was dismissive of reports that the Biden administration was calling for its Chinese owners to sell their stakes in the popular video-sharing app, saying such a […]
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[ad_1] Nigerian singer Chukwuka Ekweani, a.k.a. CKay. The Emo-Afrobeat artist gained worldwide recognition with his viral TikTok hit single, ‘Love Nwantiti’, which marked a pivotal moment for African pop music. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Nigerian singer Chukwuka Ekweani, a.k.a. CKay, captivated the audience at the Vh1 Supersonic Mainstage with his chart-topping hits in Bengaluru […]
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[ad_1] TikTok said it came up with the 60-minute threshold by consulting academic research and experts from the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital. | Photo Credit: Reuters TikTok said on Wednesday that every account held by a user under the age of 18 will have a default 60-minute daily screen time limit in […]
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[ad_1] Music is increasingly being fed to us, not so much with the classic grandeur that a highly-anticipated album comes with, but instead, the sometimes slow, sometimes sudden rise of the latest algorithmically-harmonised song Music is increasingly being fed to us, not so much with the classic grandeur that a highly-anticipated album comes with, but […]
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[ad_1] China’s ByteDance Ltd is in talks with music labels for expanding its music-streaming service globally to compete with industry leaders such as Spotify Technology SA, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The TikTok parent plans to eventually integrate music streaming within its short-video service and scale it to serve as a major platform […]
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[ad_1] The Biden administration and TikTok are working on an agreement that would let the video-sharing site keep operating in the US, but negotiations have stalled over concerns that the company’s Chinese ownership poses a national security threat, people with knowledge of the matter said. Once reached, the agreement would allow the platform to continue […]
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