A Casualty in Trump’s China War: TikTok's Kevin Mayer

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThere’s a new sign the Chinese government is leaning toward spiking the deal to transfer control of TikTok from ByteDance to U.S. owners, including Oracle and Walmart.An editorial Wednesday in China Daily, the state-run newspaper of the Beijing regime, called the agreement to form TikTok Global — which was forced by an executive order by President Trump under the guise of protecting U.S.

TikTok will seemingly continue to operate in the US after President Donald Trump gave his “blessing” to a proposed deal that will see the video-sharing app partnering with Oracle.The app, along with WeChat, had previously faced a download ban after the US government said they were both  “active participants in China’s civil-military fusion” and alleged that they collect “vast swaths of data from users, including network activity, location data, and browsing and search histories.”But it will now

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorWeChat, the Chinese messaging app that was set to get effectively switched off for American users Sunday night, for now will still be available and operational in the U.S.A federal judge in San Francisco issued a ruling early Sunday issuing a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s order to ban the WeChat app, which is owned by China internet giant Tencent.Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, of the U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorOracle said it will take a 12.5% stake in the new TikTok Global, a U.S.-based entity formed from the Trump administration’s demand that the popular video app’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divest its U.S.

President Donald Trump is barreling ahead with his vanity project distraction tactic Gen Z revenge plot plan to ban TikTok.

TikTok and WeChat from Sunday (September 20), a statement from the Department of Commerce has confirmed.According to The Telegraph, the block comes as TikTok seeks approval from the US government for a deal with American computer corporation Oracle.The Trump government has forced TikTok to join forces with an American company to ensure that the hugely popular video app does not send user data to China.Announcing the download ban, the US government said that both apps were “active participants

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe complex wrangling over what happens next to TikTok — which has become a geopolitical football punted around by the Trump administration — continues apace.As a separate entity TikTok, the popular short-form video app, would file for an initial public offering on a U.S.

Ted Johnson Twitter slapped a “manipulated media” label on another video shared by Donald Trump, the latest instance of the platform warning of misleading or false information being spread by the president.The video that Trump shared, twice, featured Joe Biden in Florida on Tuesday. During the event, Biden started by playing, from his iPhone, Despacito by Fonsi.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson “Yeah, well, I didn’t downplay it,” Donald Trump told an ABC News’ town hall tonight of his response to the deadly coronavirus. “I actually, in many ways, I up-played it, in terms of action,” the incumbent added, citing his bans on some travel to and from China and Europe this spring.

if Trump was joking, he's fully aware of the ramifications of statements like these. After a recording of Trump praising Chinese President Xi Jinping's abolishment of presidential term limits in November 2019, Trump went on to clarify his statements. “I only joke,” he told Chuck Todd.

TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance has reportedly chosen Oracle as a “technology partner” for its US operations after Microsoft’s bid to buy the platform’s American branch was rejected.As reported by The Washington Post, two anonymous sources said that Oracle was chosen on Sunday (September 13) to be TikTok’s technology partner, and that the companies had brokered a deal to alleviate criticism brought on by the Trump administration.The sources said that TikTok recently put forward a

Jordan Moreau Microsoft’s bid to buy the U.S. operations of the Chinese video app TikTok was rejected on Sunday, the company announced.The tech giant was seen as a frontrunner to acquire the U.S.

South China Morning Post reports that the ByteDance board of directors wants to keep the site’s source code under its ownership, though a potential new owner for the site would be able to devise a new source code and sharing algorithm.

Reuters Friday.Reuters reported based on anonymous sourcing that “Chinese officials believe a forced sale would make both ByteDance and China appear weak in the face of pressure from Washington, the sources said.”President Trump previously took the unprecedented step of signing an executive order to ban TikTok from operating in the U.S. if ownership of the company’s U.S.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTwo apartments in Beijing that are home to movie star Jackie Chan are being forcibly put up for auction. The reason appears to be an ownership dispute.The adjacent apartments in a residential compound in the capital city’s Dongzhimen district are where Chan and his family have lived since 2007.

talent.” Calling a Colin Kaepernick a “son of a bitch” for is not a sign that your dad is a grouchy-but-sweet truth teller. It is a sign that your dad is a racist.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorWalmart stock is up more than 5% — a major move for the typically sleepy large-cap shares — on news that the retail giant is interested in teaming with Microsoft to make a bid for TikTok.Microsoft, along with Oracle and Twitter, has already been in the mix as a potential acquirer of the fast-growing social platform’s U.S. operations.Owned by ByteDance, a conglomerate founded by a Chinese entrepreneur, TikTok ran afoul of U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNeedless to say, this isn’t how Kevin Mayer expected his bold career move to go.Mayer, after just three months on the job as TikTok’s CEO and chief operating officer of Chinese parent company ByteDance, said Wednesday that he is resigning amid the tumultuous geopolitical climate battering TikTok — led by Donald Trump’s anti-China agenda — which ultimately will force ByteDance to sell the TikTok app business in the U.S. (and likely other countries).