Here are the main contenders seeking to acquire the app.

Several other ByteDance-owned apps went offline along with it, including the popular video editing app CapCut. With the app's fate now in limbo, many content creators have been left scrambling for ...

Alarms have raised alarms over the app's data privacy practices, fearing that user data collected by TikTok could be accessed by the Chinese government, given its parent company, ByteDance ...

Meta is testing a highly requested pause feature with a small group of users on Instagram Reels. The new feature is the ...

The social media platform TikTok can have a powerful influence on consumers, but the app has been on shaky grounds with the U ...

partly because of the legal limbo threatening hundreds of billions in fines if Trump changes his mind about enforcement. That means ByteDance currently can't push updates to US users, and anyone ...

Texas ordered a ban on the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on government devices days after the popular chatbot has shook investors and the tech community in recent weeks for its ability to compete with O ...

Despite that, TikTok — which has 170 million monthly American users — appears to be in a state of limbo. President-elect Donald Trump ... is for TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, to ...

TikTok is coming back for users after it shut down Saturday night. The ByteDance-owned company preemptively took the app offline in the U.S. just hours before the law banning the platform was ...

Despite Trump’s order temporarily suspending the ban on ByteDance apps ... leaving the legality of Trump’s order in limbo. If Trump’s order is not valid, it thus means that Apple and ...