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Summary List Placement The Trump administration acknowledged that it will comply with a federal judge's ruling blocking an executive order that would have effectively banned TikTok in the US. The order "WILL NOT GO INTO EFFECT, pending further legal developments," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a directive issued Monday. The order would have gone into effect after 11:59 pm ET on Thursday. But...

Summary List Placement The Trump administration's efforts to ban WeChat are headed toward another roadblock. In a hearing Thursday, US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said she was unlikely to grant the US Department of Justice's request for a stay of her September ruling blocking the ban while it continues to litigate the case, Bloomberg reported. If Beeler declines to grant the government's request, the Trump...

Summary List Placement As the months-long battle to keep TikTok in the US has seen twists and surprises, employees say they've mostly been left in the dark. Aside from weekly all-hands meetings with some members of leadership, TikTok employees say they have received little information directly from the company and instead are relying on news reports and Twitter for information. On Sept. 14, the...

Summary List Placement If Anis Uzzaman, CEO and managing partner of Pegasus Tech Ventures, had a chance to invest in TikTok's parent ByteDance today, he would probably take it, he told Business Insider, but only if the Trump administration's war with the Chinese-headquartered company didn't kill its growth. That's a big if. On Sunday new downloads of TikTok will be banned in the US,...

A US TikTok employee, Patrick Ryan, has launched a crowdfunder to sue the Trump administration over the president's executive order banning TikTok from September. Ryan believes the executive order will mean TikTok can't pay its 1,500 US employees, and his lawyer plans to file a suit next week. Trump signed the executive order on August 6, barring US individuals and businesses from doing business...

TikTok plans to sue the Trump administration over its recent executive order as early as Tuesday, NPR reported Saturday, citing a source directly involved in the lawsuit. President Donald Trump's recent executive order banned US individuals and companies from engaging in "any transaction" with Chinese firm ByteDance, the app's parent company. NPR reported the lawsuit will argue that the administration "failed to give the...

TikTok, the video-sharing platform that's become a mainstay of internet culture, is facing an uncertain future in the US, due to its ties to China thanks to its parent company ByteDance. After months of raising concerns about TikTok's national-security risks, the Trump administration took action this week aimed at banning the app in the US. However, it's still unclear whether Donald Trump has the...

The parent company behind TikTok is in discussions with Microsoft and other US tech companies about acquiring the viral app's US operations. Mark Zuckerberg was asked at a recent Facebook all-hands meeting whether the company was interested in acquiring TikTok, BuzzFeed reports. Although Zuckerberg refused to comment on Facebook's business strategy, he did address Donald Trump's threatened ban of TikTok in the US. "It's...

Microsoft is in talks to purchase TikTok, the massively popular video app that's owned and operated by the Chinese company ByteDance. The purchase talks come amid threats from President Donald Trump to ban the app in the United States. Trump says the app funnels user information to the Chinese government, and must be operated by an American company to ensure the safety of user...

Microsoft announced in a statement Sunday that it will continue discussions to acquire US operations of the popular video app TikTok. The announcement comes after President Donald Trump told reporters that his administration was looking into banning the Chinese-owned app citing security concerns, sparking widespread concern and panic among creators on the social media platform. The company said in the statement that it is...