[ Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to challenge a potential TikTok ban Friday, as efforts to block the video app in the U.S. came closer to reality earlier this week. “I’m going to file a lawsuit challenging the TikTok ban on Constitutional grounds,” Kennedy wrote on social media platform X. “Don’t be … Read more
[ VIDEO-SHARING platform TikTok continues to be a growing phenomenon in Malaysia, but popularity brings not just adulation but also brickbats. Ever since going global in 2018, the platform owned by ByteDance Ltd has been the subject of scrutiny, especially by the US. A major reason for this apprehension is the fact that the Chinese … Read more
[ Steven Mnuchin, the former treasury secretary and film financier, says that he’s getting an investor group together to try to buy TikTok. His comments to CNBC follow the House of Representatives’ overwhelming passage of a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the popular app or face a ban on … Read more
[ Next, an array of sharing options pop up. You can choose the email option to send the file to yourself as an attachment, or upload it to a cloud service like Google Drive. To directly download the file, swipe to the end of the Share To options and tap More. There will be even … Read more
[ TikTok would face a ban in the United States unless it severs ties to ByteDance, its parent company that has long face scrutiny and criticism for its connections to the Chinese government, under new legislation proposed by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers. The bill, introduced today, would prevent app stores or web hosting … Read more
[ Tik Tok may be a major source of news for people under 30, but the ByteDance-owned social media platform has today been accused of living in the 1950s and worse when it comes to women in the workplace. The social media platform and its chairman Lidong Zhang has “a stereotypical view of the … Read more
[ Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) defended pressing TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew about potential ties to the Chinese Communist Party at a Senate hearing Wednesday. “Singapore, unfortunately, is one of the places in the world that has the highest degree of infiltration and influence by the Chinese Communist Party,” Cotton said on Fox News’s “The … Read more
[ Beijing-based ByteDance, which has been criticised in its home market for entering negotiations with American companies soon after US President Donald Trump ordered it to divest its operations in the US, emphasised on Monday that it will retain control over the new entity, TikTok Global. The Chinese entertainment giant said in a post on … Read more
[ The cases involve Alibaba’s past equity investments in major Chinese mall operator Intime, China Literature’s acquisition of film studio New Classics Media and SF Express-backed Shenzhen Hive Box’s acquisition of a smart locker rival in May. Although the companies failed to seek regulatory clearance, the deals were not deemed to be “excluding or restricting … Read more
[ “We expect short-form video to become a key topic of discussion in the entertainment sector given the huge user base, time spent, and monetisation potential,” said Thomas Chong, an analyst at brokerage Jefferies. The listings come as investors hunt for beneficiaries of retail’s shift online last year. Consumer brands turned en masse to influencers … Read more
