What Is Byte, the App That Just Passed TikTok on App Store Charts?

As the political controversy surrounding TikTok‘s apparent connections to the Chinese government continues to heat up, three of the platform’s biggest stars — with a combined 37+ million followers on the platform — are revealing their plans to quit the app and move over to a rival!

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTikTok CEO Kevin Mayer is hitting back at Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, ahead of Zuckerberg’s appearance at a congressional hearing on Big Tech.The Facebook “attacks” on TikTok, which is owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, are “disguised as patriotism and designed to put an end to our very presence in the U.S.,” Mayer, who took over as CEO of TikTok in June after a long career at Disney, asserted in a blog post.Meanwhile, Mayer also took a swipe at

Amber Heard heads out to dinner with girlfriend Bianca Butti in London over the weekend.

Rebecca Davis editorChinese cinephiles are getting an early taste of what life may look under the continued reign of coronavirus: a series of sudden shutdowns with no clear end date in hotspots to contain the disease’s spread.China’s cinemas began to slowly reopen on Monday after nearly six months of coronavirus-imposed closures.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorSnap founder and CEO Evan Spiegel said it’s been really “interesting to watch the U.S.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorCrazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding will be the lead voiceover in Paramount Animation’s The Tiger’s Apprentice based on Lawrence Yep’s 2003 bestselling novel. The feature, currently schedule for a Feb.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerUPDATE: ESPN has suspended NBA star reporter without pay, according to reports, the result of an obscene message he tweeted in reply to US Senator Josh Hawley.Wojnarowski will not be in Orlando, Florida to cover the NBA restart of its pandemic-shortened season. The length of his suspension has not been revealed.Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, sent a mass letter criticizing NBA commissioner Adam Silver and the league’s relationship with China.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmazon, which has about 840,000 employees worldwide, has told company staff to delete TikTok from their phones because of security risks, Variety has confirmed.TikTok, the short-form video app owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance, should not be used on any device that can access Amazon’s email system, the company told employees in a memo Friday.

TikTok recent streak of bad news continued on Thursday after elite gamer and YouTuber Tyler "Ninja" Blevins tweeted that he had deleted the China-made app over privacy concerns. "I have deleted the TikTok app off all my devices.

recent talk of banning the app in the United States because of its China-controlled parent company, Sensor Tower found the U.S. was the country with the second-highest installs of TikTok in June — roughly 8.7%.

TikTok might not be accessible to United States users for much longer, as the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed that the country was looking at banning the app.

noted. Snap’s previous trading high was roughly $19 per share on February 3.TikTok, which established an office in Culver City this January, is owned by Beijing-based Bytedance — and has long raised alarms with national security and privacy experts for its ties to the Chinese government.In a Fox News interview on Monday, Pompeo said the administration was considering an outright ban on apps developed in China.

TikTok and other Chinese social media apps over national security concerns. His remarks come as India banned the app and Australia is considering it.  In an interview with Fox News Channel's Laura Ingraham, Pompeo said «we're certainly looking at it» when it comes to banning TikTok and other Chinese apps.«With respect to Chinese apps on people's cell phones, I can assure you the United States will get this one right too, Laura,» he said.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Chinese megastar Donnie Yen is set to star in and produce crime thriller Golden Empire, in which he will play a notorious drug kingpin who hits the top of the most wanted list for both the U.S. and Mexican governments.Yen will also produce the movie alongside Peter Luo, CEO at Starlight Media, which is lead financing alongside SA Inc.

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