A woman walks past the headquarters of ByteDance, the parent company of video sharing app TikTok, in Beijing on September 16, 2020. - Silicon Valley tech giant Oracle is "very close" to sealing a deal ...

TikTok is fighting to stay alive in the United States as pressure builds in Washington to ban the app if its Chinese owners don’t sell the company. But the wildly popular platform, developed with ...

Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, spurred a creator economy with more than 700 million active users. The social media video app, owned by ByteDance has parental controls and even time limits. NBC ...

TikTok's Beijing-based owner was among the companies under pressure this month to get tough on moneymaking stunts after a livestreamer reportedly drank himself to death two weeks ago. China's most ...

With the U.S. ban on Chinese-owned Tik Tok thought to be imminent, users are starting to flee. The most popular replacement? A different Chinese video app, RedNote. The Verge's Emma Roth reports: ...

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill this week that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short video app, or face a ...

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Macron recently claimed that China offers its children a more educational version of TikTok, while the version available in ...

The Chinese version of TikTok, called Douyin, is limiting kids’ time on the app to 40 minutes per day and banning all overnight use. Douyin users under the age of 14 with “real name authenticated” ...

Tencent’s WeChat Pay and Alibaba’s affiliate Alipay have long dominated digital payments in China, but they have always faced new challengers. The latest entrant in online payments is Douyin, TikTok’s ...