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Google to pull Instagram, TikTok clips, will show them under 'Short Videos'

Google’s decision to index social videos has been a long time coming.

12-yr-old London girl can sue TikTok for privacy breach, court grants anonymity

TikTok has come under increased scrutiny by several EU data watchdogs over children’s data.

U.S. government appeals judge's order blocking TikTok restrictions

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington issued an order after U.S. Judge Wendy Beetlestone in Pennsylvania in October blocked the sa...

TikTok India rival Mitron signs licensing deal with Zee Music

The Mitron-Zee Music deal will give short-video creators access to the music label's catalogue of Bollywood songs. Mitron is rapidly rampin...

TikTok ban not good for rivals, sets a precedent: Adam Mosseri

The head of the Facebook unit also said that governments should have a role in regulating content on the platforms while rejecting the cont...

Reddit to buy TikTok rival Dubsmash

TikTok's success has prompted several social media firms to add a short-video feature to their platforms. Snapchat rolled out "Spotlight" i...

Anybody can download and play PUBG despite ban; government says it's aware of breaches

Earlier, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had issued advisories to the effect that none of the banned Chinese...

India ban hits TikTok download numbers hard globally

However, the growth in downloads slowed to a measly 2% in September over the same month last year, according to the data shared by app anal...

Federal judge postpones Trump ban on popular app TikTok even as ByteDance rushes to talk deals

The ruling followed an emergency hearing Sunday morning in which lawyers for TikTok argued that the administration's app-store ban would in...

India to consider fresh responses from TikTok

India will consider fresh responses from TikTok if it seeks to re-engage with the government over its ban in the country, a senior official...

Donald Trump’s TikTok ban leaves Apple, Google stuck in the middle

Trump on Thursday said he wouldn’t extend a Sept. 20 deadline for a deal. But ByteDance Ltd., TikTok’s Chinese owner, may need more time to...

ByteDance in talks with US to avoid selling TikTok: Report

TikTok -- which has been downloaded 175 million times in the US and more than a billion times around the world -- has filed a lawsuit chall...

SoftBank is said to consider bid for TikTok in India

Over the past month, the Japanese conglomerate, which owns a stake in TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd., has held talks with the heads...

Change in TikTok's ownership may not be enough to lift ban in India

TikTok, which is owned by ByteDance, was one of 59 Chinese apps banned by the government because of national security issues, following bor...

View: Every cloud has a silver lining. So has TikTok for Indian cloud giants

Cloud architecture makes de facto franchising relatively simple. Indian local cloud giants could acquire de facto franchises of this kind w...

Trump sets September 15 deadline for TikTok sale or shutdown in US

President Donald Trump set a deadline for September 15th for Tik Tok, the popular Chinese-owned video app, to be sold to a U.S. company or ...