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    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      China’s Baidu and ByteDance launch AI chatbots to public

      Beijing grants regulatory approval to artificial intelligence products by several tech groups

      A screen showing Baidu’s Ernie bot
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      China’s internet giants order $5bn of Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions

      Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba rush to acquire GPUs amid concern US will soon clamp down on their export

      Montage of Tencent, Baidu, Nvidia and Bytedance logos
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
      Under-21s targeted by money launderers, warns UK fraud agency

      Schools initiative to discourage youngsters from being used as ‘money mules’

    • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
      News in-depthTikTok Inc
      TikTok turns to south-east Asia to drive growth

      Viral app’s parent ByteDance targets large Indonesian market but faces growing regulatory scrutiny around the world

      TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew at an event in Jakarta on June 15
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      News in-depthTikTok Inc
      TikTok reshapes ecommerce unit in bid to crack western markets

      Chinese-owned group relocates executives in renewed push of livestream shopping in US and UK

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    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      FT Magazine
      TikTok spied on me. Why?

      The FT’s Cristina Criddle on discovering she’d been surveilled by the controversial social media company

    • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
      News in-depth
      Cottage industry of Chinese scammers target TikTok

      Parent company ByteDance struggles to police videos promoting dubious products such as ‘enzyme’ weight loss coffee

      Montage of TikTok logo and an influencer
    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      News in-depthTikTok Inc
      Dissenting politicians join young activists to oppose TikTok bans

      A small group of lawmakers from across the political divide speak out against restrictions to the Chinese-owned video app

      Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Matteo Salvini
    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
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      The TikTok divide

      Rupert Murdoch’s Fox agrees $787.5mn settlement in Dominion defamation case

    • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
      ByteDance posts record profit despite TikTok losses

      Booming 2022 helps it overtake China’s long-reigning tech giants Tencent and Alibaba for first time

      A woman walks by an advert of TikTok at an e-commerce expo in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province
    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      FT MagazineGillian Tett
      What the fight over TikTok really means

      The tussle over the viral app shows just how entwined American and Chinese business has become

    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      The Big Read
      The teen mental health crisis: a reckoning for Big Tech

      A growing body of evidence links a rise in depression in children to social media use. Will it lead to more regulation?

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    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      TikTok Inc
      TikTok chief faces hostile Congress in bid to fight off US ban

      Shou Zi Chew takes tough questions from legislators as China vows to oppose any forced sale

      TikTok chief Shou Zi Chew testifies before the US House energy and commerce committee
    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      TikTok Inc
      China says it ‘firmly opposes’ forced sale of TikTok

      Intervention by commerce ministry comes ahead of social media app chief’s appearance at US Congress

      Shou Zi Chew speaking to media
    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      News in-depthTikTok Inc
      TikTok caught in US-China battle over its powerful algorithm

      Chinese parent company ByteDance stuck between legal manoeuvres aimed at controlling video app’s future

      A montage showing the TikTok logo and two hands with the US and Chinese flags pulling on a rope
    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      TikTok Inc
      US prosecutors probe ByteDance’s use of TikTok to track journalists

      Chinese owner of popular app has come under increasing pressure over its use of data

      The TikTok logo on its offices in Culver City, California
    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      TikTok Inc
      TikTok faces potential US ban if Chinese owners do not sell stake

      ByteDance-owned video app has faced drumbeat of bipartisan opposition from Washington

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    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      TikTok Inc
      European Commission bans staff from using TikTok

      Employees told to uninstall Chinese-owned app from devices that use commission apps

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    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      News in-depthBig tech
      China moves to take ‘golden shares’ in Alibaba and Tencent units

      Beijing changes tack in its efforts to secure a firmer grip on the country’s tech giants

      Collection of logos of Chinese tech companies - Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance, Kuaishou, Bilibili and Weibo
    • Monday, 2 January, 2023
      TikTok Inc
      Lawmaker says sale of TikTok to US company could avoid outright ban

      Republican congressman says social media group is ‘addictive and destructive’

      Mike Gallagher
    • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
      TikTok Inc
      TikTok admits tracking FT journalist in leaks investigation

      Chinese parent ByteDance says its employees accessed user data to find sources of information to reporters

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    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      US-China relations
      US Senate votes to ban TikTok on government devices

      Lawmakers worry Chinese video app represents security threat

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    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC
      Baillie Gifford’s Scottish Mortgage cuts China exposure

      UK’s largest investment trust warns of ‘challenging’ environment and reduces stakes in Alibaba and Tencent

      A woman holds an umbrella as she walks past the offices of Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba in Beijing
    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      TikTok Inc
      TikTok slashes global revenue targets by at least $2bn

      Fast-growing social media platform cuts ambitious goals by 20% as some staff complain of lavish spending

      Shouzi Chew, chief executive officer of TikTok Inc
    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      News in-depthEcommerce
      Shein copycats chase its explosive growth

      Rivals seek to ride coattails of Chinese fast-fashion giant set to become world’s biggest specialist clothes seller

      A montage of the Temu and IfYooou platforms on smartphones and the Shein logo in front of Shein clothing on racks
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