U.S. GOVERNMENT APPEALS ORDER THAT BLOCKED TikTok RESTRICTIONS

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• The Trump administration said TikTok possesses threat to national security as it is likely to obtain personal data of U.S. users and provide it to Chinese government

• Previously a US District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington had issued an order blocking...

U.S. APPEALS COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS IN APPEAL CHALLENGING ORDER BLOCKING TikTok BAN

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• On September 27, US District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington blocked the US Commerce Department order hours before it was going to ban new downloads of Chinese-owned TikTok

• The appeals panel consists of Judges Robert Wilkins, Judith Rogers and Patrici...

ANOTHER U.S. JUDGE BLOCKS COMMERCE DEPARTMENT FROM IMPOSING RESTRICTIONS ON TikTok

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• A second US judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Commerce Depart from imposing restrictions on ByteDance-owned TikTok

• Talking about this decision given by judge Nichols, a TikTok spokesman said the company was pleased that...

TikTok EMPLOYEE WHO SUED US GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS HIS CASE

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• According to a filing dated November 13, submitted by Patrick Ryan, both the sides were in the favor of dismissing the case with prejudice

• ByteDance, which happens to be the parent company of TikTok has received an extension till November 27 of its dea...

TikTok AVERTS YET ANOTHER BAN IN THE U.S.

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• After this decision by the Pennsylvania judge, TikTok will still stay in the U.S. app stores and can be used by the Americans

• In order to  stop the app from being shut in the United States, three TikTok influencers in the country who are making mo...

END OF THE ROAD FOR TikTok, IF ORACLE DEAL NOT CLOSED WITH U.S. TERMS: STEVEN MNUCHIN

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• Mnuchin said all of the code will have to be in the United States. He further said that Oracle will be responsible for rebuilding the code, sanitizing the code, making sure it’s safe in their cloud, and whether it will satisfy all the US requirements

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US COURT TEMPORARILY BLOCKS TRUMP'S MOVE BANNING TikTok FROM APP STORES

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• As per the order issued by the Commerce Department, Google and Apple were asked to remove Tiktok owned by Chinese company ByteDance from their respective app stores

• The US district judge Carl Nichol granted a preliminary order to allow the app to remai...

TikTok's PARENT COMPANY ByteDance APPLIES FOR CHINESE TECH EXPORT LICENSE TO COMPLETE U.S. DEAL

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• ByteDance submitted an application to Beijing’s municipal commerce bureau and now is waiting for the approval

• While speaking to the reporters on Thursday, spokesman of Chinese commerce ministry Gao Feng said that the application from ByteDance ha...

TENCENT'S WeChat WITNESSES JUMP IN NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS BEFORE US BAN

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• The US Department of Commerce had issued an order asking Alphabet Inc’s Google and Apple Inc to take down WeChat for downloads, but this move was blocked by a US judge on Sunday

• According to data analytics firm Sensor Tower, WeChat was installed ...

ByteDance WILL HAVE NO OWNERSHIP IN TikTok GLOBAL: ORACLE

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• Oracle in its statement said upon creation of TikTok Global, Oracle/Walmart will make their investment and the TikTok Global shares will be distributed to their owners, Americans will be the majority and ByteDance will have no ownership in TikTok Global

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US PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE HAS GIVEN A GREEN SIGNAL TO TikTok-ORACLE DEAL

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• President Trump while speaking to the reporters said he has approved the deal in concept

• The US President said he has given the deal his blessing and if they get it done, that’s great, and if they don’t, that’s okay too

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US TO BAN TikTok AND WeChat FROM SUNDAY: OFFICIALS

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• After this ban, no American will be able to download these two apps developed by Chinese companies ByteDance and Tencent

• This ban announced on Friday will affect only new downloads and updates, while the existing users can continue using TikTok

ByteDance PLANNING A U.S. IPO OF TikTok GLOBAL TO SEAL THE DEAL

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• According to the sources, the filing of the IPO would be on U.S. stock exchange and likely to come in about a year

• On August 6, President Trump had ordered ByteDance to divest TikTok in the middle of growing concerns of national security

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ByteDance's TikTok TO OPERATE AS A U.S. COMPANY, TO AVOID BAN

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• ByteDance has decided to place TikTok's headquarters in the U.S. as this move will help TikTok escape President Donald Trump's ban

• Reports state that independent third parties will take the roles of directors of the new company, while ByteDance...

U.S. GOVERNMENT TO APPROVE ORACLE-TikTok DEAL ON TUESDAY: REPORT

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• Tech giant and one of the President Trump's favorite company, Oracle on Monday had confirmed of striking a deal with ByteDance

• CEO of Oracle Safra Catz previously took part in President Trump’s transition team, while Chairman Larry Ellison ha...

YouTube Shorts: NEWEST SUBSTITUTE FOR ByteDance's TikTok

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• YouTube Shorts is Alphabet's answer to TikTok developed by ByteDance and will allow users to upload 15-second or less short-term videos

• Most of the features in YouTube Shorts are similar to TikTok and its rival cloned by Instagram called Reels

IMPACT OF TRUMP’S WeChat BAN ON U.S. BUSINESSES IN CHINA

The President of the United States, Donald Trump recently signed an executive order to ban WeChat, a mobile-payment app that is owned by Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings.
According to the market analysts and experts, the impact of a ban of WeChat will more than on TikTok. The busi...

ByteDance LIKELY TO MISS US' SEPTEMBER 20 DEADLINE FOR TikTok DEAL

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• Before the arrival of new Chinese regulations, both Microsoft and Oracle had submitted their proposals and are still willing to purchase the U.S. arm of TikTok, and have not been discouraged by the involvement of Beijing

• As per the reports, without app...

TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER TO BAN CHINESE APP TIK TOK TO FACE LEGAL CHALLENGES

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• Trump’s executive order to ban Chinese app TikTok to face legal challenges.
• Trump had issued an executive order to ban the app and its parent company ByteDance.
• TikTok plans to file a suit against the executive ord...

RELIANCE INVESTMENT LIKELY IN TikTok; TALKS IN PROGRESS

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• TikTok was in the list of 59 apps blocked by the Government of India citing security concerns 

• Microsoft is also having discussion with ByteDance to acquire TikTok's US operations

• ByteDance wants Reliance Industries Limited to...