Two Republican members of Missouri’s congressional delegation are deferring to President Trump on what to do about TikTok. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has been working for years to get the app banned in the United States because it’s owned by ByteDance,

The human dancing videos and the cat dancing videos on TikTok have nothing on the dancing by politicians who voted for the law forcing its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to either sell the popular and

ByteDance, completes a divestiture that ends any operational or ownership ties to the Chinese government. The deadline for compliance was Jan. 19, 2025. The law was passed based on a concern that ...

The United States Supreme Court upheld a law on Friday that will force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or face a ban. However, the future of the platform is still unclear. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) praised the court's decision,

U.S. officials have long feared that the widely popular short-form video app could be used as a vehicle for espionage.

Perplexity AI submitted a revised merger proposal to TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance as the popular video-sharing app stares down a national ban, according to multiple reports. Under the new ...

That puts Cleaver on the same side as his state legislative mate, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley. Hawley, Missouri’s senior Republican senator, led a bipartisan move in the Senate last year and has ...

U.S. search engine startup Perplexity AI submitted a bid on Saturday to TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance for Perplexity to merge with TikTok U.S., a source familiar with the company's plans ...

TikTok was banned and restored within the same weekend. Find out what other apps owned by ByteDance, are in limbo below. Why Was TikTok Banned in the U.S.? TikTok was banned in the U.S. due to ...

This week the U.S. tech sector was routed by the Chinese launch of DeepSeek, and Sen. Josh Hawley is putting forth legislation to prevent that from happening again.

The revised proposal allows for a new structure merging Perplexity AI and TikTok's U.S. business. The U.S. government could acquire up to a 50 percent nonvoting stake after a public offering valued at $300 billion or more. ByteDance would maintain equity in the new entity but cede control to a U.S. board.

TikTok held firm and refused to be sold, Congress blinked, and now everyone is scrambling to avoid a backlash from its younger user base.