Chinese-owned video platform TikTok has sealed a deal to create a joint venture with American investors. The move allows the popular social app to dodge the threat of being banned in the US....
TikTok announced Thursday it has established a majority American-owned joint venture to operate its US business, allowing the company to avoid a ban over its Chinese ownership....
TikTok has officially launched a US joint venture tasked with “safeguarding the American content ecosystem”, with commercial activities such as e-commerce, advertising and marketing remaining under th...
Oracle's CTO Larry Ellison, TikTok's CEO Shou Chew, and Michael Dell. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images TikTok's owner has closed...
TikTok's CEO Shou Chew Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images TikTok has finalized a deal to keep its business operating in the US. The deal, a US joint venture, involves a new set of investo...
TikTok finally closed a deal meant to bring it into compliance with the law that should have banned it a year ago, and the lawmakers who passed that law still don't seem to know what's going on . The ...
TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January 22nd , ByteDance - TikTok's Chinese parent company - and a group of investors...
Just over a year after it briefly disappeared from app stores, TikTok in the US is now part of a new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC . With approval from both the US and China closing on the sch...
Arman Onal/Anadolu via Getty Images TikTok's algorithm was disrupted on Sunday as the company dealt with a data center outage. Users reported seeing a flurry of old videos in their feeds. Some wondere...
Video app launches US joint venture with American investors to enact deal criticised by China hawks...
California Governor Gavin Newsom has accused TikTok of suppressing content critical of President Donald Trump and has launched a review into whether the platform’s moderation practices violate state l...
If the partnership goes ahead, TCL will have input into the development of future Sony Bravia TV models. Sony has announced plans to spin off its TV hardware business , shifting it to a new joint vent...
The hacker used a flash loan to inflate prices on Makina’s USD-USDC liquidity pool, and then traded to make over $4 million....
Sony has announced that it's spinning off its home entertainment electronics business into a joint venture with rival TV maker TCL. The two companies plan to sign agreements by March 2026 that would g...
As we moved into the third day of the TikTokalypse, the app appears to have finally stabilized in the US, as we verified that it's possible to consistently publish new videos and even have other peopl...
Article URL: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/01/the-worlds-most-powerful-literary-critic-is-on-tiktok Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751231 Points: 11 # Comments:...
Washington’s compromise has stabilised one of Beijing’s most important technology companies...
Hi HN — I built Microwave, a native iOS app for browsing and posting short-form videos, similar to TikTok, but implemented as a pure client on top of Bluesky / AT Protocol. There’s no custom backend: ...
PineDrama/Kiichiro Sato/AP. TikTok has rolled out a new micro drama app in the US and Brazil called PineDrama. The app's feed looks a lot like TikTok's, but just contains videos from mini drama series...
TikTok has suffered from extensive problems on its first weekend after completing the sale of its US arm, though some issues appear to have spread globally. TikTok has yet to confirm any issues a day ...