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• U.S. Army Bans TikTok On Government Phones, Calling App A “Cyber Threat”
• TikTok Inks Deal With WWE For 30 New Wrestler Accounts, Entrance Music Licensing

  WWE is body-slamming onto TikTok today, with a new pact that will see the wrestling media purveyor -- which counts 1 billion followers across all of its social channels globally -- launch various new channels on the Bytedance-owned, short-form video app.

  
• TikTok’s Parent Company Piloting Spotify Competitor ‘Resso’ In Emerging Markets

  TikTok's parent company, the Chinese internet giant Bytedance, is readying what it hopes will be a sophomore smash -- a music subscription service called Resso that would compete with the likes of Spotify and Apple Music on the global stage.

  
• The U.S. Government Is Investigating TikTok Parent Bytedance As A Potential National Security Threat (Report)

  The U.S. government has reportedly opened a national security investigation into TikTok’s parent company, China-based Bytedance, and its 2017, $800 million acquisition of competitor app Musical.ly.

  
• TikTok Says It No Longer Uses Guidelines That Could Censor Content Criticizing Chinese Government
• Bytedance Confirms It’s Developing A Smartphone, But Says That’s Not Because Of TikTok
• Chinese Media Execs Descend On VidCon For First ‘East-West Forum’ To Woo U.S. Creators
• TikTok Is A Mostly Untapped Space For Western Ecommerce — But Chinese Companies Are Using It To Make Millions
• Chinese Tech Giant Alibaba Invests $100 Million Into TikTok Competitor ‘VMate’
• TikTok Parent Company Bytedance Will Launch Paid Music Streaming Service This Fall (Report)
• TikTok To Join Instagram, Snapchat In The Realm Of Geolocation Filters Following GeoGif Acquisition
• TikTok Parent Company Bytedance Fined $5.7 Million For Illegally Collecting Personal Information From Users Under 13