A ban on TikTok that was supposed to come into effect on Thursday night has been suspended by the US Commerce Department. The regulation would have prohibited downloading of the application in the US. The Commerce Department deferred the ban “pending further legal developments,” following a September Philadelphia court decision where three most popular TikTokers … Read more
A US judge has canceled the block on TikTok as he issued a temporary injunction. TikTok had faced being removed from Apple Store and Google Play at midnight in Washington DC. US-based users would be allowed to use the app, but they would not be able to re-download the app if they had deleted it … Read more
China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest its U.S.-based TikTok operations, Under the contract, Microsoft will take over U.S.-based user data management. In addition to Microsoft, the agreement allows another company to run TikTok in the United States. This would allow the service to continue to operate in the United States, deflecting President Trump ‘s alleged … Read more
