TikTok and CapCut shoot right to the top of Apple’s App Store downloads as ByteDance returns to phones
The popular apps have unexpectedly returned to iOS and Android devices. You might want to download them while you can.
TikTok bidders talk directly with White House, not ByteDance, Axios reports
Parties interested in buying the popular short-video app TikTok are talking directly with the White House, and not with its ...
TikTok is back on app stores as ByteDance continues to sort out US concerns
According to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, TikTok was first spotted reappearing on the Apple App Store. Users on X chimed in, ...
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From the ‘fair use’ win for Reuters to ByteDance building an AI music beast… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our ...
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All the Apps ByteDance Operates in the US
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 ...
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'Marvel Snap' can once again be downloaded from the US App Store
Apple allows "Marvel Snap" to return to the App Store, presumably thanks to new publishing arrangements that gets the game away from the still-banned ByteDance. Just days after was initially ...
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China’s most popular AI app gets facelift with ByteDance’s Doubao 1.5
TikTok parent ByteDance has launched an updated version of Doubao, China’s most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app, as the tech giant accelerates AI development despite US ...
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ByteDance director Bill Ford says deal coming to save TikTok in the U.S.
Trump’s executive order paused the enforcement of a bipartisan law passed by Congress last year that required ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. assets by Sunday for the app to continue ...
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CapCut, a video-editing app from ByteDance, returns for US users
WASHINGTON -TikTok is not the only app owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance that is flickering back to life. CapCut, a popular video-editing app, came back online in the US on Jan 21 after ...
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CapCut ban update: ByteDance video editor is back for U.S. users, but it’s still not in Apple and Google app stores
The law requiring the ban, called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, also stipulated that it would be illegal for app stores to host other ByteDance apps ...