eicker.news #technews » #ByteDance generated $80B+ in 2022 revenue, up 30%+ YoY, after growing 70% between 2020 and 2021; #TikTok represented ~12% of ByteDance's total revenue. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/revenue-at-tiktok-owner-bytedance-rose-more-than-30-in-2022-topped-80-billion

Congress hearings end in uproar as TikTok CEO revealed to be three raccoon dogs in a trench coat

#ByteDance #TikTok #uspol

The death of #tiktok ?

https://www.platformer.news/p/tiktok-nears-the-endgame

#SocialMedia #Tech #news #politics #china #ByteDance

英國禁用 TikTok？政府單位手機全面禁止安裝使用
https://adersaytech.com/news/sn-news/tiktok-banned-in-uk-gov-device.html
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eicker.news #technews »#TikTok’s Parent #ByteDance Takes On #Meta in Battle for Virtual-Reality Market: By Q3 2022 the #Quest|s #marketshare had dropped to about 75%. Market share for #Pico more than tripled over the same period to about 15%.« https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktoks-parent-takes-on-meta-in-battle-for-virtual-reality-market-dd4abdb6

eicker.news #technews »#TikTok’s Chinese parent company, #ByteDance, is making inroads in #ecommerce. Consumers in China last year spent $208 billion buying things on #Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, an increase of 76% from 2021.« https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-parent-bytedances-e-commerce-volume-surged-in-2022-internal-data-show

On Thursday, ByteDance, #TikTok’s parent company, released the results of an internal investigation. Yes, #ByteDance confirmed, four of its employees in #China scooped up the data of two TikTok accounts belonging to U.S. journalists. https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-spying-internal-report-us-users

ByteDance parent company of video-sharing platform TikTok, found that employees tracked multiple journalists covering the company, improperly gaining access to their IP addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they had been in the same locales as ByteDance employees. #ByteDance #tiktok #china #spying
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/?sh=6570a5cb7da5

eicker.news #technews »#TikTok steps up efforts to clinch U.S. security deal: It has expanded #Oracle's role to ensuring that TikTok's #technologyinfrastructure is separate from #ByteDance.« https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-steps-up-efforts-clinch-us-security-deal-2022-12-22/

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CAVEAT #ORACLE: An ELEPHANT NEVER #FORGETS | Oracles #CIA Origins?? (No, I'm not joking)

#China says it Won’t Approve #TikTok Sale, calls it ‘#EXTORTION’ | September 22, 2020 #ByteDance and TikTok’s bidders #Oracle and #Walmart presented #conflicting messages on the future ownership of the app, confusing investors and users.

The September 20 #Deadline for a purported TikTok sale has already #passed, but the parties involved have yet to settle terms on the deal. Meanwhile, #Beijing’s discontent with the TikTok sale is increasingly obvious.

China has no reason to approve the “#dirty” and “#unfair” deal that allows #Oracle and #Walmart to effectively #take_over TikTok based on “#bullying and #extortion,” slammed an editorial published Wednesday in #China_Daily, an official English-language newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.

The editorial argued that TikTok’s #success — a #projected_revenue of about a #billion dollars by the end of 2020 — “has apparently made #Washington FEEL?? #uneasy” and #prompted?? the U.S. to use “#national_security as the #pretext to #BAN?? the short video sharing app.”

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/china-says-it-wont-greenlight-tiktok-deal/

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#TikTok PICKS #ORACLE over #Microsoft?? in #Trump_Forced #Sales_Bid

The owner of #TikTok has chosen #Oracle over #Microsoft as the #American_Tech_Partner that could help keep the popular video-sharing app running in the U.S., according to a source familiar with the deal who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.

Microsoft announced #Sunday that its bid to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations was #rejected, removing the tech giant from the running a #week_before President Donald Trump promises to follow through with a plan to #Ban the #Chinese_Owned #App in the U.S. over Spying Concerns.

The Trump administration has threatened to ban TikTok by Sept. 20 and ordered #ByteDance to #sell its #USA_Business, claiming #national_security_risks due to its #Chinese_ownership. The government worries about user #data being #funneled to Chinese authorities. #

TikTok #denies it is a #national_security_risk and is #suing to #stop the administration from the threatened #ban.

TikTok #declined to comment Sunday. Oracle didn't return a request for comment but has #previously_declined comment.

Microsoft said in a Sunday statement that #TikTok's parent company, #Bytedance, "let us know today they would not be selling TikTok's US operations to Microsoft."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tiktok-oracle-sale-bid-1.5722706

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CAVEAT #ORACLE: An ELEPHANT NEVER #FORGETS | Oracles #CIA Origins?? (No, I'm not joking)

#China says it Won’t Approve #TikTok Sale, calls it ‘#EXTORTION’ | September 22, 2020 #ByteDance and TikTok’s bidders #Oracle and #Walmart presented #conflicting messages on the future ownership of the app, confusing investors and users.

