TikTok is rolling out 'TikTok Library', a new in-app creation tool with content from GIPHY, unlocking a new category of entertainment content, making it easy for people to start or participate in their own trend
VOXI has added video-sharing and entertainment platform TikTok to its Endless Video plans, meaning new and existing customers can now get their hands on unlimited data to stream TikTok, YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, My5, TVPlayer and UKTV Play – from just £15 a month.
OK COOL, a creative studio specialising in social, has launched OK COOL TikTok Studio, a full-service creative suite, with an innovative 360 TikTok offering
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Samsung and TikTok are bringing TikTok’s trending content exclusively to Samsung Smart TVs in Europe, launching first for UK customers today.
Pakistan is the latest country to jump on the "Let's ban TikTok" bandwagon, banning TikTok for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content, the country’s telecommunications authority said.
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TikTok says that a video of a man committing suicide that circulated on its platform was deliberately spread by a group of users working together. The company found evidence of a “coordinated attack" when it investigated why the video was suddenly appearing on the video sharing app, a TikTok executive told a British parliamentary committee Tuesday.
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O2 has marked the arrival of its new brand platform, Bubl, by taking the robot to TikTok. In the first ever robot dance on TikTok, O2 launched the O2BublDance Duet Competition on Thursday 17th September to showcase how O2 is there to help you whenever – even when its learning the latest dance routine.
Oracle and Walmart have agreed to acquire a 20% stake in TikTok’s global business as part of a pre-IPO financing round. Oracle will be owning about a 12.5 percent stake in the company while Walmart CEO Doug McMillon will join the company’s board.
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Friday morning that downloads of video app TikTok and messaging app WeChat will be banned in the U.S. from Sunday (Sept 20). If a deal is not struck by 12 November, the app will be fully banned, and using as well as downloading the app will be illegal.
TikTok owner Bytedance has chosen Oracle as the technology partner to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations, following Microsoft's statement that it had been rejected by ByteDance as a buyer.
TikTok owner ByteDance has rejected the bid from Microsoft for its U.S. operations. A deadline for TikTok to sell its U.S. operations or shut them down is arriving on Tuesday.
Tiktok has signed up to the EU’s code of conduct on hate speech today, as it struggles to contain the spread of a suicide video on its platform. The video, which shows a person committing suicide, has been circulating on the app since Sunday night.
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A man has live-streamed his own death on Facebook with TikTok now scrambling to remove the clip which is being reshared by-users. Ronnie McNutt, 33, killed himself in his Mississippi home on August 31, by blowing his own face off with a shotgun, while he was live streaming from his computer.
Walmart and Microsoft are teaming up in a bid to acquire TikTok, in a deal that would give the retail company a key technology to reach younger shoppers and build out its third-party marketplace and advertising business.
TikTok's chief executive officer Kevin Mayer has quit his role over pressure from the White House to cut the company's ties to China. In a note to employees, Mayer said that changes to TikTok's structure driven by Donald Trump's threat to ban the company, have forced him out of the door.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 6 that would ban the TikTok app from the U.S by mid-September. TikTok has now officially filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, saying the order violates due process and exceeds the scope of sanction rules.
In the United States, President Trump has issued an executive order looking to force China's ByteDance to divest its U.S. operations in TikTok within 90 days, in another twist to his never-ending feud with China.
TikTok collected device-specific addresses of users’ smartphones via its Android app for at least 15 months, using a technique that Google has banned developers from using without user consent, a Wall Street Journal analysis has reportedly found.
President Trump said he would ban TikTok from the US Friday, which put ongoing acquisition discussions between Microsoft and TikTok parent company ByteDance on hold.
In the United States, President Trump has said he will take action to ban TikTok from the US. It comes after United States intelligence bosses fear the popular Chinese-owned video app presents a possible national security risk.
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has vacated the ban it imposed on the TikTok app in IndiaThe interim order banning downloads of the TikTok app was given by the Madras High Court on April 3 and the app was subsequently removed from Google and Apple’s app stores in accordance with the High Court’s order.
Apple and Google have pulled the extremely popular Chinese video app TikTok from their stores in India to comply with a court order prohibiting new downloads.
