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Russia's communications regulator has demanded TikTok stop including military-related content in recommended posts for minors, in an announcement shared in its official Telegram channel. The regulator Roskomnadzor said it had identified content on the video-sharing...

Alphabet Inc has beaten fourth-quarter sales expectations as the search giant's internet advertising, cloud computing and hardware businesses benefited from holiday shopping, sending shares up more than 7% in after-hours trading. The results were the...

China has said it will put in force new rules to increase its oversight of plans by Chinese platform businesses to list on overseas stock markets in the latest move to tighten its grip...

For more than a decade, Alibaba Group has been China's undisputed e-commerce king but of late its crown has shown signs of slipping, unsettled by an influx of aggressive competitors into the sector. This week,...

ByteDance's Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, said it had received a request from Tencent to allow short videos, based on Tencent's copyrighted films and TV shows, to be shown on Douyin. Tencent's move meets...

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has stepped down as chair of the company, after saying in May he would step down as CEO, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told journalists, in the...

An executive at TikTok faced tough questions during the video-sharing app's first appearance at a US congressional hearing, saying it does not give information to the Chinese government and has sought to safeguard US...

Chinese short video app Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, said that all of its authenticated users below the age of 14 will now access the app in a "youth mode", in its push...

TikTok's lead data privacy regulator in the EU has opened two inquiries into the Chinese-owned short-video platform related to the processing of children's personal data and transfers of personal data to China. Ireland's Data Protection...

TikTok's lead data privacy regulator in the EU has opened two inquiries into the Chinese-owned short-video platform related to the processing of children's personal data and transfers of personal data to China. Ireland's Data Protection...

China fired a fresh regulatory shot at its tech giants, telling them to end a long-standing practice of blocking each other's links on their sites or face consequences. The comments, made by the Ministry of...

China's industry ministry has told technology companies including Alibaba and Tencent to stop blocking each other's website links from their platforms, the 21st Century Business Herald has said. The newspaper, citing unnamed sources, said the...