US commerce secretary says Trump really likes TikTok, but app has to move to US ownershipU.S. President Donald Trump appreciates TikTok's communication with young Americans, but Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick emphasizes th...
27 Jul, 2025, 07.09 PM IST
US commerce secretary says Trump really likes TikTok, but app has to move to US ownershipU.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated that President Trump appreciates TikTok's communication with young Americans. However, the ad...
27 Jul, 2025, 07.07 PM IST
US Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTokThe U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law requiring TikTok to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or banned due to national security ...
18 Jan, 2025, 09.21 AM IST
TikTok says it will go dark on Sunday in US without Joe Biden’s assuranceThe Supreme Court upheld a law banning TikTok in the US over national security concerns unless its Chinese parent ByteDance sells it. Witho...
18 Jan, 2025, 08.19 AM IST
How a TikTok ban would work - and why user workarounds won'tTikTok might face a potential ban in the United States if the Supreme Court appears unlikely to block a law that requires TikTok to either ...
16 Jan, 2025, 05.02 PM IST
TikTok CEO expects to defeat US restrictions: 'We aren't going anywhere'TikTok CEO Chew optimistic in legal fight against Biden's TikTok ban. ByteDance has 270 days to sell U.S. assets. Concerns over Chinese own...
25 Apr, 2024, 11.49 AM IST
US ban on TikTok would rob Joe Biden, Democrats of 2024 election toolBiden's campaign got thousands of "likes" on Tuesday for a TikTok video skewering Republican rival Donald Trump about cutting Social Securi...
14 Mar, 2024, 03.18 PM IST
Members of Congress on TikTok defend app's reach to votersCriticism of TikTok reached a new level last week as CEO Shou Zi Chew testified for more than six hours at a contentious hearing in the Hou...
03 Apr, 2023, 04.14 PM IST
Pulling the plug on TikTok will be harder than it looksMaking TikTok safe from Chinese exploitation - as a tool for Chinese officials to surveil Americans' tastes and whereabouts, as an entry po...
22 Mar, 2023, 11.33 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: is TikTok staring at a potential ban in the US?Regulatory hurdles, breaches of users’ data privacy, and national security concerns are some of the key reasons why TikTok is facing the ir...
16 Mar, 2023, 04.43 PM IST
US House panel approves Bill giving Joe Biden power to ban TikTokLawmakers voted 24 to 16 to approve the measure to grant the administration new powers to ban the ByteDance-owned app - which is used by ov...
02 Mar, 2023, 10.08 AM IST
China says TikTok ban reflects US insecuritiesTikTok is used by two-thirds of American teens, but there's concern in Washington that China could use its legal and regulatory powers to o...
28 Feb, 2023, 04.19 PM IST
30 days to remove TikTok from federal devices, White House tells agenciesByteDance-owned TikTok has said the concerns are fueled by misinformation and denied using the app to spy on Americans. The action does not...
28 Feb, 2023, 10.54 AM IST
Why TikTok is seen as threat to US national securityTikTok -- like its rivals Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube -- thrives on data and there seems to be no limit to how much young users are wil...
21 Dec, 2022, 09.38 AM IST
Donald Trump’s TikTok ban leaves Apple, Google stuck in the middleTrump 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...
11 Sep, 2020, 05.39 PM IST
President Trump issues order that could see TikTok banned, if ByteDance doesn't sell in 45 daysThe app may be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party and the United States "must take aggressive actio...
07 Aug, 2020, 08.54 AM IST
TikTok’s huge data harvesting prompts security concernsTikTok starts collecting data the minute you download the app. It tracks the websites you’re browsing and how you type, down to keystroke r...
16 Jul, 2020, 08.57 AM IST