Zhang Yiming has built a $57.5 billion fortune since cofounding ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok. Zhang is highly private and little is publicly known about his personal life.

In a nutshell: AI startup Perplexity is once again proposing the unlikely scenario that it takes over TikTok's US business operations. If the company were able to pull off this feat, it promises ...

TikTok's future in the US remains uncertain as the April 5 ban deadline nears unless ByteDance sells it to a US-based entity. Concerns over data privacy and ties to the Chinese government fuel the ...

Investing.com - U.S. TIC long term purchases rose more-than-expected last month, official data showed on Monday.In a report, Department of the Treasury said that U.S. TIC long term purchases rose ...

The study explored TikTok's role as an educational tool for ADHD. A new study finds that nearly half of the most popular ADHD videos on TikTok share misleading claims that don't match official ...

Top congressional aides met with Oracle on Tuesday to talk about TikTok, which faces a ban in the United States unless it is sold to a non-Chinese owner by early April. By Sapna Maheshwari and ...

As TikTok continues to dominate social media, keeping your own account secure is more important than ever. Both casual scrollers as well as content creators need to be conscious of threats like ...

Even those with the disorder can’t always spot misleading posts, a study finds. By Christina Caron On TikTok, misinformation about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can be tricky to spot ...

For several years, Oracle has worked with TikTok in the US. The company is contracted to provide cloud services and maintain a separation between US users’ data and ByteDance employees in China.

With eviction court looming, Council had almost given up—until TikTok turned everything around. The latest example of a recent trend of TikTok small business success stories, people started ...

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