TikTok said it will exit the Hong Kong market within days, Reuters report said quoting a spokesman of the company as saying on late Monday. The development comes as other technology companies including Facebook have blocked the Hong Kong government from accessing user data in the region.

TikTok will exit Hong Kong market within days, says company spokesman

TikTok says it will stop offering its social video app in Hong Kong after the region adopted a new national security law granting expanded powers to the mainland Chinese government.

TikTok pulls out of Hong Kong due to new security law

Tik Tok has been removed from Apple's App Store and Google Play Store. The development comes after the Government of India banned 59 apps "which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, the security of the state and public order”.

Tik Tok removed from Apple's App store and Google Play after govt's ban

It is a popular belief that everything in this world can be used for good, or bad. Well, TikTok, video-sharing social networking service, proved this belief right.

K-Pop fans and TikTok users played Trump; hundreds of seats remain empty in Tulsa rally

Amid gloom, here's something that will put an instant smile on your face. Alfonso Cuaron, Anurag Kashyap, Nicolas Winding Refn and Harmony Korine are known for making impressive films.

Alfonso Cuaron, Anurag Kashyap win the Internet with hilarious cameos in their daughter's TikTok videos

TikTok's rankings in India had dropped down to 1.2 in the past few weeks due to a controversy about the content. However, after a cleanup drive by Google, the ratings are back to 4.

TikTok ratings soar high as Google cleans up anti-TikTok comments

A 60-year-old hearing and speech impaired man reunited with his family through the popular video-sharing app TikTok. The man went missing from Telangana two years ago, and was found in Punjab through a TikTok video.

Disabled man reunited with family after 2 years through TikTok

As the world practices social distancing, people en masse have taken to various online platforms to keep themselves engaged during lockdown. One such hike has benefitted Chinese company TikTok.

Ban TikTok trends as NCW demands removal of video that promotes violence against women

Life under lockdown can be tough, where you cannot go out. There is no school, no college and shopping malls are closed as are restaurants and clubs. You are locked indoors, but who said you cannot go places virtually?

Social media companies gain amid India lockdown

As Skull Breaker Challenge goes viral across the globe, experts ask parents to keep their children away from this fatal challenge. It is not the first time that such a challenge has surfaced on social media. MoMo Challenge, KiKi Challenge and the horrific Blue Whale Challenge were successful enough in influencing children to take up the challenge.

Skull Breaker Challenge: Keep your kids away from this dangerous challenge

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Tiktok are taking steps to address false information about the deadly coronavirus on them. They are taking measures to promote factual content and to prevent the widespread of misinformation.

Here's how social media apps are fighting misinformation surrounding coronavirus

India's proposed new privacy bill may require large social media platforms to offer an identity-verification option, a potentially precedent-setting effort to rein in the spread of "fake news", two government sources told Reuters on Thursday.

India may force social media platforms to offer identity-verification option

A California college student has accused popular video-sharing app TikTok in a class-action lawsuit of transferring private user data to servers in China, despite the company's assurances that it does not store personal data there.

TikTok accused of sending user data to China in California lawsuit

Yami Gautam is being praised for her breakthrough performance in the recently released film 'Bala'. Having been part of some massive blockbusters in the past including the 2019 superhit film 'Uri', the actress has had a great year at the movies.

Janhvi Kapoor’s compliments for ‘Bala’ made Yami Gautam sentimental

In another embarrassment for Pakistan, popular TikTok star Hareem Shah was seen inside a conference room at the foreign ministry office in a video that has gone viral on the Internet.

TikTok star Hareem Shah's video inside foreign office of Imran Khan goes viral on Internet

Social media app TikTok has taken down accounts that were posting propaganda videos for the Islamic State group, a company employee said Tuesday, in the latest scandal to hit the popular platform.

Social media app TikTok removes Islamic State propaganda videos

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday defended the huge social network's policy of refraining from fact-checking politicians, saying it's not the job of tech firms to "censor.

Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook's hands-off policy for politicians

Earlier, Madras HC had issued an Interim Order. Apple, Google asked to ban this application.

WION Wallet: Supreme court refuses to stay ban on Tik Tok

Snap Inc on Thursday launched a gaming platform within its Snapchat app featuring original and third-party games such as Zynga Inc's Tiny Royale, aiming to keep existing users engaged longer and attract new ones.

Snap adds games to Snapchat app to hold on to young users

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