Day: August 31, 2020

The bids for TikTok are in, and ByteDance seems to have realized that “the writing is on the wall,” meaning that a sale may be the only option with an executive order looming from U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Wedbush. The TikTok Sale Analyst: Daniel Ives said Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) […]

Big box behemoth. Tech juggernaut. Controversial social media upstart. Talk about strange bedfellows. TikTok’s Chinese owners are reportedly looking to sell its U.S. assets. That search was spurred by President Donald Trump’s executive order this month that ByteDance sell the U.S. TikTok assets to a U.S. firm. Walmart and Microsoft […]

Now that we’re one week into a socially distant semester, Penn State has made sure to keep up with randomly testing students, faculty, and staff for coronavirus. For those who have tested positive, that means quarantining on campus. College students in similar positions around the country have taken to TikTok […]

Chinese officials on Friday revised rules that govern the sale of certain kinds of technology to foreign buyers. The updated list includes data processing, speech and text recognition, according to government notices. The announcement marked the first time those rules have been revised since 2008. China’s Ministry of Commerce and […]

Watching TikTok over the last two weeks, you will have heard an audio clip so repetitive and annoying that you essentially have no choice but to let it live in your head for as long as it requires. No, we’re not talking about “it’s Unknown T, Homerton B” – although […]

That Wednesday morning in February was like any other for Jessica Woo. The 33-year-old mom of three fed her 1-year-old while her two older daughters got ready for school. She washed her face, put on a little makeup, and then headed into the kitchen of her Las Vegas home to […]

While filming herself putting on makeup before work recently, TikTok user @gracie.ham reached deep into the ancient foundations of mathematics and found an absolute gem of a question: How could someone come up with a concept like algebra? She also asked what the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras might have used […]

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Tim Culpan is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. He previously covered technology for Bloomberg News. Read more opinion Is Trump being outplayed on TikTok? Imagine a bidder wanting to buy KFC, but being told the deal might not include the Colonel’s 11 secret herbs and spices. That’s effectively what Beijing has […]

TikTok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken November 27, 2019. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Chinese-owned TikTok is not in talks to sell its U.S. business to rival short-video-sharing app Triller, the company told CNBC on Monday.  “We can confirm that […]