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Today, Kurt Wagner looks at the looming deadline — again — for a US ban-or-sale of TikTok.
From Bloomberg
A startup run by Tim Stokely, founder of adult content social media site OnlyFans, has partnered with a cryptocurrency foundation to submit a late-stage plan to acquire short video app TikTok from Ch...
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Bidders for the short video social media company are piling up, as the weekend deadline for TikTok to find a buyer approaches.
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In another viral video, the creator informs users via overhead text, “Y’all are taking screenshots the wrong way.” As the clip starts, she asks, “You don’t know the apple [logo] on the back of your phone is a button?” She then flips the camera to her husband’s iPhone in order to demonstrate how to use the Apple logo as a button.
If ByteDance does not divest TikTok by April 5, the app could go dark once again. President Trump has already addressed how he plans to prevent the ban.
Throughout this process, ByteDance – a Chinese company – has yet to comment directly on the potential of a sale to a US firm. TikTok's US leadership and its CEO, Shou Zi Chew, have publicly praised President Donald Trump for his intervention but have been mostly silent since then.
Skylight Social, a social media alternative to TikTok, launched today but users alerted its founders that they believed Apple was burying it in its app store.
Three senators have warned President Donald Trump that his handling of the TikTok ban puts Apple and other tech companies at risk of liability, potentially costing firms hundreds of billions of dollars.
Developed by co-founders Tori White (CEO) and Reed Harmeyer (CTO), Skylight offers a short-form video app experience with many familiar features, including an in-app video editor; the ability to comment, like, and share videos; set up your own user profile; and follow others.
President Donald Trump’s executive orders have spurred more than 130 lawsuits, but one related to TikTok barely generates a peep
As TikTok’s April 5th sell-by date approaches, Americans are back to where they stood before the original January deadline: watching anxiously to see if a major social media app gets banned. But that’s far from the only big event we’ll see over the coming month.
Tick tock, TikTok users. That's the sound of the clock potentially running out on access to the massively popular social media platform. In a Jan. 17 ruling, the US Supreme Court upheld legislation mandating that TikTok be sold or banned,