J.P. Morgan is quietly building financial tools for ByteDance products like TikTok, expanding China’s grip on the high stakes payments space.| Forbes
The ban came as part of the 4,126-page spending bill and follows several state government bans of the app.| NBC News
A former employee of TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, claims Chinese national police detained his father and took him to "a remote secret facility" to inter...| Forbes
Other security issues at the sites have included unattended boxes of hard drives, illicit crypto mining, and a sanctioned supplier.| Forbes
Months before the U.S. government demanded ByteDance divest from TikTok, the Department Of Justice’s Criminal Division subpoenaed the app’s Chinese parent company, according to a source.| Forbes
TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in “heating,” a manual push that ensures specific videos “achieve a certain number of video views,” according to six sources and documents reviewed by Forbes.| Forbes
India’s 150 million users were forced to stop using TikTok in 2020, but employees at the company and its parent ByteDance can still mine some of Indian users' most sensitive data.| Forbes
Sequoia’s China and India and Southeast Asia funds are shedding their brand ties, becoming new firms HongShan and Peak XV Partners.| Forbes
For the past four years the Biden administration and TikTok have been negotiating a deal to resolve national security concerns posed by the Chinese-owned app. Here’s a look inside a draft of the deal.| Forbes
A major ruling today will require the tech giants to remove TikTok from their app stores by January 19 or face enormous fines — unless the courts throw them a bone before then.| Forbes
Internal privacy experts worried that not having a corporate records retention policy could violate U.S. and EU laws. Years later, the company still doesn’t have one.| Forbes