Early ByteDance Backer Halves Funding Goal as Startup Bets Cool
Source Code Capital, among the earliest backers of TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd., is halving its fundraising target to about ...
US private equity-backed data centres fuel growth of TikTok’s Chinese owner
Global buyout groups often do not know whether ByteDance uses their facilities to exploit a legal loophole to access chips ...
Why Trump is not TikTok’s saviour
The president's insistence on US ownership and tariff threats betray how much he covets the app, in particular its hi-tech ...
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TikTok Isn’t Just Surviving the US Ban — It’s Crushing YouTube and Meta In 2025
Despite the federal ban, US TikTok users average 107 minutes a day on the app in January, blowing YouTube and Meta apps out ...
Baidu makes ‘Ernie Bot’ free from April 1 as AI competition intensifies in China
Baidu will make Ernie Bot free from April 1 to boost adoption as AI competition in China intensifies against ByteDance and ...
Avoiding DeepSeek’s dodgy iOS app, and Proton VPNs censorship battle in numbers
DeepSeek app disables an iOS data security measure called App Transport Security (ATS), which prevents sensitive data from being sent over unencrypted channels.
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Trump Plans to Create a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund and Suggests Potential TikTok Acquisition
President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on Feb. 3, 2025, directing the Treasury and Commerce secretaries to submit a comprehensive ...