A US TikTok ban could take a bite out of small businesses Without the popular social media platform, some creators and small enterprises across the globe could see their revenue plummet. Courtesy of Shira Full-time content creator Shira describes the potenital TikTok ban as "devastating" Ileana Justine, 30, a creator with a following of nearly 200,000 on TikTok at @ileanajustine, …
Almost three years after TikTok’s largest market, India, banned the Chinese-owned social media app due to geopolitical tensions, a Forbes report has revealed that troves of personal data from Indian citizens who used TikTok are still widely accessible to employees at the company and its Beijing-based parent, ByteDance. According to the employee, almost anyone with rudimentary access to the businesses’ …
China's ByteDance said on Monday that TikTok's global business will become its subsidiary, even as Oracle Corp and Walmart Inc said over the weekend that they and U.S. investors would own the majority of the video app following a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration. ByteDance in its statement on Monday said it was a “rumor” that U.S. investors …
Hong Kong CNN Business — TikTok is making the corporate technology company Oracle its business partner in the United States. “I think that Oracle would be certainly somebody that could handle it.” ‘Political considerations’ TikTok resorted to Oracle “mainly out of political considerations,” said Shirley Yu, visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and founder of an eponymous company …