Last year, most lawmakers deemed the Chinese tech giant ByteDance a national security risk and banned its apps. Now, under a Trump reprieve, it’s shipping new apps anyway. In 2024, Congress passed a ...

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data potentially being accessed by the Chinese ...

NEW YORK, March 21 (Reuters) - White House-led talks on the future of TikTok are coalescing around a plan for the biggest non-Chinese investors in parent company ByteDance to up their stakes and ...

As TikTok heads to court on Monday to argue against a U.S. ban, parent company ByteDance’s newer social app, Lemon8, is once again surging to the top of the App Store in the U.S. The push is due, in ...

Does the Chinese government have officials inside TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, pulling the strings? And does the storing of data from the popular social media app outside of China protect ...

Despite its warnings over TikTok's potential national security risks and ties to the Chinese government, the U.S. still allowed the social media platform's parent company to claim nearly 1,000 ...

ByteDance is best known as the company behind the immensely popular TikTok app and its Chinese counterpart Douyin, but its ...

Before they started defending it, Donald Trump—the 2024 Republican presidential nominee—and other prominent voices on the right, such as smooth-talking tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, didn’t care ...

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is suing a former intern for $1.1 million in damages in an alleged AI breach. The former intern, Tian Keyu, allegedly sabotaged the company’s artificial ...

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a private global company founded by Chinese entrepreneurs. According to TikTok, about 60% of the parent company is owned by global institutional investors, 20% by the ...

TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance said Thursday that it has no plans to sell the social media platform, its first official response on the fraught issue since President Joe Biden signed a bill ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court holds the fate of many of the nation’s content creators in its hands. TikTok parent company ByteDance wants the court to halt a bipartisan law that would require the ...