TikTok

TikTok has made its way back to the Apple and Google app stores as of Thursday evening. The popular social media platform, which had been temporarily unavailable, is now once again accessible to millions of users worldwide. The…

In an attempt to get around restrictions on the well-known platform in the US, TikTok announced on Friday that it was enabling Android users in the US to download and connect to the short video app using package kits on its website.…

On 27 January 2025, President Donald Trump announced that Microsoft is in discussions to acquire TikTok, the popular video-sharing platform owned by China’s ByteDance. He expressed a desire to see a "bidding war" over the app, suggesting…

The US search engine startup Perplexity AI has made changes to the merger proposal it sent to ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, to form a new company that would combine Perplexity and TikTok US. The plan calls for the US…

The United States President-elect, Donald Trump, has announced his intention for the Chinese-owned short-form video app TikTok to be at least 50% owned by U.S. investors. He made this declaration during a rally in Washington on Sunday, a…

On Sunday, TikTok declared that it was "in the process of restoring service," but the app is still not accessible on Google Play or the App Store. While Google Play states that "downloads for this app are paused due to current US legal…

According to a ruling by the US Supreme Court, TikTok should be outlawed in the US by Sunday if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, does not sell it. President Donald Trump will have the last say on what to do when his term starts on…

Malaysia has granted operating licences to Tencent's WeChat and ByteDance's TikTok under a new social media law aimed at combating cybercrime. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) announced that platforms with…

Venezuela's Supreme Court has imposed a $10 million fine on TikTok for allegedly failing to prevent viral video challenges that authorities claim led to the deaths of three children. In a ruling delivered on Monday, the court ordered…

President-elect Donald Trump has requested that the U.S. Supreme Court delay implementing a law requiring TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the platform by 19 January 2025 or face a ban. The law, enacted over national security…