Donald Trump to again extend TikTok's reprieve from US banTrump, who issued similar delays in January and in April, has given TikTok an unexpected lifeline after its future in the United States app...
18 Jun, 2025, 07.54 AM IST
Explained: What will happen to TikTok?The ban is the end result of 2024 legislation passed on national security concerns that called for TikTok parent ByteDance to sell the popu...
19 Jan, 2025, 10.07 PM IST
EU opens investigation into TikTok over election interferenceThe European Commission launched an investigation into TikTok's potential role in election interference, particularly during Romania's rece...
17 Dec, 2024, 04.50 PM IST
TikTok curbs state-backed media amid foreign influence concernsTikTok on Thursday said it was putting restrictions on state-backed media to counter acts of foreign influence on the platform during an im...
24 May, 2024, 10.19 PM IST
TikTok tells advertisers: ‘We are not backing down’Sofia Hernandez, TikTok's global head of business marketing, declared that TikTok had gone from "being viral to vital" for businesses. The ...
04 May, 2024, 09.35 AM IST
Tech platforms make pitch for ad deals as TikTok is roiled by politicsTikTok is expected to generate $8.66 billion in U.S. ad revenue this year according to an estimate from research firm Emarketer. While it i...
04 May, 2024, 09.20 AM IST
More TikTok users turning to the app for news, Pew study showsNews organizations are competing with TikTok and other social media platforms for consumers' attention and advertisers' budgets, with many ...
16 Nov, 2023, 09.00 AM IST
TikTok promises to ramp up fight against disinformation in EUPresenting its progress report on what it did to live up to a beefed-up EU code of practice on disinformation in the past six months, TikTo...
09 Feb, 2023, 05.29 PM IST
TikTok to verify political accounts in US, ban campaign fundraisingThe move comes as TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, and other social media platforms are working to clamp down on political misinformatio...
21 Sep, 2022, 05.36 PM IST
View: What India can learn from Microsoft's potential TikTok dealThe purchase’s major benefit to Microsoft and the US public may be the ability of consumers to continue to use an innovative platform for f...
10 Aug, 2020, 09.42 AM IST
Microsoft expands TikTok takeover ambitions to entire global business, including India operationsMicrosoft on Sunday had said it was in negotiations with ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, to explore a purchase of the TikTok servic...
07 Aug, 2020, 10.20 AM IST
A TikTok-Microsoft deal may be the best and most elegant solution for all parties involvedIn this instance, though, Microsoft may be the best suitor. On the surface, it may seem strange to contemplate such a large deal in an envi...
01 Aug, 2020, 08.51 AM IST
Bharat shoots its Citizenship Act take on TikTokTikTok users posting these protest videos were not so long ago shooting videos of themselves dancing, cracking jokes and playing pranks. It...
25 Dec, 2019, 08.16 AM IST
Political parties plan to up TikTok presenceTikTok has 200 million users in India. Following a temporary ban by the Madras High Court earlier this year, and a week after it became ava...
03 Dec, 2019, 09.08 AM IST
TikTok is aiming at a bigger audience than U.S. SenatorsFor TikTok to be a true success, it needs to appeal to the likes of Nike, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s. Its advertising business is ready to ta...
20 Nov, 2019, 09.23 AM IST
The show may be short-lived for TikTokThe app amassed an estimated 177 million first-time users across the Apple App Store and Google Play for the third quarter ended September....
25 Oct, 2019, 09.06 AM IST
Social media code to prevent political misuse by this eveningThe code of ethics may see ‘terms of use’ including a commitment from users that they will not misuse the medium for political purposes or ...
20 Mar, 2019, 07.54 AM IST