Tag: Tik Tok

Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has discovered a vulnerability in the TikTok app for Android that can let hackers take over private, short-form videos of millions of users once they clicked on a malicious link.

Facebook's parent company Meta is also said to be prioritising short-video projects above other initiatives, likely due to increasing competition from popular short-form video app TikTok.

In June 2020, the Indian government banned the popular short-form video app TikTok amid border tensions with China.

New Delhi: A youth was allegedly shot dead by his friend when they posed with a pistol to film a video on Tik Tok, a poular mobile app, the police said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday night when the deceased, Salman, went for a drive to India Gate in a Hyundai Creta car […]

The Tik Tok trend has become a reason for concern for many, especially parents. Recently, a 14-year-old Mumbai girl left her home to meet her 16-year-old favourite Tik Tok star Riaz Afreen, who lives in Nepal, reported Dainik Jagran. Before leaving home, the girl reportedly wrote an emotional letter to her parents in which she […]

New Delhi: Chinese short video-making app TikTok on Tuesday refuted Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s claim that it was illegally collecting data and sending it to China. Speaking in the Lok Sabha during the Zero Hour on Monday, Tharoor said there were reports that the Chinese government received data from TikTok through the wholly state-owned China […]

New Delhi : A day after the Mumbai Police registered a complaint against a group of TikTok users for posting controversial videos related to the mob lynching of Muslim youth Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand, the Chinese short video-messaging app on Tuesday said it has removed the users from its platform. Shiv Sena activist Ramesh Solanki […]

San Francisco: With Facebook roping in former Google employee Jason Toff for a key portfolio, speculation is rife about the social networking giant preparing the launch of a serious competitor to the short video-sharing app TikTok. Toff, who earlier served as the General Manager for Twitter’s short-video sharing service Vine, has joined as Facebook’s Product […]

Mumbai: After playing a Tik Tok star in the film “Bala,” actress Yami Gautam is all set to make her debut on the social media video application, and she would like to recreate some iconic videos from the 90s. “It’s been a busy week and I have not been so gratified with my work in […]

Bhadrak: A case was registered against six inmates of a government quarantine centre in Bhadrak for violating COVID-19 social distancing norms by making a video and uploading on video-sharing social networking platform TikTok. As per reports, all the accused are Kolkata returnees who made the video during their quarantine period at Tihidi High School under […]

Washington: Technology giant Microsoft is in advance talks to acquire TikTok’s US operations, according to a media report Friday, even as President Donald Trump said his administration is considering to ban the popular Chinese-owned video app. “We’re looking at TikTok. We may be banning TikTok,” Trump told reporters at the White House. India has banned […]

New Delhi: After the departure of Tik Tok, Instagram Reels has become the most popular app for young Indians as 7 in 10 (18-29 age group) said they would like to use Reels as a platform for video sharing, a new report said on Tuesday. In the absence of the Chinese short-video-making app TikTok, nearly […]