Social media influencer MrBeast says he'd buy TikTok to keep it from being banned. Elon Musk reportedly is interested in buying the app as well.
The most significant change in prestige beauty's relationship with Amazon came in March when the Estée Lauder Cos. debuted Clinique on the platform.
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is required to sell the app to a U.S.-based buyer or face a nationwide ban.
“A few months ago I returned some stuff to Amazon, they refunded my money, everything was great. Fast forward three months, and all of a sudden, the money is getting taken out of my bank account again. They said that I didn’t send back the actual item that I sent something else back, which wasn’t true,” Azzolini explains.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew thanked Donald Trump for his commitment to "finding a solution" that keeps TikTok available in the U.S. after the ruling.
A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google.
Chinese merchants on TikTok are taking precautionary measures to prepare for a looming ban of the short-video app in the United States, including switching to competing platforms and focusing on other overseas markets.
The closures will eliminate about 1,700 permanent full-time jobs in the greater Montreal area, Amazon said. The warehouses also employ 250 temporary employees.
The platform is in need of saving in the United States, where approximately 170 million people have TikTok accounts. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law that will ban the platform on Jan. 19 unless TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance divests its U.S. operations.
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The high-profile names who could potentially buy TikTok following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law banning the platform in the US.
The company is one of the app’s leading server providers, managing the data centers where billions of 40-second videos are stored.