TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is on the hook to sell the app’s US operations by April 5, after President Donald Trump extended the deadline in January, or face a ban in the United States.

The DOJ says the app’s feed can be manipulated by the Chinese government for propaganda purposes, but Bytedance said that recommendations are actually generated in the US … The DOJ accusations ...

More than 10 days after TikTok operations were restored in the U.S., the popular social media app has yet to reappear on app stores. TikTok went dark for U.S. users for about 12 hours before ...

Apple and Google removed the app after the Supreme Court upheld a law prohibiting firms from doing business with TikTok as long as it is controlled by China-based ByteDance.

ByteDance has not disclosed the number of global or U.S. users on Lemon8, which is believed to be miniscule compared to its trend-setting sister app. Data from the research firm SimilarWeb ...

Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, spurred a creator economy with more than 700 million active users. The social media video app, owned by ByteDance has parental controls and even time limits.

The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline unless it sheds its ties to ByteDance, its China-based parent company.

TikTok quickly becomes most downloaded app. Yesterday evening, numerous ByteDance-owned apps unexpectedly returned to the ...

As TikTok heads to court on Monday to argue against a U.S. ban, parent company ByteDance’s newer social app, Lemon8, is once again surging to the top of the App Store in the U.S.The push is due ...

As the TikTok ban could take effect at the end of the week, short of Supreme Court intervention, another ByteDance-owned app has climbed the rankings in the Apple App Store: Lemon8. The app, which ...

The TikTok logo is pictured on a phone screen in front of a U.S. flag in this photo taken in Bath, England on January 15, 2025. TikTok said on Friday that it may be forced ...