Topic: tiktok ownership
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ByteDance's AI Creates Videos from Text, Images, Audio
ByteDance has launched Seedance 2.0, a multimodal AI model that generates short videos from a combination of text, images, video, and audio inputs, offering users significant creative control. The model improves video quality for complex scenes, produces clips up to 15 seconds with synchronized a...
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EU Regulators: TikTok's Infinite Scroll Is Too Addictive
EU regulators allege TikTok's core design, including infinite scroll and personalized algorithms, violates the Digital Services Act by promoting addictive behavior and harming user health. The investigation could lead to major fines and force TikTok to redesign features like its recommendation sy...
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UpScrolled Surpasses 2.5M Users, Founder Reveals
UpScrolled has rapidly grown to over 2.5 million users, a surge its founder attributes to shifts in the social media landscape and competitor changes. The platform positions itself as an inclusive hybrid of Instagram and X, promising not to shadowban users while openly criticizing major tech gian...
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Is TikTok's New Update a Threat?
A major technical outage at a key US data center partner disrupted TikTok's core functions for users and creators, coinciding with the formal launch of a new corporate entity partially owned by Oracle. The outage's timing fueled user suspicion and distrust, particularly due to Oracle leadership's...
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Sanders: Trump Deal Gives Ellison Control of TikTok Algorithm - But Is It True?
Senator Bernie Sanders claimed Larry Ellison would control TikTok's algorithm under the divestment law, but this oversimplifies the actual corporate structure where Oracle holds a minority stake and one board seat, while the algorithm is licensed from ByteDance. Sanders also inaccurately stated E...
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TikTok's Biggest Problems: What's Real vs. Fake News
A data center power outage, not censorship, caused the recent TikTok service disruptions, as confirmed by its US Data Security team. The outage disrupted core features like the For You page algorithm and basic posting functions, affecting all users and content types indiscriminately. The incident...
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UpScrolled Downloads Surge After TikTok US Takeover
TikTok's U.S. ownership restructuring, which reduced ByteDance's stake, has prompted user migration due to concerns over political bias and content moderation, benefiting alternative platforms. UpScrolled, a new social media app emphasizing user control and political neutrality, saw a massive sur...
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Adam Presser Appointed CEO of U.S.-Controlled TikTok Venture
A new joint venture led by Silver Lake, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi's MGX now controls TikTok's U.S. operations, directly addressing national security and data privacy concerns that had threatened a ban. The venture's leadership includes CEO Adam Presser, a longtime TikTok insider, and a governance boa...
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TikTok's New Owners: How Your Feed Will Change
A consortium including Silver Lake, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi's MGX has finalized a deal to create a new U.S.-based corporate entity for TikTok, installing a fresh team of American executives to lead it. For users, the app experience will remain seamless, but a key technical change involves retrainin...
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The US TikTok Deal: What You Need to Know
A deal has been signed to transfer a substantial portion of TikTok's U.S. operations to a consortium of American investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX, which will collectively hold a 45% stake. Oracle is designated as the trusted security partner, responsible for securing a new U.S. v...
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Trump Approves $14B TikTok Deal, Cedes 80% to US Investors
President Trump approved a $14 billion deal transferring 80% ownership of TikTok's U.S. operations to American investors, addressing national security concerns and ensuring the app's future in the country. The agreement reduces Chinese parent company ByteDance's stake to 19.9% and includes safegu...
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Larry Ellison: The Shadow President of Trump's America
Larry Ellison wields significant, low-profile influence as a "shadow president" in shaping America's second Trump term, operating with calculated subtlety from behind the scenes. Unlike other high-profile billionaires, Ellison's power stems from his foundational cloud and database businesses, all...
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Trump's TikTok Deal Under Fire as China Retains Algorithm Control
President Trump has extended the deadline to mid-December for ByteDance to divest its ownership stake in TikTok's U.S. operations, with negotiations ongoing for a U.S.-led investor group to take majority control. An investor consortium including Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz is set...
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