Two Republican members of Missouri’s congressional delegation are deferring to President Trump on what to do about TikTok. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has been working for years to get the app banned in the United States because it’s owned by ByteDance,

The human dancing videos and the cat dancing videos on TikTok have nothing on the dancing by politicians who voted for the law forcing its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to either sell the popular and

U.S. officials have long feared that the widely popular short-form video app could be used as a vehicle for espionage.

The United States Supreme Court upheld a law on Friday that will force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or face a ban. However, the future of the platform is still unclear. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) praised the court's decision,

A major shareholder of ByteDance, the Beijing-based owner of TikTok, said Wednesday he was confident that a deal will be reached to ensure the video-sharing app stays online in the US — and ...

Social-media giant ByteDance, China's most valuable unicorn, on Thursday unveiled its Seed Edge initiative, a long-term artificial intelligence (AI) research programme that is expected to shore up the TikTok owner's efforts in the fast-developing technology.

U.S. search engine startup Perplexity AI submitted a bid on Saturday to TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance for Perplexity to merge with TikTok U.S., a source familiar with the company's plans ...

TikTok was banned and restored within the same weekend. Find out what other apps owned by ByteDance, are in limbo below. Why Was TikTok Banned in the U.S.? TikTok was banned in the U.S. due to ...

The TikTok ban was supposed to be a critical national security response to the threat posed by the Chinese government and its control over an app with 170 million users in our country. Shortly before the law went into effect,

Founded in 2012, ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company behind the apps TikTok, its Chinese counterpart Douyin, and news platform Toutiao. It also owns the video game developers and publishers Moonton Games and Nuverse, and the enterprise ...

16, 2019 in San Francisco. Perplexity AI submitted an offer to ByteDance to merge the company with TikTok and New Capital Partners, in a deal that would allow for most of ByteDance’s investors ...

TikTok held firm and refused to be sold, Congress blinked, and now everyone is scrambling to avoid a backlash from its younger user base.