ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is required to sell the app to a U.S.-based buyer or face a nationwide ban.

But Pence refused to endorse President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Pence and Trump fell out after the January 6th Capitol riot, and Trump, in turn, recently suggested that he wouldn't hire anyone who had worked for his former second-in-command.

Phones are going for thousands of dollars on online storefronts after Apple and Google took down ByteDance platforms.

The federal law banning TikTok has revealed a major schism among American tech companies: Some are willing to flout the law — and some, including Apple and Google, are not.

Content creator Jimmy Donaldson, known on the Internet as MrBeast, has made it clear he is interested in buying TikTok. Donaldson has the most subscribers of any user on YouTube— over 340 million—and boasts over 113 million TikTok followers.

The U.K.'s National Crime Agency has said it's made big progress in stamping out accounts linked to people-smuggling on Meta, X, TikTok and YouTube.

The Trump administration is denying it, but Trump previously said he'd like to see the software company take it over.

"Boy Room" is a TikTok hit. But the studio behind it didn't make any money from its success until Amazon showed up.

Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars online, after the social media app was momentarily unavailable in the U.S.

The TikTok app is still not available in Google Play or Apple's App Store despite Trump's order halting the ban. Here's what's happening.

President Trump gave TikTok a reprieve on Inauguration Day, signing an executive order that pauses enforcement of a law requiring Chinese divestiture of the social-media app over national-security concerns. Mr. Trump’s critics claim the move was illegitimate, but they’re wrong. It falls well within the president’s broad enforcement discretion.