Pakistan Court lifts ban on TikTok
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court on Friday withdrew its earlier decision to ban popular short video-sharing platform TikTok for spreading immorality in the country. The Sindh High Court (SHC) on June 28 had asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the telecom regulator, to suspend the Chinese app on the complaint by a citizen regarding “immorality and […]
TikTok starts banning accounts in Myanmar to curb misinformation
NEW DELHI: With the Myanmar military using TikTok to spread pro-government propaganda and threaten the protesters, the short video-sharing platform has started banning some accounts in the country in a bid to curb the spread of misinformation. The use of TikTok by government soldiers in the country gained traction even as Facebook in February announced […]
TikTok gets a breather till November 12 as judge halts Trump’s download ban
Washington: TikTok won a last-minute reprieve late Sunday as a US federal judge halted enforcement of a politically charged ban ordered by the Trump administration on downloads of the popular video app, hours before it was set to take effect. District Judge Carl Nichols issued a temporary injunction at the request of TikTok, which the […]
Let’s tie up for a suicide watch, TikTok writes to Facebook, Google, Snapchat, others
London: TikTok on Tuesday proposed an alliance with nine other social media platforms to work collectively and rapidly to remove suicide content, following an incident this month when a man killed himself on Facebook. The Chinese-owned app said it had set out its proposal in a letter to the chief executives of Facebook, Instagram, Google, […]
Trump against any Chinese control in TikTok, puts Oracle-Walmart deal in trouble
Washington: President Donald Trump on Monday threw into doubt a deal to restructure ownership of the popular video app TikTok, vowing to block any deal that allows its Chinese parent firm to retain any control. The comments raised fresh concerns over a weekend deal that appeared to avert a US-ordered ban of TikTok, which the […]
Trump gives his blessing to TikTok deal with Walmart, Oracle
Washington: President Donald Trump said Saturday he had approved a deal allowing Silicon Valley giant Oracle to become the data partner for TikTok to avert a shutdown of the massively popular Chinese-owned video app that Washington has called a security risk. The deal, announced by the companies, also includes Walmart as a commercial partner and […]
Trump not yet convinced about Oracle-TikTok deal, also admits US won’t get a cut
Washington: President Donald Trump said he expects to get a report Thursday about Oracle’s bid for the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok and admitted there is no legal path to letting the US Treasury get a cut of the deal — a proposition experts had criticised as unprecedented and possibly illegal. “I’m not prepared to sign […]
China’s ByteDance to place TikTok’s global headquarters in US to escape Trump ban
BEIJING: China’s ByteDance has decided to place the headquarters of its popular video platform app TikTok in the US in order to escape President Donald Trump’s ban, official media here reported on Wednesday. As per the plan presented to the US officials by ByteDance, TikTok will remain the majority shareholder of the new US-headquartered company, […]
Trump restates demand for cut from TikTok sale as September 15 deadline looms
San Francisco: President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his demand for a piece of the action from any sale of TikTok’s US operations for forcing such a deal. TikTok has been at the centre of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing, and Trump gave Americans a deadline to stop doing business with TikTok’s Chinese […]
Walmart joins Microsoft in bid to buy TikTok
San Francisco: US retail giant Walmart said Thursday it had teamed with Microsoft in a bid to buy Chinese-owned short-form video app TikTok. “We are confident that a Walmart and Microsoft partnership would meet both the expectations of US TikTok users while satisfying the concerns of US government regulators,” the retailer told AFP. It may […]
TikTok CEO resigns amid Trump pressure to sell short-video app
Hong Kong: TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigned Thursday amid US pressure for its Chinese owner to sell the popular video app, which the White House says is a security risk. In a letter to employees, Mayer said that his decision to leave comes after the “political environment has sharply changed.” His resignation comes after US […]
Trump wants a big cut from TikTok US’ sale for the treasury
Washington: President Donald Trump has demanded that the US treasury get a substantial chunk of the TikTok sale proceeds, as he set a September 15 as the deadline for the popular Chinese short video app to be out of business in the country unless it is bought by an American company. Trump was speaking to […]
Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok’s US business, say reports
New York: Amid reports that President Donald Trump will order China’s ByteDance to sell its hit video app TikTok’s US operations because of national-security concerns, Microsoft has emerged as a leading buyer. “We are looking at TikTok,” Trump told reporters Friday at the White House. “We may be banning TikTok.” Reports by Bloomberg News and […]
Pakistan says immoral content posted on TikTok, issues warning
Islamabad: Pakistan has issued a final warning to Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to clamp down on what it called “immoral, obscene and vulgar” content on the video-sharing platform. TikTok has become a global sensation with its 15 to 60-second video clips and is hugely popular among young Pakistanis, with some users building up millions […]
TikTok could pull out of Chinese ByteDance to avoid ban in US
TikTok could separate itself from Chinese company ByteDance to operate as an independent American firm to avoid being banned by the US government. TikTok has 40 million users in the US and after recently being banned in another large market, India, after border clashes between troops of Delhi and Beijing, the short-video sharing social media […]
Plea filed in Lahore HC seeking immediate ban on Tik Tok in Pakistan
LAHORE: A civil miscellaneous application has been filed in the Lahore High Court demanding an immediate ban on a famous mobile phone video application, TikTok. Advocate Nadeem Sarwar moved the application on behalf of a citizen who is a petitioner in the main petition pending with the court, The Dawn reported. The lawyer contended that […]
TikTok can be used to steal Intellectual Property, expect strong action: Trump aide
San Francisco: A top White House official said he expected President Trump to act firmly against the TikTok and WeChat social media apps, prompting an angry response from China on Monday. China dismissed White House trade advisor Peter Navarro’s comments as “ridiculous and narrow-minded”, and slammed the United States as “the world’s real hacker empire” […]
Could the TikTok gen save America? They pulled a fast one on Trump’s campaign
Oakland, California: Did teens, TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music troll the president of the United States? For more than a week before Donald Trump’s first campaign rally in three months on Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, these tech-savvy groups opposing the president mobilised to reserve tickets for an event they had no intention […]
TikTok And YouTube Stars In Bigg Boss 4?
The season four of the reality show Bigg Boss is expected to begin in August month. As there are high chance of shootings getting permit in June second week, the show makers are busy finalizing the contestants. But then here comes a twist in the tale. Initially the Bigg Boss producers approached many small time […]
TikTok now lets parents add their accounts with their kids
BEIJING: Short video-sharing platform TikTok has announced to introduce ‘Family Pairing’ which gives parents more control over their children, by linking their own account with their kids, with a caveat that children have to approve this. The move will give parents more control over the user activity of their kids as they can set controls […]