A deal between the U.S. and China over the ownership of TikTok includes new stipulations over who controls the social media company's algorithm, a closely guarded secret which has proved to be a major ...

TikTok’s algorithm and board of directors will be “controlled by America” as part of a deal reached with China earlier this week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Saturday, following ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...

Donald Trump signed an executive order finalizing a deal allowing TikTok to operate in the US, with a majority stake moving to US investors like Oracle and Silver Lake. ByteDance will retain less than ...

In sum: Chances for potential Chinese manipulation of US data would be much lower. Chances for yet another right-wing takeover of a super popular social media app just went up exponentially. There is ...

President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested Monday his administration has reached a deal with China about TikTok that could keep it online, as the app faced its latest threat ...

Christians on TikTok are weighing in on the rapture. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Kingdom Wealth/TikTok, Tilahun Desalegn/TikTok, romans.ten.9through11/TikTok) The rapture is here — that ...

A potential deal to reduce TikTok’s ties to China would give the app a new board with six American directors out of seven, the White House press secretary said. By Emmett Lindner The White House press ...

The deal comes after Trump delayed a TikTok ban enacted last year. President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an agreement that will pave the way for social media giant TikTok to come under the ...

The change is part of a deal to bring TikTok under U.S. ownership to avert a looming ban. By Emmett Lindner and Lauren Hirsch The software giant Oracle will oversee the security of Americans’ data and ...

Donald Trump’s much-touted call with Xi Jinping failed to finalize a long-awaited deal to spin off TikTok’s US operations, but China’s top leader did signal his blessing for the plan – as long as it ...

President Trump on Friday announced that the TikTok deal, which would potentially see the video platform controlled by a consortium of U.S. investors, had been approved by President Xi of China.