The Chinese head of TikTok has defended plans to sell its US operations, describing a deal as the only way to prevent the app from being banned in the US. TikTok中国的CEO为出售其美国业务的计划进行了辩解,称出售app是防止其在美国被封杀的唯一途径。 In a letter to Chinese staff, Zhang Yiming...
The legislation signed by Biden gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, with a possible three-month extension if a sale is in progress. It would also keep ByteDance from controlling TikTok’s algorithm, which is credited with helping the app rocket in popularity. In his v...
“I understand that the role that I signed up for—including running TikTok globally—will look very different as a result of the U.S. administration’s action to push for a selloff of the U.S. business,” Mr. Mayer wrote. “I’ve always b...
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The bill requires that ByteDance should be stripped of TikTok in the next 165 days from the date of promulgation, otherwise TikTok will face a ban in the United States. If the bill is formally passed, ByteDance will be forced to sell TikTok, otherwise Apple, Google and other app stores wil...
States than sell the app if it exhausts all options to fight the legislation. ByteDance is very unlikely to sell TikTok as the algorithms the app relies on for its operations are considered core to ByteDance’s overall operation, according to the report. Bytedance didn’t comment on the ...
States than sell the app if it exhausts all options to fight the legislation. ByteDance is very unlikely to sell TikTok as the algorithms the app relies on for its operations are considered core to ByteDance’s overall operation, according to the report. Bytedance didn’t comment on the ...
TikTok and its corporate parent, ByteDance, filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday seeking to block a U.S. law mandating that the social media platform be sold to a company without ties to the Chinese Communist Party. President Biden signed a bipartisan bill orderingByteDance to sell TikTokt...
A deal to sell TikTok's US business, prompted by two executive orders issued by Trump in August, had already hit a roadblock because ofnew Chinese export regulationscoveringartificial intelligence. Beijing has also indicated itpreferred to see the short-form video app shutter its US operationsbecau...
The app’s lightning-quick rise to fame has us asking the question: What’s so special about it? To find out, we analyzed hundreds of popular TikTok videos by watching the first three seconds of each and recording tons of information about their “hooks.” Using this data, including specif...