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China’s WeChat sees spike in US downloads ahead of U.S. ban

Chinese tech giant Tencent’s WeChat messaging app has seen a surge in downloads in the United States since Friday after Washington confirmed...

China’s Tiktok owner seeks $60 billion valuation in U.S. deal

China's ByteDance Ltd is seeking a valuation of $60 billion for TikTok as Oracle Corp and Walmart Inc take stakes in the short-video app's...

Facebook tells Irish court it can’t operate in EU if regulators freeze its data...

Facebook has told Ireland’s High Court it cannot see how its services could operate in the European Union if regulators freeze its...

Judge thwarts Trump’s attempts to ban downloads of Chinese app, WeChat

A judge has blocked a US government attempt to ban the Chinese messaging and payments app, WeChat. US Magistrate...

Tiktok owner says not aware of $5bn education fund in U.S.A

TikTok owner Bytedance said in a social media post on Sunday that it was the first time it had heard in the...

Trump set to ban downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday – officials

The U.S. Commerce Department plans to issue an order Friday that will bar people in the United States from downloading Chinese-owned messaging...

Tesla wins case against former employee accused of hacking, transferring data

U.S. electric carmaker Tesla Inc won its case against a former employee, who was fired for hacking and transferring company data to...

U.S. says WeChat users will not be punished

WeChat users will not face civil or criminal penalties even if the United States bans the Chinese-owned messaging app through other actions...

U.S. offers to exempt employees, contractors from TikTok executive order

The United States has offered to exclude from President Donald Trump’s executive order transactions that involve TikTok employees and contractors performing “their...

ByteDance’s Chinese version of TikTok hits 600 million daily users

Douyin, the Chinese version of short video app TikTok, hit 600 million daily active users in August, an executive with parent company...

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