TikTok returned to the Apple and Google app stores Thursday night, weeks after being pulled down in the wake of a US ban of the popular social media app that technically took effect in January.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app. Microsoft declined to comment. TikTok and ...

TikTok returned to the Apple and Google app stores Thursday evening after President Trump delayed the ban on the video-sharing app last month. The Chinese-owned app was removed from the stores ...

24, 2025, 3:30 p.m. EST Shortly after taking office this week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Justice to delay enforcing a TikTok ban for 75 days.

SHANGHAI, Feb 20 (Reuters) - TikTok is laying off global staff at its trust and safety unit which handles content moderation as part of a restructuring, three sources familiar with the matter said ...

Some of TikTok's 170 million U.S.-based users are selling phones with the social media app preloaded on them for thousands of dollars online. Parent company ByteDance voluntarily shut down the ...

TikTok was reinstated in the Apple and Google app stores on Thursday, weeks after being removed due to a looming nationwide ban. TikTok returned to multiple U.S.-based app stores on Thursday night ...

Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok's parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok's U.S. business ...

TikTok could soon be gone from the US. The app's future is uncertain because of a divest-or-ban law passed in 2024 that requires Chinese owner ByteDance to separate from its US assets. President ...

TikTok returned to Apple and Google’s app stores late Thursday, nearly a month after a ban briefly went into effect and barred it from being downloaded by U.S. users—as the Trump ...

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that extends the ban on TikTok, which briefly went dark in the U.S. last week. But the legal logistics of the ...

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance temporarily shut down the app in the U.S., just hours before a deadline to either sell the app or face a nationwide ban over concerns about its ties to China.