Lark is ByteDance’s bet on the enterprise-facing services sector, which has been boosted as remote work apps gain tractions.| TechNode
She also says that TikTok’s day-to-day management and business decisions came directly from China.| Fortune
Amazon.com was incorporated in 1994; as of 2024, it was the largest e-commerce retailer in the U.S. It is also a player in the grocery business, owing in part to its ownership of the Whole Foods supermarket chain. The company offers cloud services through its Amazon Web Services segment. Amazon develops and produces media content, much of which it streams through its Amazon Prime membership program; in 2021, it acquired the studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Amazon also makes and sells electro...| Fortune
Google's parent company, Alphabet, is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company. A few of its offerings include an advertising business; its Android phone products; and the Google Chrome web browser, search, Google Maps, and Google Photos. Alphabet also sells apps and in-app purchases through Google Play and YouTube, and offers cybersecurity, databases, and analytics. Its Google Workspace business includes cloud-based communication and collaboration tools for businesse...| Fortune
TikTok and ByteDance staff's easy access to the friend lists of the First Family and public figures has created national security and privacy risks ahead of the election.| Forbes
TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial data of its biggest stars — those in its "Creator Fund" — on servers in China.| Forbes
A former TikTok employee has complained to regulators about the company allegedly retaliating against him for speaking out against its policies.| Fortune
“I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans’ birthdays and phone numbers.| BuzzFeed News
TikTok’s Commitment to U.S. National Security TikTok’s mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. With more than a billion people using our platform to discover content and share their…| TikTok