People are listing phones preloaded with TikTok on eBay, Facebook marketplace, and other online storefronts. View on euronews

TikTok is no longer available in the United States —at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users.

While TikTok remains hugely popular in Brazil, Indonesia and other markets, its 170 million users in the United States are its most valuable.

TikTok ban timeline: How did we get here and what happens next? Other platforms tried to emulate the app. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, launched its own version of TikTok, Reels, in 2020. So did Snap Inc., parent company to Snapchat. YouTube followed ...

TikTok has had a wild start to 2025. The app was banned in the United States, went dark, then came back online. New users can't download it, since the app hasn't returned to U.S. app stores, but ...

General Atlantic CEO and ByteDance board member Bill Ford said Wednesday that he believes TikTok soon will reach a deal to remain in the U.S.  “It’s in everybody’s interest,” Ford said

TikTok was banned and restored within the same weekend. Find out what other apps owned by ByteDance, are in limbo below.

Explore TikTok’s new TRAE AI coding assistant is helping software development with GPT-4, multimodal inputs, and real-time execution. TRAE is

Trump has said that he is looking for a TikTok deal in which US investors own at least a 50% stake in the platform. Read more here.

When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed — and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is: how successful are they?

Shou Zi Chew, the current CEO of TikTok, once interned at Facebook under none other than Mark Zuckerberg. Fast forward a decade, and he’s now leading TikTok—one of Zuckerberg’s fiercest competitors in the social media arena.

With the threat of a potential ban and TikTok missing from U.S. app stores, some smartphones with the app preloaded