The popular social media platform has started to invite merchants for a beta run of TikTok Shop in Mexico, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Further restrictions on access to Intel and Qualcomm chips would pose challenges to Huawei’s PC business, which has been gaining ground in the China market.
Xinhua, China Daily and others ran articles on Wednesday supporting TikTok and ByteDance’s lawsuit against the US government.
Alat CEO Amit Midha said the only request so far has been to keep supply chains separate, but it would divest if asked because the ‘US is the number one partner for us’.
Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google, said he had explored a possible purchase of TikTok, but has moved on from the idea of trying to acquire the video-sharing app from its Chinese owners.
The move comes after the tech giant released its first AI-enabled laptop, powered by a new Intel processor.
Lemon8 has been the most downloaded lifestyle app on Apple ’s App Store in the US since April 7, ahead of Pinterest and dating platform Tinder.
In the face of a potential ban of TikTok in the US, Chinese merchants selling on the platform are preparing for the worst.
US lawyers representing young people and their families allege that the overseas version of TikTok protects children in China in ways that the US version does not.
Huawei’s recognition as an accredited lab expired on Tuesday and its request for an extension of its recognition was denied by US authorities.
The leadership reshuffle at Huawei’s consumer business group comes as the company regains lost ground in China’s smartphone market and doubles down on electric vehicle systems.
Several Chinese online media outlets falsely reported that a Tokyo-based research firm found more than 90 per cent of the handset’s parts to be domestically sourced.
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies is eyeing opportunities in digital and artificial intelligence transformation to regain ground in Asia-Pacific, according to its deputy chairwoman Meng Wanzhou.
King Yuan Electronics Co, one of the world’s largest chip testing and packaging services firms, has divested its entire stake in a subsidiary at manufacturing hub Suzhou in eastern China.
The city’s focus on China-made graphics processing units shows how mainland authorities are scrambling to build up computing resources, despite US export restrictions on advanced chips.
The privately held social media giant has rejected a report that said it was ‘exploring scenarios’ to sell a majority stake in TikTok’s US operations.
The FCC has cited national security concerns in revoking or denying Chinese companies’ rights to provide US telecoms services.
ByteDance-owned TikTok is set to pursue legal action challenging the constitutionality of the measure, which US President Joe Biden has signed into law.
The open-source technology, which can be used to build smartphone chips and advanced processors, is being used by major Chinese tech firms.
The country remains the US tech giant’s main manufacturing base, home to over a third of the factories run by its disclosed suppliers.
Among the buyers were the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shandong Artificial Intelligence Institute, the Hubei Earthquake Administration and a state-run aviation research centre.