He wrote that the “unfortunate timing” of the TikTok ban’s Jan. 19 effective date — which makes it illegal to distribute the app in the U.S., because Chinese parent ByteDance has not ...

Fox Business has learned that top GOP Senators, including Tom Cotton (R-NE), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Tom Tillis (R-NC), and Rick Scott (R-FL ... s parent company, ByteDance, to acquire the ...

But Apple said it decided to pull TikTok and other ByteDance-owned apps anyway because ... Similarly, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told reporters that U.S. app store providers like Google and Apple ...

Google and Apple removed the app from their digital stores to comply with a federal law that required them to do so if TikTok parent company ByteDance didn’t sell its U.S. operation by Sunday. The law ...

TikTok and ByteDance challenged the law on First Amendment grounds, but the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the ban on Friday, citing national security interests as outweighing free speech ...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told reporters that U.S. app store providers like Google and Apple “need to comply with the law” and stop hosting the app. Beijing-based ByteDance has said it would ...

Several parties have expressed interest in buying the platform, but ByteDance has repeatedly said it does not plan to sell. Experts have also noted the Chinese government is unlikely to approve a ...

Factor in America-China business relations, the fact the Chinese government owns part of ByteDance, the complicated ownership structure surrounding TikTok itself and plenty more besides ...

NEW YORK — Disappointment, denial and confusion flooded U.S. TikTok on Wednesday upon hearing the news that Chinese owner ByteDance planned to shut off the app for its 170 million US users by Sunday, ...

While the April 2024 law technically only mandates blocking new downloads and certain support services, TikTok owner ByteDance appears to be planning what industry analysts are calling the nuclear ...