General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford said on Wednesday that a deal would get done to save TikTok in the U.S. after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that halted a ban on the app for 75 days.
AI, TikTok and ByteDance
Bill Ford, the CEO of ByteDance shareholder General Atlantic, said Wednesday he was confident that a deal will be reached to ensure TikTok stays online in the US — and suggested there may be
Lemon8 is a video- and photo-sharing platform that eschews the vertical-scrolling format of TikTok in favor of a Pinterest board-style format. But what Lemon8 and TikTok do have in common is both have Following and For You tabs to show you posts from creators you follow and posts the app thinks you will like.
TikTok remains unavailable on Google and Apple’s app stores in the U.S. When might it return, and what could happen to TikTok without updates in the meantime? Here's what to know.
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance spent more than $10 million on lobbying last year, marking the company’s most expensive lobbying year to date. According to a Q4 lobbying disclosure report filed Tuesday, ByteDance spent $2.3 million on expenses related to lobbying activity between Oct. 1 through the end of the year.
TikTok is no longer available in the United States —at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users.
Kentik’s analysis shows that, prior to the shutdown, most TikTok traffic used ByteDance’s own CDN. Since it returned, all users have been routed via third-party CDNs provided by vendors such as Akamai and Fastly.
A representative for Jimmy Donaldson — better known online as MrBeast — says the YouTube star isn’t in the TikTok bidding race just yet.
ByteDance has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered code editor in competition with American leaders like Cursor and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, just after US President Donald Trump delayed the enforcement of a law requiring the company to divest TikTok.
Donald Trump considers Elon Musk buying TikTok
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Donald Trump Says TikTok 'Worthless,' Might Not Save It After All
Donald Trump says China tariffs could hinge on TikTok deal
Within hours of his inauguration on Monday, Trump postponed a deadline requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell its stake in the app or face a ban in the country. Trump argued that the US “should be entitled to get half of TikTok ” if the app continued operating beyond that cut-off and that he could “certainly” impose tariffs on China if it rejected a deal,
TikTok went dark for a few hours in the U.S. before the ban was suddenly reversed Sunday. Here's what to know about President Trump's executive order.
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