Trump still wants TikTok off
Those pesky kids will not mock my rallies any more
President Donald Trump said on Thursday the deadline set for Chinese company ByteDance to sell its popular short-video app TikTok’s U.S. assets would not be extended.
Chinese might forbid TikTok sale
Claims US is trying to steal its tech
New export controls on technologies that Beijing deems sensitive are threatening to derail efforts by American companies to acquire TikTok's US operations from its Chinese parent company ByteDance.
Microsoft was not particularly interested in TikTok
It only wanted to buy enough to take the outfit off Google's Cloud
Software King of the World Microsoft was not particularly interested in TikTok until President Donald Trump made it part of his trade war with China, after Tik Tok users embarrassed him by stuffing up one of his election rallies.
Facebook lobbying might be behind the TikTok ban
Behind the scenes "lobbying"
Social notworking site Facebook spent a fortune "lobbying" US politicans to close down its rival TikTok.
Kids unhappy with TikTok bans
Apparently it has become the home of the teen left
While US President Donald Trump is trying to shut TikTok down, or hand over control to one of his chums, Daily Dot thinks the reason might not be China's spying at all but because the site has become a place for teen lefties to complain about their parent's right wing toxic beliefs.
Trump wants his mate Ellison to buy Tik-Tok
Is this what the whole thing was about?
US President Donald Trump has said tech giant Oracle would be "a great company" to take over TikTok's US operations.
Oracle fighting over Tik Tok now
Everyone wants a piece
Oracle has entered the race to acquire TikTok - the popular Chinese-owned short video app that President Donald Trump has vowed to shut down unless it is taken over by a US company by mid-November.
TikTok exploited Android bug to track users
Forgot to tell users
Social video app TikTok was using an extra layer of encryption to conceal a tactic for tracking Android users via the MAC address of their device, which skirted Google’s policies and did not allow users to opt out.
Trump bans US transactions WeChat and TikTok
China expected to strike back
US President Donald Trump has unveiled sweeping bans on US transactions with the Chinese owners of messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok.
Trump advisor wants Microsoft to pull out of China
They don't need it anyway
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro suggested Microsoft could divest its holdings in China if it buys the Chinese owned short-video app TikTok.