Over the past year, TikTok has taken the world by storm with addictive content that you can sink hours into. Now, it’s even easier to spend too much time on the platform. TikTok is coming to Android TV.
TikTok Stories February 4
TikTok Stories September 18, 2020
TikTok and WeChat banned in the US, stripped from app stores soon
This morning, the US Commerce Department has officially announced that it will ban two massively popular applications in the United States — TikTok and WeChat.
TikTok Stories August 21, 2020
Report: Alphabet considered TikTok investment as part of group bid
TikTok is currently looking for a buyer before the November 12th deadline imposed by President Trump. The social media service will be banned unless there’s an acquisition, and many companies from Microsoft and Oracle to Twitter have been rumored to be in the running. A new report today says that Alphabet looked into making a TikTok investment as part of a broader group bid.
TikTok Stories August 11, 2020
Report: TikTok used loophole to collect MAC addresses on Android
At the start of this month, President Trump announced that the US would “close down” TikTok on September 15 unless it was acquired. Data privacy and security concerns have always shrouded the app, and a new report reveals one particular loophole that TikTok exploited on Android to collect MAC addresses.
TikTok Stories July 31, 2020
Earlier today, it emerged that President Trump was reportedly planning to order ByteDance to divest TikTok, with Microsoft in talks to acquire. The US is now going further and plans to ban the social network from operating in the US as soon as tomorrow. Meanwhile, he is against a possible Microsoft spinoff.
TikTok Stories July 9, 2020
[Update: Fixed] TikTok likes and views disappear following talk of US ban, fix on the way
Over the last few years, and especially since the COVID-19 pandemic gave many of us a lot more free time, TikTok has become one of the leading social media apps worldwide. Today, following talk of the United States officially banning the service, likes and view counts have disappeared from the TikTok app, but a fix is on the way.
