TikTok's suit argues this violates First Amendment rights of free speech.

Sales also grew to nearly $120 billion from $80 billion.

Among six firms named as market "gatekeepers" under the EU's landmark Digital Markets Act -- along with Amazon, TikTok owner ByteDance and Microsoft -- the companies have been obliged to comply with the new law since March 7.

Seoul, South Korea - As a US campaign to sever TikTok from its Chinese parent heads to the Senate, analysts say Beijing's response to a forced sale of the app -- and its 'secret sauce' algorithm -- will be clear: Hands off. Under new legislation that passed the House of Representatives...

Years of on-and-off attempts of banning the Chinese owned app have resurged in the United States with the introduction of a bill in Congress that could see the app forced to cut ties with its Chinese owner, Bytedance. The US House of Representatives could vote this week on the bill...

Brussels, Belgium - The EU on Monday hit Apple with a more than 1.8-billion-euro fine ($1.9 billion) for violating the bloc's laws by preventing European users from accessing information about alternative, cheaper music streaming services. The iPhone maker immediately vowed to appeal the first ever antitrust fine slapped on Apple by...

It is in talks with buyers including tech giant Tencent.

The deal was originally expected to be completed by 2021.

From Indonesia, TikTok Shop "aggressively expanded into five additional Southeast Asian markets, many of which boasted large populations of TikTok users" and invested to improve its e-commerce capabilities, said Weihan Chen, head of insights at Momentum Works. The return of offline shopping after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted led to a...

ByteDance's success in China's highly competitive internet sector has been largely thanks to its popular short video app Douyin.

Tencent is the owner of popular messaging app WeChat.

The ultimatum to TikTok came from the US interagency board charged with assessing risks foreign investments represent to national security. Western powers, including the European Union and the United States, have been taking an increasingly tough approach to the app, citing fears that user data could be used or abused...

TikTok executives said the company was working with a third-party European security company to oversee and check how it handles European users' data, which will be stored at two centers in Dublin and one in Norway from 2023 onwards. European users' data are currently stored in the United States and...

The Senate bill and the backing of the White House accelerated the political momentum against TikTok, which is also the target of a separate piece of legislation in the US House of Representatives.

Brussels, Belgium - The European Parliament has told staff to purge TikTok from devices used for work because of data protection concerns, after similar moves by the EU's main governing bodies last week. The parliament's president, Roberta Metsola, and the secretary-general, Alessandro Chiocchetti, decided TikTok must not be used or installed...

The Chinese-owned platform is under growing Western scrutiny, and Canada's move came just hours after the European Commission banned the app from all employees' work devices to "protect" the institution. The investigation was initiated "in the wake of now-settled class-action lawsuits in the United States and Canada, as well as...

The ban also means European Commission staff cannot use the Chinese-owned video-sharing app on personal devices including phones that have official apps installed, the spokesperson said, confirming a report by news website Euractiv.

TikTok is fighting for its survival in the US with rising calls from mainly Republican lawmakers that the company should be outright banned for its links to Beijing. Shou Zi Chew will give testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee after Republicans recently took over as the majority in...

Owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, TikTok has become a political punching bag for US conservatives who allege that the app downloaded by millions of US young people can be circumvented for spying or propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). TikTok is the equivalent of "digital fentanyl," said Republican...

Employees had obtained the IP addresses of the journalists in a bid to determine whether they were in the same location as ByteDance colleagues suspected of disclosing confidential information, a company review of the scheme led by its compliance team and an external law firm found, according to Andersen.

TikTok on Friday said Oracle will store all the data from its US users, in a bid to allay fears about its safety in the hands of a platform owned by ByteDance in China. The announcement came as the popular video snippet sharing service fended off concerns about the ability...

The app is now letting users upload videos as long as 10 minutes.

Powered by a highly personalized content recommendation system TikTok can help brands connect with a qualified, engaged audience, the Talkwalker and Hubspot research says.

Option to post longer videos will roll out in the coming weeks TikTok has more than 1 billion users worldwide; 100 million in the US TikTok will be letting users post videos up to three minutes in length, tripling the prior cap to stay ahead of competitors. TikTok is believed...