News TikTok Agrees to Pay $92 Million to Settle Lawsuit Alleging Data Theft March 3rd, 2021 China based video-sharing social network platform Tiktok agreed to pay $92 million to settle a lawsuit alleging its app captured users’ Biometric and Private Data.
FUNDING Reface secures $5.5M in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz December 9th, 2020 AI video and GIF face-swaps app Reface raises $5.5 million in the seed round from Andreessen Horowitz and others.
News Pakistan unblock TikTok after it vows to moderate content October 19th, 2020 The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority decided to unblock video-sharing app TikTok.
ACQUISITION Oracle acquire TikTok US, Microsoft bid rejected September 15th, 2020 Tiktok selects Oracle over Microsoft to be its technology partner for American operations.
News Walmart joins Microsoft bid to acquire video app TikTok August 28th, 2020 Walmart made a joint acquisition bid with Microsoft to acquire TikTok US business.
USA TikTok sues US President Trump over banning its app August 25th, 2020 TikTok suing Trump administration for banning its app service in USA over national-security concerns.
USA Microsoft in talks to acquire TikTok, Trump considers ''banning'' app in US August 1st, 2020 Trump administration will soon order ByteDance to stop or divest its ownership of TikTok's US operations.
BUSINESS TikTok pledges USD 250 mn for COVID-19 Relief April 9th, 2020 TikTok, a popular short video making app will contribute $250 million to coronavirus relief around the world.
News Google blocks TikTok app in India, Apple still running it April 17th, 2019 Google removed TikTok app in India
