{"id":987443,"date":"2026-01-24T08:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987443"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:42:12","slug":"tiktok-reaches-deal-for-new-us-joint-venture-to-avoid-american-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/tiktok-reaches-deal-for-new-us-joint-venture-to-avoid-american-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok reaches deal for new US joint venture to avoid American ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: TikTok&#8217;s Chinese owner, \u200dByteDance, finalized a deal on Thursday \u2060to set up a majority American-owned joint venture company to avoid a U.S. \u200cban \u200con the popular social media app used \u200cby more than 200 million Americans. <\/p>\n<p>The deal is a milestone for the short video app after years of battles that began in August 2020, when \u200cPresident Donald \u200dTrump first tried unsuccessfully \u200dto ban the app over national \u200csecurity concerns. <\/p>\n<p>TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC will secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm through data privacy and cybersecurity measures, the company \u200dsaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: TikTok&#8217;s Chinese owner, \u200dByteDance, finalized a deal on Thursday \u2060to set up a majority American-owned joint venture company to avoid a U.S. \u200cban \u200con the popular social media app used \u200cby more than 200 million Americans. The deal is a milestone for the short video app after years of battles that began in August 2020, when \u200cPresident Donald \u200dTrump first tried unsuccessfully \u200dto ban the app over national \u200csecurity concerns. TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC will secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm through data privacy and cybersecurity measures, the company \u200dsaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}