The September 20 #Deadline for a purported TikTok sale has already #passed, but the parties involved have yet to settle terms on the deal. Meanwhile, #Beijing’s discontent with the TikTok sale is increasingly obvious.

China has no reason to approve the “#dirty” and “#unfair” deal that allows #Oracle and #Walmart to effectively #take_over TikTok based on “#bullying and #extortion,” slammed an editorial published Wednesday in #China_Daily, an official English-language newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.

The editorial argued that TikTok’s #success — a #projected_revenue of about a #billion dollars by the end of 2020 — “has apparently made #Washington FEEL?? #uneasy” and #prompted?? the U.S. to use “#national_security as the #pretext to #BAN?? the short video sharing app.”

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/china-says-it-wont-greenlight-tiktok-deal/

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#TikTok PICKS #ORACLE over #Microsoft?? in #Trump_Forced #Sales_Bid

The owner of #TikTok has chosen #Oracle over #Microsoft as the #American_Tech_Partner that could help keep the popular video-sharing app running in the U.S., according to a source familiar with the deal who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.

Microsoft announced #Sunday that its bid to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations was #rejected, removing the tech giant from the running a #week_before President Donald Trump promises to follow through with a plan to #Ban the #Chinese_Owned #App in the U.S. over Spying Concerns.

The Trump administration has threatened to ban TikTok by Sept. 20 and ordered #ByteDance to #sell its #USA_Business, claiming #national_security_risks due to its #Chinese_ownership. The government worries about user #data being #funneled to Chinese authorities. #

TikTok #denies it is a #national_security_risk and is #suing to #stop the administration from the threatened #ban.

TikTok #declined to comment Sunday. Oracle didn't return a request for comment but has #previously_declined comment.

Microsoft said in a Sunday statement that #TikTok's parent company, #Bytedance, "let us know today they would not be selling TikTok's US operations to Microsoft."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tiktok-oracle-sale-bid-1.5722706

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CAVEAT #ORACLE: An ELEPHANT NEVER #FORGETS | Oracles #CIA Origins?? (No, I'm not joking)

#China says it Won’t Approve #TikTok Sale, calls it ‘#EXTORTION’ | September 22, 2020 #ByteDance and TikTok’s bidders #Oracle and #Walmart presented #conflicting messages on the future ownership of the app, confusing investors and users.

The September 20 #Deadline for a purported TikTok sale has already #passed, but the parties involved have yet to settle terms on the deal. Meanwhile, #Beijing’s discontent with the TikTok sale is increasingly obvious.

China has no reason to approve the “#dirty” and “#unfair” deal that allows #Oracle and #Walmart to effectively #take_over TikTok based on “#bullying and #extortion,” slammed an editorial published Wednesday in #China_Daily, an official English-language newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.

The editorial argued that TikTok’s #success — a #projected_revenue of about a #billion dollars by the end of 2020 — “has apparently made #Washington FEEL?? #uneasy” and #prompted?? the U.S. to use “#national_security as the #pretext to #BAN?? the short video sharing app.”

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/china-says-it-wont-greenlight-tiktok-deal/

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CAVEAT #ORACLE: An ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS | #MEMORY_LANE | Oracles #CIA Origins?? (No, I'm not joking). |

#TikTok PICKS #ORACLE over #Microsoft?? in #Trump_Forced #Sales_Bid

The owner of #TikTok has chosen #Oracle over #Microsoft as the #American_Tech_Partner that could help keep the popular video-sharing app running in the U.S., according to a source familiar with the deal who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.

Microsoft announced #Sunday that its bid to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations was #rejected, removing the tech giant from the running a #week_before President Donald Trump promises to follow through with a plan to #Ban the #Chinese_Owned #App in the U.S. over Spying Concerns.

The Trump administration has threatened to ban TikTok by Sept. 20 and ordered #ByteDance to #sell its #USA_Business, claiming #national_security_risks due to its #Chinese_ownership. The government worries about user #data being #funneled to Chinese authorities. #

TikTok #denies it is a #national_security_risk and is #suing to #stop the administration from the threatened #ban.

TikTok #declined to comment Sunday. Oracle didn't return a request for comment but has #previously_declined comment.

Microsoft said in a Sunday statement that #TikTok's parent company, #Bytedance, "let us know today they would not be selling TikTok's US operations to Microsoft."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tiktok-oracle-sale-bid-1.5722706

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CAVEAT #ORACLE: An ELEPHANT NEVER #FORGETS | Oracles #CIA Origins?? (No, I'm not joking)

#China says it Won’t Approve #TikTok Sale, calls it ‘#EXTORTION’ | September 22, 2020 #ByteDance and TikTok’s bidders #Oracle and #Walmart presented #conflicting messages on the future ownership of the app, confusing investors and users.

The September 20 #Deadline for a purported TikTok sale has already #passed, but the parties involved have yet to settle terms on the deal. Meanwhile, #Beijing’s discontent with the TikTok sale is increasingly obvious.

