At least three of Bytedance Ltd.’s major investors have marked up the TikTok-owner’s valuation to more than $400 billion, a ...

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, wants to take a step forward in the field of AI by hiring a veteran Google AI ...

For unknown reasons, that protection is globally disabled in the app, NowSecure said. What’s more, the data is sent to servers that are controlled by ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok.

b) The app uses the ByteDance-run Volcano Engine, so of course it communicates with ByteDance-operated servers. This is equivalent to an app using Azure or AWS, but the DeepSeek devs chose to use ...

found that using the app could result in the insecure transmission of sensitive data, which could be read by third-party companies such as ByteDance, and warned companies and institutions to ...

This distrust is fueled by memories of Trump’s last year in office, when he put China on its heels by abruptly attempting to shut down the app. ByteDance, too, has few incentives to participate ...

TikTok has had a wild start to 2025. The app was banned in the United States, went dark, then came back online. New users can't download it, since the app hasn't returned to U.S. app stores, but ...

Apple allows "Marvel Snap" to return to the App Store, presumably thanks to new publishing arrangements that gets the game away from the still-banned ByteDance. Just days after was initially ...

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has launched a new version of its popular AI app, Doubao, which is the leading consumer-facing AI tool in China. The updated version, called Doubao 1.5 Pro ...

TikTok is considering alternative solutions to selling its US business, as owner ByteDance continues the fight to keep its 170 million American users after a reprieve from the Trump administration ...

ByteDance is still fighting to save TikTok in the US after the app temporarily went dark there last weekend in response to a law that requires US firms to stop hosting ByteDance services unless ...

Unlike domestic peers, ByteDance has created overseas counterparts for its biggest apps - internationally, Doubao is called Cici and Jimeng is Dreamina. On Wednesday, ByteDance updated its ...