While TikTok remains hugely popular in Brazil, Indonesia and other markets, its 170 million users in the United States are its most valuable.
The looming TikTok ban presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google – as well as other Big Tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon that count its Chinese parent company ByteDance as a business partner.
A current law in place requires the video-sharing app to be sold by Jan. 19, otherwise it will be shut down. It could. Last April, a law passed by Congress and signed by President Biden set the deadline for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell off its United States operation, or the app would be banned across America.
The Chinese apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8 rose into the top spots on the Apple app store as TikTok faces the prospect of a US ban.
Noel Francisco, representing TikTok and ByteDance, argued that Supreme Court ... really worried about these very dramatic risks leave out an e-commerce site like Temu that has 70 million ...
TikTok Shop’s geographic expansion south of the US shows the undeterred response of social-media giant ByteDance to Washington’s “sell-or-ban” law. TikTok and Beijing-based ByteDance have challenged the federal law requiring the popular short-video ...
As the fate of widely popular short-form video app TikTok hangs in the balance this week, creators, users and social media experts lament the cultural and economic losses U.S. users could experience if the app is banned this weekend.
The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Jan. 19 unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company, ByteDance.
As the United States inches closer to a potential ban on TikTok, millions of American users are exploring alternatives, with RedNote emerging as a frontrunner. Known as Xiaohongshu, or 'Little Red Book',
Tencent Holdings' super-app WeChat was removed from a list of "notorious" sellers of counterfeit goods by the US trade office, days after the defence department designated the tech giant as a "Chinese military company".
Chinese users of Shanghai-based RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, welcome American arrivals to the platform.
Simran Singh has been elevated to the role of Director of Sales for E-commerce & Retail at Spotify. The news has been shared by Singh through a LinkedIn update. Simran Singh was earlier Director of Sales.