America's TikTok ban came five years after India blocked the app, citing security reasons. India had said that TikTok, along with 58 other Chinese apps, posed a threat to sovereignty and security of the country.
TikTok fans in the U.S. are racing to secure alternatives and safeguard their digital empires ahead of a looming shutdown, evoking the chaos of India's 2020 ban that erased the app from the lives of 200 million users overnight.
TikTok’s ban marooned over 170 million monthly users who made the wildly addictive short-form video app a central part of their daily lives.
Trump says an announcement will probably come once he takes office on Monday about the app's future in the US.
TikTok’s time in the United States is counting down. But Washington is only the latest government to impose restrictions on the video app.
When India banned TikTok in June 2020, Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube gained big time. Will it be the same with the US suspension?
If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time.
The Chinese-owned company said it would cut off its services unless the U.S. assures Apple, Google and other companies that they would not be punished for hosting and distributing TikTok.
I was worried about the TikTok ban in the US because my daughter is a heavy user. During a trip to India, where the app is banned, she learned something.
The new structure proposed by Perplexity would allow for most of ByteDance's existing investors to retain their equity stakes and would bring more video to Perplexity, the report said, citing an unnamed source familiar with the situation.
Supreme Court of The United States of America rejected the appeal to withdraw the ban on the Chinese app, TikTok.