China has no reason to approve the “#dirty” and “#unfair” deal that allows #Oracle and #Walmart to effectively #take_over TikTok based on “#bullying and #extortion,” slammed an editorial published Wednesday in #China_Daily, an official English-language newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.

The editorial argued that TikTok’s #success — a #projected_revenue of about a #billion dollars by the end of 2020 — “has apparently made #Washington FEEL?? #uneasy” and #prompted?? the U.S. to use “#national_security as the #pretext to #BAN?? the short video sharing app.”

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/china-says-it-wont-greenlight-tiktok-deal/

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CAVEAT #ORACLE: An ELEPHANT NEVER #FORGETS | Oracles #CIA Origins?? (No, I'm not joking)

#China says it Won’t Approve #TikTok Sale, calls it ‘#EXTORTION’ | September 22, 2020 #ByteDance and TikTok’s bidders #Oracle and #Walmart presented #conflicting messages on the future ownership of the app, confusing investors and users.

The September 20 #Deadline for a purported TikTok sale has already #passed, but the parties involved have yet to settle terms on the deal. Meanwhile, #Beijing’s discontent with the TikTok sale is increasingly obvious.

China has no reason to approve the “#dirty” and “#unfair” deal that allows #Oracle and #Walmart to effectively #take_over TikTok based on “#bullying and #extortion,” slammed an editorial published Wednesday in #China_Daily, an official English-language newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.

The editorial argued that TikTok’s #success — a #projected_revenue of about a #billion dollars by the end of 2020 — “has apparently made #Washington FEEL?? #uneasy” and #prompted?? the U.S. to use “#national_security as the #pretext to #BAN?? the short video sharing app.”

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/china-says-it-wont-greenlight-tiktok-deal/

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#TikTok PICKS #ORACLE over #Microsoft?? in #Trump_Forced #Sales_Bid

The owner of #TikTok has chosen #Oracle over #Microsoft as the #American_Tech_Partner that could help keep the popular video-sharing app running in the U.S., according to a source familiar with the deal who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.

Microsoft announced #Sunday that its bid to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations was #rejected, removing the tech giant from the running a #week_before President Donald Trump promises to follow through with a plan to #Ban the #Chinese_Owned #App in the U.S. over Spying Concerns.

The Trump administration has threatened to ban TikTok by Sept. 20 and ordered #ByteDance to #sell its #USA_Business, claiming #national_security_risks due to its #Chinese_ownership. The government worries about user #data being #funneled to Chinese authorities. #

TikTok #denies it is a #national_security_risk and is #suing to #stop the administration from the threatened #ban.

TikTok #declined to comment Sunday. Oracle didn't return a request for comment but has #previously_declined comment.

Microsoft said in a Sunday statement that #TikTok's parent company, #Bytedance, "let us know today they would not be selling TikTok's US operations to Microsoft."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tiktok-oracle-sale-bid-1.5722706

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#TikTok won't commit to stopping #US #data_flows to #China

TikTok repeatedly #declined to #commit to #US_lawmakers on Wednesday that the short-form #video_app will cut off flows of US user data to China, instead promising that the outcome of its negotiations with the #US_government "will satisfy all national security concerns."

Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, TikTok Chief Operating Officer Vanessa Pappas first sparred with Sen. Rob Portman over details of TikTok's corporate structure before being confronted — twice — with a specific request.

"Will TikTok commit to cutting off all data and data flows to China, China-based TikTok employees, ByteDance employees, or any other party in China that might have the capability to access information on US users?" Portman asked.

TikTok ties to China are once again under fire in Washington.

Here's why ..

The question reflects bipartisan concerns in Washington about the possibility that US user data could find its way to the #Chinese government and be used to undermine US interests, thanks to a #national_security_law in that country that compels companies located there to cooperate with data requests.

US officials have expressed fears that China could use Americans' personal information to identify useful potential agents or intelligence targets, or to inform future mis- or #disinformation campaigns.

TikTok does not operate in China, Pappas said, though it does have an office in China.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance,

#ByteDance employees had accessed US user data on multiple occasions. In a subsequent letter to lawmakers, TikTok acknowledged the ability for China-based individuals to access #US #user_data but highlighted cybersecurity controls that were "overseen by our US-based security team."

#TikTok pledges more transparency for researchers amid renewed scrutiny
TikTok pledges more transparency for researchers amid renewed scrutiny
Pappas affirmed in Wednesday's hearing that the company has said, on record, that its Chinese employees do have access to US user data..

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/14/tech/tiktok-china-data/index.html

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eicker.news #technews »#TikTok Parent #ByteDance Sees #Losses Swell in #PushforGrowth: #Socialmedia giant saw its #operatinglosses more than triple last year to above $7 billion.« https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-parent-bytedance-sees-losses-swell-in-push-for-growth-11665071238