A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google.
A law that prohibits mobile app stores and internet hosting services from distributing the video-sharing platform to U.S. users takes effect on Sunday.
TikTok is set to be banned tomorrow. Here's what time the ban could start in the U.S. and what the app could look like for users trying to access it on Sunday.
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at the impacts of the looming TikTok ban in the U.S., including the “TikTok refugees” moving to
The clock is ticking toward TikTok's end with a possible ban set to go into effect Sunday. Here's where "TikTok refugees" are going.
Even with any assurances from Donald Trump, companies like Apple, Google, and Oracle would be taking a risk by not complying with the TikTok ban.
“Our position on this has been clear: TikTok should continue to operate under American ownership. Given the timing of when it goes into effect over a holiday weekend a day before inauguration, it will be up to the next administration to implement,” read the statement.
The incoming president said he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day extension called for in a law upheld by the Supreme Court yesterday to see it sold or banned by a deadline tomorrow. In a phone interview with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker of NBC News,
TikTok creators are posting videos promoting ways to get around a looming shutdown of the app in the US, which could spell trouble for Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and other American tech companies required by law to enforce the ban or risk potentially billions in fines.
Unless TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, sells the app into new ownership, TikTok will be removed from Apple and Google app stores on Sunday, Jan. 19, reports CNN. The app will still be accessible on phones that have it previously downloaded, but it will not be able to update.
Duolingo shares have jumped this week, as the number of Americans learning Mandarin on the app has soared 216%. That's as China's RedNote is now the most downloaded free app on Apple's App Store ahead of the TikTok ban.