Apple Says It Was Ordered to Pull WhatsApp From China App Store

Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads from its China app offerings Friday on Beijing’s orders, amid technological tensions between the U.S. and China. Read More

TikTok China parent firm says no plans to sell app

TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance says it has no intention of selling the business after the US passed a law that will force it to sell the hugely popular video app or be banned in America. Read More

Apple was the real target of China’s App Store crackdown, Telegram founder argues

On Monday, Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov took to his Telegram channel to argue that Apple was the target of the Chinese government’s requests, not Telegram itself. Essentially, his spin on the ... Read More

China drafts rules on mobile apps’ collection of personal data

The set of draft rules published by the Cyberspace Administration of China covers 38 types of apps from online shopping and instant messaging to ride-hailing and bike sharing. Read More

How TikTok’s Chinese parent company will rely on an American right to keep the app alive

TikTok’s expected legal challenge to a law signed Wednesday by President Joe Biden forcing the popular app’s parent company to spin off its US operations could be a seminal moment in First Amendment ... Read More

Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from App Store in China

Apple has taken WhatsApp, Threads and others off the App Store in China ... Apple gave any detailed information on why the apps were no longer available, though the country blamed “national security ... Read More

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After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President ... has passed legislation that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media ... Read More

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The World Health Organization has asked China to provide information ... Yahoo News UK analyses the relative size of military capabilities from around the world. The UK is thought to be considering ... Read More