The Chinese company is in talks with Walmart and Oracle on a deal, which would transfer ownership of its US operation to a new entity to comply with the Trump executive order. The US administration labeled TikTok a national security threat, claiming that it exposes personal data of American users …
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The decision was announced by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday. The watchdog said it had repeatedly urged the platform to moderate inappropriate content, yet TikTok failed to “fully comply”. The tech company has been repeatedly reported to the PTA by “different segments of society” for “immoral/indecent” videos shared …
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U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols issued a preliminary injunction, that would allow the popular app to still be on offer in Apple and Google stores, shortly before the ban was supposed to go into force on Sunday midnight. Earlier in the day, Nichols allowed a 90-minute hearing, where a lawyer …
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Trump’s comments came just one day before a deadline he had set for TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, to sell US operations of the social media platform or be shut down in the country. TikTok reportedly filed a lawsuit Friday, asking a judge to block the US ban. The Department of …
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TikTok and the owner of the platform, ByteDance, asked a judge in a Washington federal court to block the Trump administration’s moves barring the app from operating in the US, Bloomberg cited the suit as saying. The complaint was filed on Friday night, shortly after the Department of Commerce announced …
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The US will not force current American users to stop using the apps, but would instead prevent them from installing updates, Reuters reported. Washington will also order Apple, Google and other firms to make the apps unavailable on their platforms within the United States. However, the commerce department will not …
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China’s ByteDance informed the suitor on Sunday that it won’t be selling the business to Microsoft. The impasse may give the upper hand to Oracle, another US technology firm that has reportedly been in talks with Beijing-based ByteDance. Shortly after the news broke, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal reported …
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The original deadline for the sale will not budge, Trump told reporters on Thursday. That means TikTok’s Beijing-based owner, ByteDance, has less than a week to strike a deal, facing a sweeping ban in the US should it miss the cut-off date of September 15. “We’ll see what happens. It’ll …
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As Poarch was performing a dance number to her audience of millions, she briefly revealed her arm tattoo, which started the whole thing rolling. The tattoo turned out to be the ‘Rising Sun’ Imperial Japanese flag. Apparently unbeknownst to the young internet sensation, the image of a red sunburst with …
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His decision to leave the company comes days after TikTok filed suit against the Trump administration over an executive order that prevents the video-sharing app from making business transactions in the United States. General Manager Venessa Pappas will become interim CEO of the firm, according to a memo seen by …
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