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...As potential acquirers circled, former Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday he was putting together a consortium to make a bid for the platform, although he did not provide financing details...
...TikTok said Kang was in the UK for a number of reasons and reports to the app’s chief executive Shou Zi Chew....
...Joshua Ma, who ran TikTok Shop in Europe, stepped down from his role after it was revealed he told staff that he “didn’t believe” in maternity leave but remains at the company....
...In 1985, Rupert Murdoch became a US citizen so he could own US media assets. So there is precedent to restricting foreign ownership of TikTok....
...When I last spoke to Shou, he said it would never get this bad.”...
...In January, Republican lawmakers grilled TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew over whether the group has ties to China, which he denied....
...Chief executive Shou Zi Chew travelled to the country in June, pledging to spend billions of dollars over the next five years....
...The hearing also featured testimony from X’s Linda Yaccarino, TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew, Snap’s Evan Spiegel and Discord’s Jason Citron....
...TikTok’s chief executive Shou Zi Chew has said publicly that the Chinese government has never asked TikTok for its data and that it would refuse such a request....
...Zuckerberg is set to appear at a Senate judiciary committee hearing in January on child safety online, alongside X’s chief executive Linda Yaccarino, Snap’s Evan Spiegel and TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew....
...But now, he said, there was only Xi. “No one is number two.”...
...According to an internal memo on Thursday, seen by the Financial Times, TikTok’s chief executive Shou Zi Chew told staff that Pappas had “decided to step down to refocus on their entrepreneurial passions...
...Far away from the tough scrutiny he faced in Washington, TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew was milking the crowd as he was feted at an event in Indonesia this month....
...Shou Zi Chew received a bipartisan pummelling from a congressional committee on Thursday that threatened to ban the Chinese-owned app, calling it a “cancer” and tool of surveillance....
...By 2017, the writer Jia Tolentino declared that personal essays were dead. In fact, they didn’t die. They just shifted medium to social media....
...Such was the potential that chief executive Shou Zi Chew in June travelled to the country and pledged to spend $10bn over the next five years....
...But the timing, he concedes, is uncertain....
...“This is called a monopoly,” he said. However, TikTok has not yet been granted an Indonesian payments licence; it currently relies on third-party payments services providers in the country....
...Its Prospect coffee table, for example, is made from reclaimed wood and treated using the Japanese technique of shou-sugi-ban, whereby the wood is flame-charred and blackened....
...But when speaking, he tends to be calm and considered....
...Shou looked assured as he replied: “First of all, I disagree with the characterisation that it is spying.” When pushed for a yes or no, he gave neither....
...Shou Zi Chew faced bruising questioning in Congress on Thursday over the social media app’s links to its Chinese parent company ByteDance....
...Jia-Jia Zhu is a former buyer for Bergdorf Goodman and Saks who founded her unpolished crystal jewellery line in 2020 following a year of meditation and self-discovery in Bali: a gift of crystals with the...
...Here’s TikTok chief executive, Shou Zi Chew. Shou Zi ChewOur approach has never been to dismiss or trivialise any of these concerns....
...In June, TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew vowed during a summit in Jakarta to “invest billions” in south-east Asia, its first and largest ecommerce market....
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