Here you will find all the articles with the tag: TikTok.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill requiring the Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance, to sell the app to a U.S.-approved buyer or risk a ban. President Biden has indicated that he will sign the bill to that effect. The Senate passed the proposal, formally known by the resounding name Protecting Am... Read more
2 days ago
TikTok finds itself once again in the crosshairs of the European Commission. The governing body is launching a formal investigation into the launch of TikTok Lite in France and Spain due to concerns about the 'Task and Reward Program' that is part of this app. This allows users to earn rewards by p... Read more
3 days ago
LinkedIn is testing a feed of short videos in its mobile app, Microsoft's business social media platform confirms to TechCrunch. The new feed should give LinkedIn the same video functionality as TikTok or Instagram. Austin Null, a media strategy specialist, discovered LinkedIn's new video functi... Read more
29 days ago
TikTok is promising to invest 12 billion euros in Europe over the next ten years. Datacenters in Ireland and Norway are set to house all the data of the company's Europe's 150 million users, while NCC Group has been brought in as an external authority to ensure the data's security. TikTok will i... Read more
5 months ago
Google Search executive Prabhakar Raghava is concerned about competition from Amazon and TikTok. The top executive said this during his testimony in the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) case against the tech giant. The Google Search executive says he is awake at night because of competition from... Read more
6 months ago
The European Commission is calling Meta, TikTok and YouTube to account over their measures against fake news about the conflict between Israel and Hamas. This is to check the social media platforms' compliance with the Digital Services Act. Responsible Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton... Read more
6 months ago
French lawmakers want to stop not just TikTok, but also its American cousins. This week POLITICO reports that "top members of France's National Assembly" have strongly encouraged fellow MPs to "limit" their use of social media apps and messaging services. The urging message was sent in what POLI... Read more
1 year ago
The Dutch State Secretary for Digitalization Alexandra van Huffelen has announced that spy-sensitive apps, such as TikTok, will soon no longer be allowed on the work phones of government officials. Until then, civil servants are discouraged from having such apps installed and used on mobile work de... Read more
1 year ago
The Chinese social media giant is attempting to head off a general ban threatened by both the EU and the US This week, TikTok announced a new European data security regime in an attempt to assuage security fears that have already led to limited bans on both sides of the Atlantic. The new reg... Read more
1 year ago
Chinese social media company TikTok could be banned from the European Union if it doesn't do more to comply with EU legislation before September, according to the top official overseeing the EU's internal market. Commissioner Thierry Breton warned TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew that the company needs t... Read more
1 year ago
