So did Snap Inc., parent company to Snapchat. YouTube followed suit with a U.S. YouTube Shorts launch the next year. Despite growing competition, TikTok became many people’s go-to for internet ...

ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, has earmarked over 150 billion yuan ($20.64 billion) in capital expenditure for this ...

Bill Ford, the CEO of ByteDance shareholder General Atlantic, said Wednesday he was confident that a deal will be reached to ...

The plan to save TikTok involves software company Oracle and a group of outside investors effectively taking control of the ...

Another day in the music industry, another update on the possible futures for TikTok in the US. ByteDance board member Bill Ford told Bloomberg Television that the company is seeking alternatives to a ...

Donaldson posted a jokey message on X on January 13 that read, "Okay fine, I'll buy Tik Tok so it doesn't get banned." A day later, ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump said late Monday he hoped there would be a “bidding war” for TikTok, claiming Microsoft is now among the companies interested in buying ByteDance’s popular social ...

ByteDance is exploring a deal that would keep TikTok running in the U.S. without selling its operations, Jack Sidders, Lisa Abramowicz, and ...