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The general counsel of TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance is no longer in charge of working with officials to keep the app in US. Source link

If the measure is passed, it would give the White House the legal tools to ban TikTok in the US over national security concerns. Source link

Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, is competing against Meituan in food delivery and other segments of on-demand e-commerce in the country. Source link

Cuts come at a delicate moment for the US company, which has long been the leader in key areas of AI research. It follows a raft of layoffs in the tech sector recently. Source link

1 person has resigned and 3 were fired after the parent firm’s investigation showed some individuals had misused their authority to gain access to personal data. Source link

The app is ‘an enormous threat,’ said Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Mark Warner. ‘All of that data … is being stored somewhere in Beijing.’ Source link

Douyin’s 600 million daily active users will be able to link their accounts to Jinri Toutiao and shop within the popular news aggregation app. Source link

Hong Kong-based property firm Chinachem Group has bought the office building in London being leased by popular short video app TikTok for £158.5 million (US$182 million). Source link

Cook said Apple would donate to support relief efforts in the southwestern province, which was hit by an earthquake on Monday. Source link

The ByteDance School of Digital Economy Industry was established last week under a local vocational college in Longyan, Fujian province. Source link