U.S. Ban of TikTok Is Set to Deal a Major Blow to ByteDance, Its Chinese Owner
While TikTok remains hugely popular in Brazil, Indonesia and other markets, its 170 million users in the United States are ...
Looming TikTok ban poses financial nightmare for Google, Apple — and other American tech firms with ties to China’s ByteDance
A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple ...
How to use TikTok after the ban: Do VPNs and other workarounds work?
Questions loom over TikTok's future after a U.S. ban went into effect Saturday. Do workarounds like VPNs work? Will it come ...
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Meet Shou Zi Chew, the CEO leading TikTok as it fights a US ban
Facebook went public in mid-2012 ... Chew was CFO of Xiaomi before joining Bytedance. He became chief financial officer of the Chinese smartphone giant, which competes with Apple, in 2015.
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TikTok owner ByteDance powered an e-reader’s unhinged AI assistant
A large language model (LLM) made by TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was used by an e-reader called Boox, according to screenshots about the AI shared on Reddit. When asked questions about ...
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Social media app Lemon8 is gaining popularity but could face ban with TikTok
The threat of the TikTok ban stems from a law signed last year by President Biden that seeks to ban the popular platform in the U.S. on Jan. 19 if ByteDance does not perform a divestment.