Canada orders TikTok to shut down
Too much Chinese influence manages to anger the Canadians
Canada has instructed TikTok to wind up its business (get it?) within the country, citing potential national security risks posed by the platform and its parent company, ByteDance.
TikTok ticked off about spying claim
We really are not interested in Americans
TikTok is furious at a Forbes report alleging that its parent company wanted to use the video app to “monitor the personal location of some specific American citizens.”
Byte dance wants to make its own chips
If Apple can do it, anyone can do it
TikTok owner ByteDance is looking into designing its own chips because it says it hasn't been able to find suppliers that can meet its requirements.
ByteDance snaps up Moonton
$4 billion for the video gaming business
ByteDance's video games unit Nuverse has agreed to acquire Shanghai-based gaming studio Moonton Technology, for $4 billion as part of a cunning plan to expand into the video games business.
ByteDance wants to make semiconductors
The US really shouldn't have pulled the tiger's tail
The US government is probably going to regret trying to starve China of chip technology as part of its ongoing trade war. TikTok-owner ByteDance is making plans to develop semiconductors, according to the company’s job postings.
ByteDance wants to buy CMGE Technology Group
TikTok has to carve a niche
China’s ByteDance is in talks to buy into mobile games publisher CMGE Technology Group Las the owner of short video app TikTok moves to strengthen its next pillar of growth.