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TikTok, ByteDance sue to block US law seeking sale or ban of app

Chinese firm says divestiture ‘is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally’

Tue May 07 2024 - 17:27

TikTok: Social media platform faces potential US ban if parent company does not sell it

Bill passed by Senate gives China-based ByteDance up to one year to divest Tiktok before facing deletion from US app stores

Wed Apr 24 2024 - 07:27

TikTok revenues hit $16bn in US where it faces ban

Owner ByteDance is on track to overtake Facebook owner Meta as the world’s largest social media company by sales

Fri Mar 15 2024 - 11:33

ByteDance’s US investors weigh options as bill to ban TikTok advances

One idea under discussion would be to take voting control of the popular video app

Fri Mar 15 2024 - 07:57

Will Big Tech agree to play by Europe’s new digital rules?

Large online platforms now have to comply with new EU regulations on competition. Too little too late, say some

Thu Mar 14 2024 - 05:45

TikTok takes over Indonesia’s Tokopedia in bid to overcome ecommerce rules

ByteDance’s social media company to invest $1.5bn for controlling stake in GoTo unit

Mon Dec 11 2023 - 08:08

TikTok ruling raises more questions about Chinese company’s safety standards

Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s €345 million fine of TikTok shows Beijing-owned video-sharing app is firmly in sights of data regulators

Fri Sept 15 2023 - 14:30

TikTok begins moving European data to Dublin centre

Project Clover migration to ringfence personal information

Tue Sept 05 2023 - 12:45

TikTok seeks to axe planned public access to cafe at new Dublin HQ

Social media giant says security concerns mean it cannot accommodate public access provided for under current planning permission

Tue May 23 2023 - 17:30

TikTok spied on me. Why?

What happened when a reporter learned she had been surveilled by the controversial social media company

Fri May 05 2023 - 08:50

TikTok exists in two parallel worlds and only one is worried about China

Ownership of social media app puts it at centre of rising geopolitical alarm, but you wouldn’t always know it

Tue Mar 28 2023 - 04:32

Jingles fall silent as Brussels bans TikTok

Several European governments are either restricting the app for civil servants or ordering security assessments

Thu Mar 16 2023 - 05:00

Video game developers eye Ireland for new tax incentive plan

Programme will offer a refundable corporation tax of €8m for expenditures on qualifying projects

Fri Mar 03 2023 - 13:31

TikTok plans second data centre for Ireland

Chinese social media company’s plan at ‘advanced stage’ as it aims to expand its European data storage

Fri Feb 17 2023 - 07:38

TikTok reports average 5% hourly gender pay gap at Irish operations

Social media company employs more than 2,000 people in State

Wed Dec 21 2022 - 13:07

‘TikTok is eating the world’: short-video app building itself into an advertising juggernaut

Reach among young adults overcomes advertisers’ concerns about group’s Chinese owners, content quality and problems with bot traffic

Thu Nov 24 2022 - 05:00

Alphabet misses on revenue as YouTube ad business slowed by Ukraine war

Investors rattled as global economy sputters

Wed Apr 27 2022 - 08:06

Caveat: Ireland needs to be careful it doesn’t end up dancing to TikTok’s tune

The Chinese-controlled social media giant potentially could be even more troublesome for the State than its US Silicon Valley peers

Fri Apr 22 2022 - 05:52

TikTok signs on as Eurovision partner

Social media video app will livestream Eurovision finals next month alongside ‘behind the scenes’ content and playlists of entrants

Thu Apr 14 2022 - 06:00

US stocks snap gains to fall sharply after downbeat tech earnings

Disappointing updates from tech giants reverberate through the sector

Thu Feb 03 2022 - 15:44

Alphabet, Google beat sales estimates for Christmas quarter

Pandemic-driven trend to e-commerce and hybrid work helps advertising revenue jump 32.5%

Tue Feb 01 2022 - 21:40

China to order cybersecurity reviews for some firms seeking overseas listings

New rules will boost oversight over how companies make plans to list abroad

Tue Jan 04 2022 - 07:19

SpaceX could make Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire, says Morgan Stanley

Most of Musk’s money so far has come from Tesla

Wed Oct 20 2021 - 14:04

TikTok to be scrutinised over use of personal data

DPC to look at platform’s processing of children’s information and data transfer to China

Tue Sept 14 2021 - 21:50

Stripe ‘in early discussions with investment banks about going public’

Company considering market debut through direct listing or initial public offering as soon as next year

Fri Sept 10 2021 - 23:03

Payments company Stripe takes first step toward listing – reports

Company has reportedly hired a law firm to help with early-stage preparations to list

Fri Jul 09 2021 - 09:22

TikTok names ByteDance CFO Shouzi Chew as CEO

Vanessa Pappas, who has served as interim head named chief operating officer

Fri Apr 30 2021 - 21:47

TikTok to open transparency centre in Ireland

Accountability unit will initially operate virtually, offering tours from June 2021

Tue Apr 27 2021 - 05:05

TikTok facing London lawsuit over child privacy concerns

Action accuses video app of violating UK, European data protection laws

Wed Apr 21 2021 - 08:30

Watchdog engages with TikTok over Chinese access to EU user data

Helen Dixon says app’s Chinese engineers may be accessing EU personal data

Thu Mar 11 2021 - 21:26

Clock ticks for TikTok sale as ByteDance seeks more time

Executive order gave Chinese owned company until November 12th to clinch deal

Thu Nov 12 2020 - 06:18

Fifteen seconds to sell: TikTok moves into social ecommerce

Shopify deal will allow users to shop as they scroll through app’s short-form videos

Tue Oct 27 2020 - 16:11

ByteDance and Oracle at loggerheads over terms of TikTok agreement

Doubts cast on Trump’s preliminary blessing of deal to allow app continue operating in US

Mon Sept 21 2020 - 19:34

US judge halts Trump administration’s order to remove WeChat from app stores

Prohibitions burden substantially more speech than necessary, judge says

Sun Sept 20 2020 - 15:53