TikTok has never been available in China, as the country has its own version of the app, called Douyin. Both apps are owned by the same Chinese company, ByteDance. Thus far, we've been unable to find ...

13 November 2019, Berlin: ILLUSTRATION - A girl is holding her smartphone with the logo of the short video app TikTok in her hands. With TikTok, users can create short mobile phone videos to music ...

Three years ago, ByteDance was one of the world's largest technology unicorns and a household name in China's new media and entertainment sector. But like its bigger arch-rivals, Baidu, Alibaba and ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

China has attacked a bill going through US Congress that could ultimately see TikTok banned in the States, calling it unjust. It is the latest move in a years-long row over safety fears about the app ...

TikTok’s rise in the West is unprecedented for any Chinese tech company, and so is the amount of attention it has attracted from politicians worldwide. Below is a timeline of how TikTok grew from what ...

Irish regulators have fined TikTok €345m (£296m) for violating children's privacy. The complaint concerned how the social media app handled children's data in 2020 - particularly around age ...