TikTok shut down U.S. operations Saturday night, complying with a U.S. law that banned the short video app, even as Donald Trump said a reprieve is "likely."
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is required to sell the app to a U.S.-based buyer or face a nationwide ban.
TikTok is expected to cease operations at midnight, and it’s causing lots of confusion and concern for its users and content creators.>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks]The app has around 170 million users here in the United States and many of them have used the platform for advertising and even for personal income.
A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google.
The platform is in need of saving in the United States, where approximately 170 million people have TikTok accounts. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law that will ban the platform on Jan. 19 unless TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance divests its U.S. operations.
The company is one of the app’s leading server providers, managing the data centers where billions of 40-second videos are stored.
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew thanked Donald Trump for his commitment to "finding a solution" that keeps TikTok available in the U.S. after the ruling.
Morgan Stanley notes recent news reports suggest both President Biden and President-elect Trump are interested in extending the upcoming
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