Kevin O’Leary’s $20B TikTok offer is rejected as ByteDance confirms it won’t sell the key technology behind the app’s success.

President-elect Donald Trump says he “most likely” will give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to avoid a U.S. ban

The Supreme Court seemed to lean Thursday toward upholding a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off TikTok, with all nine justices indicating national security concerns posed by the social media app outweighed potential threats to free speech.

McCourt wants to build a decentralized version of the internet where individual users, rather than tech companies, own the reams of data spawned by their online lives.

A change to China’s export rules could give Beijing sign off on any deal that would force the internet giant ByteDance to give up TikTok.

American billionaire wants to buy TikTok - but not its ‘highly addictive algorithm’ - Elon Musk was recently linked with buying the US arm of ByteDance’s flagship app but those reports were quickly di

The supremely popular TikTok could be banned on Jan. 19 under a federal law that forces the video sharing platform to divest itself from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or shut down its U.S.

With a TikTok ban scheduled to go into effect in the United States on Sunday, many users began to see messages preventing them from using the app when they opened it after 10 p.m. Eastern on Saturday.

Challenges came in tandem with TikTok’s success. U.S. officials expressed concerns about the company’s roots and ownership, pointing to laws in China that require Chinese companies to hand over data requested by the government. Another concern became the proprietary algorithm that populates what users see on the app.

On Friday, the United States Supreme Court finished debates on whether or not to uphold the incoming ban on a popular social media platform.

The looming TikTok ban in the United States has left millions of users and creators uncertain about the platform's future, as debates over national security and ownership intensify.

App goes offline with message saying it’s ‘temporarily unavailable’ but suggests Trump could save it - TikTok said the Biden administration must give the likes of Google and Apple reassurances that they won’t be punished,