TikTok, the popular social video app, has been a global trendsetter since merging with Musical.ly in 2017. However, concerns about its ties to China and potential national security threats have led to calls for its sale to a U.S. owner or…
This week's headlines included a look at what to expect at Google I/O regarding Wear OS, the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses getting even smarter, and the U.S. signing the new TikTok ban into law.
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering this week’s noteworthy happenings in tech. TikTok’s fate in the U.S. looks uncertain after President Joe Biden signed a bill that included a deadline for…
President Joe Biden signed a bill on Wednesday that could ban TikTok – for real this time. After so many false starts and stops, some creator economy founders and their clients are rolling their eyes. They’ve been through this before. “I…
A bipartisan effort in US Congress successfully passed a bill requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance, within nine months to a year. The bill was part of a $95 billion foreign-aid package and contained a…
It has been rumored that the United States would ban TikTok because it was owned by the Chines government and could pose a security risk to our informaiton. But will it really ever happen? Continue reading…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard lost a significant amount of money from her TikTok account. Several thousand dollars ended up in her estranged husband's possession after she deleted her account.
SAN FRANCISCO — If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has, at least if you’re measuring via internet time. What’s now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so, in what form?
Elias Giangrande, 28, and Jack Niehaus, 25, died instantly when they collided with a minivan taxi after leaving the famous Full Moon Party on Wednesday while on holiday with Daniel Mac.
The attack took place on Friday in the Zayne neighbourhood and Iraq's interior ministry has since confirmed the news, adding that "unknown assailants" were to blame.
It has been rumored that the United States would ban TikTok because it was owned by the Chines government and could pose a security risk to our informaiton. But will it really ever happen? Continue reading…
The TikTok account is run by LeftVoice, a "revolutionary socialist news site and magazine" that is part of a "Trotskyist news network" that operates across 14 countries.