Even Universal Music, whose artists' songs disappeared from TikTok in March as licensing talks stalled, has resumed negotiations in recent weeks, according to two people close to
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, insisted Friday that it had no intention of selling the video-sharing app despite the threat of a U.S. ban hanging over it.
Beijing-based ByteDance said in a post on Toutiao, a media platform it owns, that foreign-media reports that it is exploring the sale of TikTok “are untrue.”
The statement from ByteDance came after media reports that it was exploring options to sell TikTok without the algorithm that powers it. "Foreign media reports of ByteDance sellin
ByteDance has no plan to sell TikTok, the company's official account said in a statement posted on Toutiao, a media platform owned by the China-based firm. The Information earlier reported that ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling TikTok's U.
President Joe Biden signed into law a national security bill on Wednesday that would force TikTok to be sold by its owner, ByteDance, or face a possible ban in the United States. Minutes later, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew responded with a video posted to the platform,
The Biden administration has worked to distance itself from past ill-fated TikTok ban attempts. Legal scholars say its new law might be just as legally flawed.
Now that President Joe Biden has signed off on a law that could expel TikTok from the US market, Beijing must decide how best to retaliate over an attack on the world’s most-valuable start-up.
TikTok's chief executive said on Wednesday the social media company expects to win a legal challenge to block legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden that he said would ban its popular short video app used by 170 million Americans.
While the legislation would have profound impacts across the tech, political, entertainment, media and marketing worlds, music may be hit especially hard.
President Joe Biden’s campaign says it will continue to use its account on TikTok even after he signed legislation into law that forces its parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., to sell its stake or face a ban in US app stores.
President Joe Biden signed a hard-fought bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new U.S. aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia, notching a rare bipartisan victory for the president as he seeks reelection and ending months of wrangling with Republicans in Congress.
President Biden signed a foreign aid bill that includes a ban on TikTok in the US unless it divests from its Chinese owners. Here's why it's happening and how it affects you.
In India, the app was banned nearly four years ago. Here's what happened: Why did India ban TikTok? In June 2020, TikTok users in India bid goodbye to the app, which is operated b
The U.S. government set up a likely court showdown over the scope of TikTok's free speech protections under the U.S. Constitution after President Joe Biden signed legislation on Wednesday to ban the social media platform from app stores unless its Chinese owner sells it.
The passage of the bill resulted in a flood of comments from angry users on the president’s campaign TikTok videos. President Joe Biden, on Wednesday, signed into law a $95 billion national security package,
The TikTok legislation was included as part of a larger $95 billion package that provides foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel and was passed 79-18. It now goes to President Joe Bide
TikTok could be banned in the U.S. as soon as January 2025. Here’s what the new law means for users of the popular short-form video app. Did the TikTok Ban Bill Become a Law? Yes. On Wednesday, President Biden signed the TikTok bill into law.
Joe Biden's reelection campaign plans to continue using TikTok, a campaign official said on Wednesday, shortly after the U.S. president signed into law a bill that would ban the app if its Chinese owner fails to divest it.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew said Wednesday that the company would go to court to try to remain online in the United States. In a video posted on the app, Chew denounced a potential ban signed into law by President Joe Biden.
The U.S. Senate voted by a wide margin late Tuesday in favor of legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States if its owner, the Chinese tech firm ByteDance, fails to divest the popular short video app over the next nine months to a year.
The Senate voted to advance the $95 billion aid package that provides critical aid to Ukraine, Israel and Gaza and a provision to ban TikTok in the U.S.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation giving TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, about nine months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app, or face a nationwide ban. President Joe Biden said he will to sign the bill into law on Wednesday.
The bill that will force a sale or ban of TikTok in the United States is now law. President Joe Biden signed a package of foreign aid bills that included the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,
The Biden campaign will stay on TikTok, even after President Biden signed a bill into law that would force its China-based parent company to sell the video sharing social media platform or face a ban in the United States,
Joe Biden’s re-election campaign plans to continue using TikTok for at least the next year, despite the president signing a law on Wednesday that would ban the social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell it in that timeframe.
TikTok said legislation passed by the US Congress Tuesday evening that would force its Chinese parent company to sell its stake or face a total ban of the app in America is “unconstitutional,” and the company will challenge it in court.
As expected, TikTok said it will file a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S.’s legislation — signed into law Wednesday by President Biden — that will ban the app unless its Chinese parent company divests its ownership stake.