TikTok’s general counsel is stepping down to focus on fighting a pending U.S. ban. Erich Andersen, who is also general counsel for TikTok parent ByteDance, will leave that role in June and become special counsel to the company, according to an announcement Friday (April 26), two days after a...
The former CEO of Barclays is now chairing TikTok challenger Triller. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday (April 27), Bob Diamond has been chairing Triller owner AGBA since September and will serve in that capacity at the video-and-music-focused social media startup as well. According to the report, Triller claims to...
G.R.W.M. (that’s “get ready with me”) for a major change in the social commerce landscape, because the pending TikTok ban in the United States could be make-or-break for all the brands that have built their following on the platform. TikTok has become a powerful force for brands trying...
TikTok owner ByteDance would reportedly rather shut down the social media platform than sell it. That’s what the firm plans to do if it is unsuccessful in its legal efforts to fight legislation that would ban TikTok from app stores in the United States if it is not...
April 24, 2024
The clock is running out on TikTok’s U.S. ambitions. President Joe Biden on Wednesday (April 24) signed a bipartisan measure that gives TikTok’s owner, Chinese tech giant ByteDance, nine months to a year to sell the video-sharing social media platform or see it banned in the U.S. Biden’s action followed the measure’s passage in the […]
May 07, 2024
TikTok and its parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit Tuesday (May 7) asking the court to review the constitutionality of a law that requires ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. business or have it shut down. “That law — the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (“the Act”) — is unconstitutional,” the companies said in the lawsuit, according […]
April 28, 2024
TikTok’s general counsel is stepping down to focus on fighting a pending U.S. ban. Erich Andersen, who is also general counsel for TikTok parent ByteDance, will leave that role in June and...
April 28, 2024
The former CEO of Barclays is now chairing TikTok challenger Triller. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday (April 27), Bob Diamond has been chairing Triller owner AGBA since September and will serve in that...
April 25, 2024
TikTok owner ByteDance would reportedly rather shut down the social media platform than sell it. That’s what the firm plans to do if it is unsuccessful in its legal efforts to fight legislation...