Of all the things to remember 2020 by, you would never have considered hot chocolate bombs to be one. They emerged slowly to grab attention in October on TikTok and then were everywhere on social medi...

Next-gen gear After many years, two new gaming consoles arrived — the Xbox Series and PlayStation 5, hoping to keep gamers busy through a Covid-driven winter. While the Xbox Series looks more l...

The Indian parent of a TikTok copycat has raised more than $100 million from investors, including Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned i...

Is TikTok, the Chinese-owned social network that is used mostly by teenagers to post dance videos, a national security threat? Whether or not TikTok’s code has been doing something nefarious, th...

Millions of people have used the social media app TikTok to make and share short, fun videos. I am not one of them. As an older millennial, I have exclusively used Facebook’s Instagram to post p...

Soon after Satya Nadella took over as Microsoft CEO in 2014, the company bought videogame developer Mojang AB, owner of Minecraft, for $2.5 billion. Microsoft acquired GitHub, a popular code-reposi...

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he supported a deal in principle that would allow TikTok to continue to operate in the US, even as it appeared to conflict with his earlier order for China&r...

The Donald Trump administration said on Friday that it would bar the Chinese-owned mobile apps WeChat and TikTok from US app stores as of Sunday, striking a harsh blow against two popular services use...

As tensions between the US and China escalated, TikTok had become the flash point between Washington and Beijing over issues of technology and privacy concerns. The Trump administration had already b...

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