Other potential buyers include the philanthropist Frank Mccourt ’s Project Liberty, which is raising capital to make a bid for TikTok in order to “rearchitect the platform” and protect user data.

TikTok, known for its viral trends and large user base, has been effectively banned in the U.S. following a Supreme Court ruling. The app had become a cultural force, influencing industries like ...

U.S. search engine startup Perplexity AI submitted a bid on Saturday to TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance for Perplexity ... open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok Perplexity AI ...

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 ...

The app is set to be yanked from US app stores on January 19, after the Supreme Court ruled to uphold a law on Friday forcing China-based ByteDance to divest its ownership of Tiktok or face a ban.

Factor in America-China business relations, the fact the Chinese government owns part of ByteDance, the complicated ownership structure surrounding TikTok itself and plenty more besides ...

The short-form video app TikTok may go dark for American users this week, but it may not be the only platform made unavailable in the U.S. But TikTok isn't the only platform that ByteDance created ...

NEW YORK — Disappointment, denial and confusion flooded U.S. TikTok on Wednesday upon hearing the news that Chinese owner ByteDance planned to shut off the app for its 170 million US users by Sunday, ...