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TikTok Inc

  • Sunday, 5 October, 2025
    Indonesia lifts TikTok licence suspension after app shares data

    Short video platform widely used during August protests agrees to provide livestreaming information

    Anti-riot police officers stand guard in front of the mobile brigade police headquarters in Jakarta after protests
  • Friday, 3 October, 2025
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    Indonesia suspends TikTok’s licence over refusal to share protest data

    South-east Asian country is video app’s second-biggest market after the US

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  • Friday, 26 September, 2025
    TikTok’s Chinese owner set for outsized share of US profits under Trump deal

    ByteDance set for greater financial upsides than US shareholders following Washington-Beijing agreement

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  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
    TikTok US to be valued at $14bn after Trump’s deal, White House says

    Abu Dhabi’s MGX joins Silver Lake and Oracle as lead investors

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  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 23 September, 2025
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    Plus, how top hedge funders make their millions and trouble at a car parts supplier

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  • Monday, 22 September, 2025
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    TikTok algorithm to be overseen by Oracle in Trump deal

    White House says US owners of app will lease and rebuild ByteDance’s recommendation software

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  • Sunday, 21 September, 2025
    Murdochs and Michael Dell part of TikTok buyer group, says Trump

    US president says Rupert and Lachlan would join the computer pioneer as well as Oracle’s Larry Ellison in potential deal

    A 3D-printed miniature model of Donald Trump is shown next to the TikTok logo
  • Friday, 19 September, 2025
    US-China relations
    Trump and Xi to meet in South Korea as US president hails TikTok deal

    American leader says Chinese counterpart approved sale of video app’s American operations

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  • Tuesday, 16 September, 2025
    Beijing says TikTok’s US app will use Chinese algorithm

    Donald Trump extends deadline to shut down social media platform as he promises a deal with China

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  • Monday, 15 September, 2025
    Trump signals US and China have struck TikTok deal

    US president says talks with Beijing have ‘gone very well’ and plans call with Xi Jinping this week

    The TikTok logo displayed on a smartphone screen held in a hand, illuminated by red light.
  • Thursday, 4 September, 2025
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    From skibidi to rizz, why the internet loves slang 

    The online engagement treadmill deliberately pushes niche language into the mainstream

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  • Friday, 22 August, 2025
    TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK moderators as it shifts to AI

    Moves comes despite Online Safety Act requirements on dangerous material

    A man looks at his phone while walking past a neon TikTok logo on the wall inside the TikTok UK office.
  • Thursday, 14 August, 2025
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  • Wednesday, 30 July, 2025
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    It’s time to retire the word ‘technology’

    The word spans too much and clarifies too little

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  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Trump says he has found group of ‘wealthy people’ to buy TikTok

    US administration has repeatedly delayed deadline for Chinese owner to sell social media platform’s US operations

    A photo shows the Chinese social networking service TikTok’s logo on a smartphone screen (left) with the US and Chinese flags combined behind it
  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
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    Tennis recruits TikTok as it chases the next wave of fans

    The sport has had mixed success in its efforts to appeal to Gen Z

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Trump plans to delay TikTok ban for a third time

    US president will sign an executive order this week extending deal deadline by 90 days

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  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    Tucker Carlson was on White House list of potential TikTok investors

    Vice-president JD Vance pushed for rightwing media star’s inclusion in a deal for video app

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  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    ReviewTelevision
    The money-spinning surprises of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

    The hit reality TV show has returned for a second season, with its cast of ‘MomTok’ influencers still pushing boundaries

  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    EU takes action against TikTok over online content rules

    Ad transparency investigation is one of several ongoing European cases against social media platform

    A smartphone displaying the TikTok logo, set against a backdrop featuring the EU stars
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    ReviewMusic
    PinkPantheress: Fancy That — figurehead of Gen Z pop knows how to tell a story

    TikTok was the singer’s launchpad but her ethos is less carefree than it seems

  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    TikTok fined €530mn for sending EU user data to China

    Social media group hit by one of the biggest financial penalties ever issued by Ireland’s data protection watchdog

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  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    Trump to extend deadline for TikTok deal in the US

    Executive order would give video app’s Chinese owner another 75 days to find buyer before American ban takes effect

    A montage of a US flag and the TikTok logo on a phone
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Trump floats China tariff relief in exchange for TikTok sale approval

    US president suggests he is open to horse-trading a day after imposing severe import levies on Chinese goods

    A man walks away from the TikTok US headquarters in Culver City, California
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