Inside an African hotel where asylum seekers deported by the US are imprisonedAsylum seekers deported from the United States are being held against their will in Equatorial Guinea. The Trump administration struck a de...
28 May, 2026, 05.45 PM IST
'Not fond of Indians': Taiwan candidate Lee Hung-Yi's billboard banning turbaned man, upside-down Indian flag sparks concernTaiwan anti-India billboard: A political candidate in Taiwan Lee Hung-Yi has ignited a social media firestorm with a billboard opposing Ind...
25 May, 2026, 11.00 AM IST
What is 'Group 7' on TikTok? The viral trend taking over fill your pages explained and how you can be a part of itTikTok is buzzing with the 'Group 7' trend, initiated by singer Sophia James. She strategically posted seven videos to boost her new song, ...
21 Oct, 2025, 09.19 AM IST
ETtech Explainer | TikTok ban: how did this begin and what's next?TikTok US ban: In 2024, President Biden authorized a law mandating TikTok's ban unless its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sells it. The law, dr...
28 Jan, 2025, 05.16 PM IST
How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threatTikTok, a global social video app owned by China-based ByteDance, faces a potential ban in the US unless sold to a US owner. Concerns about...
18 Jan, 2025, 08.37 AM IST
TikTok to log off from US: all your questions answeredShort-video platform TikTok, which supports the weight of the creator economy in the US, may go offline in the country on Sunday when a fed...
15 Jan, 2025, 07.21 PM IST
How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threatTikTok's tumultuous journey includes growth from a teen app to a global trendsetter, facing national security concerns and ownership disput...
28 Apr, 2024, 05.06 PM IST
TikTok's CEO Shou Chew uses personal touch to address antisemitism concernsIn recent weeks, Chew, who lives in Singapore, has met in New York and on video calls with numerous prominent Jewish groups and leaders. Th...
01 Dec, 2023, 07.36 PM IST
Jewish celebrities and influencers confront TikTok executives in private callThe celebrities and creators described, sometimes with fiery rhetoric, how TikTok's tools did not prevent a flood of comments like "Hitler ...
17 Nov, 2023, 12.10 PM IST
TikTok tests 15-minute video uploads with select usersTikTok is testing a new feature that allows users to upload 15-minute long videos, in a move to compete with YouTube. Previously, the maxim...
24 Oct, 2023, 12.14 PM IST
Driver's licenses, addresses, photos: Inside how TikTok shares user dataTikTok has downplayed the access that its China-based workers have to US user data. In a congressional hearing in March, TikTok's CEO, Shou...
29 May, 2023, 09.12 AM IST
Driver's licenses, addresses, photos: Inside how TikTok shares user dataTikTok's China-based employees have access to U.S. user data on an internal platform called Lark, according to internal reports and former ...
25 May, 2023, 08.00 PM IST
In hundreds of TikTok videos, its users defend the appOther TikTok users shared video montages of the app's chief executive, Shou Chew, to the tune of pop songs and applied the "fancam" treatme...
30 Mar, 2023, 04.45 PM IST
Timeline: ByteDance founder who put TikTok on global map to quit as CEOZhang, 38, turned ByteDance into a social media powerhouse which has also had many brushes with global regulators
20 May, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
TikTok agrees to pay $92 million in privacy lawsuit in USIn 2019, TikTok settled a $1.1 million lawsuit over alleged children's privacy allegations.
26 Feb, 2021, 10.04 AM IST
TikTok tightens privacy policy for kids after US nudgeStarting Wednesday, the default privacy setting for TikTok users aged 13 to 15 will be private. That means only someone the user approves a...
13 Jan, 2021, 04.11 PM IST
China's ByteDance says TikTok will be its subsidiary under deal with Donald TrumpTrump signed an executive order on Aug. 14 giving ByteDance 90 days to sell TikTok, amid concerns that the personal data of as many as 100 ...
21 Sep, 2020, 12.10 PM IST