TikTok was the third most-downloaded app in Pakistan over the past 12 months, behind WhatsApp and Facebook

The law, which will apply to all companies in China will take effect on December 1

TikTok's parent company ByteDance regretted that its services remain suspended in Pakistan more than a week after the country's telecommunication authority banned it

Triller, which was launched in 2015 and only has a fraction of the 100 million users that TikTok boasts in the United States

TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, has become hugely popular in a short period of time by encouraging young users to post brief videos

The Trump administration has ordered download blocks on the two mobile apps and ordered ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, to sell its operations to a U.S. company, citing national security concerns

A decision on whether to proceed with a formal investigation may come as soon as October and could be affected by the state of China's relationship with the United States

A federal court judge in the US granted a reprieve to the TikTok app. Last week a California judge delayed restrictions to ban WeChat from the US.

The unnamed author of an op-ed in the paper here argues that the U.S' dominance of the global semiconductor industry supply chain is a \"fundamental threat\" to China

U.S. officials have expressed national security concerns that personal data collected on 100 million Americans who use the app could be obtained by China's Communist Party government

Trump's decision to approve a potential deal involving US companies taking a greater ownership share of TikTok will depend on the safety issue

Last week TikTok got an extension till September 27 from the app getting banned in the US.

The application comes about a month after China revised its list of technologies subject to export bans or restriction for the first time in 12 years, in a manner which experts said gave the government a say over any TikTok deal

The deal-making process started with world's biggest social media platform, Facebook Inc, pumping in a record Rs 43,574 crore for 9.9 per cent stake in RIL subsidiary Jio Platforms Ltd (JPL) on April 22, making it the largest minority shareholder in RIL

If TikTok operated at anywhere near the efficiency of other internet companies such as Twitter, TikTok would need to generate up to 19 times more revenue over the next few years

TikTok removed over 3.7 crore videos for content violation in the first six months of 2020, according to the company's latest transparency report. Globally, TikTok removed 10,45,43,719 videos from its platform in the same duration

China's government has largely refrained from directly commenting on the deal's details, though its foreign ministry has repeatedly said the United States should offer a fair and non-discriminatory environment for foreign companies

Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 14 giving ByteDance 90 days to sell TikTok, amid concerns that the personal data of as many as 100 million Americans that use the app could be passed on to China's Communist Party government

The US government has now delayed the ban on the Bytedance-owned short video app by a week until September 27.

The US government on Friday announced that it will ban on TikTok and WeChat from app stores this Sunday.