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TikTok says it's pulling out of the Hong Kong market in the wake of a controversial new security law that will require tech companies to hand over user data.

India has banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok claiming they pose a threat to Indians’ data privacy and secretly transfer data to servers outside India.

TikTok just had its best quarter as more people are tuning in than ever. But will the lack of ad monetization hamper its growth and popularity among creators?

TikTok Family Pairing is like a remote control for your teens' account settings, allowing parents to set restrictions on screen time and direct messaging.

YouTube is reportedly developing a new TikTok-like section that will live inside its main apps. Called Shorts, it will ofeature an endless feed of short videos.

The iOS app serves up 14 filters inspired by old film and TV effects. Free to download, an in-app purchase is required to unlock the full collection of looks.

TikTok's Charli D’Amelio attends the Prada show. YouTube's Emma Chamberlain vloggs for Louis Vuitton. Social media influencers are taking over Fashion Week.

Social media sites can be fun and silly but also grab all your data to keep you hooked. Some sites want to be a refuge from harassment but haven't caught on the way Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok have. Is there a way to be both popular and good?

To curb how much time younger people spend on TikTok, the app rolled out parental controls to allow parents to set how long their kids can use the video app. 

Instagram's dismissal of the IGTV button on its main app signals the video platform's growing troubles as competitors like TikTok continue to rise. IGTV, while trying to take on both TikTok and YouTube, has evolved into a confusing offering and pushed users to look elsewhere for their vertical content.

TikTok was downloaded more than 700 million times in 2019, beating Facebook and Messenger and behind only WhatsApp. The music video app's top market in terms of downloads was India, despite a brief ban in April, but most of its revenue was earned in China, the home market of owner Bytedance.

Security research firm, Check Point says it found multiple severe loopholes within short-form video app, TikTok that could have potentially allowed hackers to take over users’ accounts, access their private data, and upload videos on their behalf. The vulnerabilities have now been patched.

A decade of decline for camera sales was met by a cascade of creativity resulting from the rise of the smartphone and social media. It hasn't all been good, but photography remains a core component of human expression.

A new report Bytedance will announce a new music streaming app next month in a bunch of countries including India, Brazil, and Indonesia. The subscription will likely be paid, however, it will be priced competitively, and may undercut incumbents such as Spotify and Amazon Music.

A lawsuit has been filed in California against video social network TikTok, which claims the app collects user data and sends it to China, something the firm has denied in the past. Although owned by a Chinese company, TikTok says it operates independently, and stores U.S. user data on U.S. servers.

Instagram is capitalizing by the popularity of lip-syncing apps like TikTok and launching its own tool for music videos to Stories. Instagram Reels is a tool that allows users to record 15-second videos to music. The tool is first launching in Brazil today.

Editing a video for TikTok just got simpler. TikTok has launched an SDK that allows third-party apps to add a share to TikTok tool, opening up more possibilities for editing videos for the popular platform. The first apps to add the tool include Premiere Rush, Plotaverse, PicsArt, and more.

Bytedance, the company behind the TikTok video app, and South Korea's Kakao, which operates KakaoTalk, have both announced smartphones, restarting a dormant trend of social firms making hardware with quick access to their respective apps. Time has not been kind to these examples in the past, but that could change.

The U.S. government has launched a national security investigation into the popular app TikTok. The national security review is specifically looking into the China-based company’s acquisition of the app Musical.ly. TikTok purchased the company for $1 billion roughly two years ago.

TikTok has reportedly removed around two dozen accounts from its platform after they posted extremist propaganda in the app, specifically promoting the work of ISIS. Several of the accounts had reached over 1,000 followers before they were removed from the platform.

Instagram Threads only saw a small percentage of downloads in the first week -- so is the new app destined for failure? Data shows a small number of downloads as Threads joins Lasso in the list of Facebook's attempts to captivate Gen Z, both with slower growth than competing apps.

You’ll soon be able to look up the faces featured in a TikTok clip. The Bytedance-owned short-form video app is testing a new reverse-image search tool in China. In addition to items such as clothes, the feature will allow you to select a face and browse other videos the person it belongs to appears in.

TikTok is the free entertainment app that focuses on short, musical videos created by users. You can scroll through millions of videos uploaded by other users, or you can get creative and make your own videos. Here's how to use TikTok to make awesome videos, or to just get some laughs.

ByteDance the parent company of music-based social media network TikTok, has confirmed that it is developing its own smartphone. Details are still scarce, but it's likely that the device will put an emphasis on the TikTok social media network, instead of trying to compete with Samsung and Apple.

TikTok is under investigation in the U.K. for how it collects, handles, and uses the personal information of kids, following a similar action in the U.S. that resulted in a $5.7 million fine. The music video sharing app may be in violation of the European Union's data privacy laws.

ByteDance, the owner of popular short video app TikTok, is reportedly building its own smartphone. The selling point of such a device, which would contain pre-loaded apps, remains unclear, though a smartphone that will be somehow optimized for TikTok may find its niche.

Snap is in discussions with major record labels for broader licensing deals, according to the Wall Street Journal. The plan is to add more musical features to Snapchat, in order to better compete against the offerings of rival apps such as TikTok and Instagram that allow song clips to be added to posts.

TikTok's karaoke-like music videos are popular among youth, but the platform has been illegally collecting data from children. The app is now facing a $5.7 million fine from the FTC -- the largest one in the category yet -- for failing to get parental consent for children on the app.