Topline TikTok returned to Apple and Google’s app stores late Thursday, nearly a month after a ban briefly went into effect and barred it from being downloaded by U.S. users—as the Trump administration attempts to sort out a deal that would put it under U.S. ownership and avert an indefinite nationwide ban. TikTok returned to…
After more than 25 days, Apple and Google restored TikTok in the U.S Thrusday evening. Both companies removed the app from the App Store and the Play Store on January 18 in response to a national security law. Other ByteDance apps such as video editor CapCut and social app Lemon8 were also restored on these…
Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store have restored TikTok for U.S. users as of Thursday, after the companies had removed it on Jan. 19. The tech giants pulled TikTok from their U.S. stores because of a federal law effectively banning TikTok as of Jan. 19 because Chinese parent ByteDance had not divested its…
Twenty-six days after it was banished from US app stores, TikTok has returned to the iOS App Store and Google Play store. Apple and Google brought back the Chinese-owned video app after receiving a letter from US attorney general Pam Bondi assuring the companies they would not be fined for hosting it, Bloomberg first reported…
Less than a month after pulling TikTok from their U.S. app stores in response to a new law that requires TikTok to divest from its China-based owner, the social media platform was returning to both the Apple and Google Play stores Thursday night. A Google spokesperson told CBS News that TikTok was restored to its…
TikTok’s app is still working for people in the US — as long as it’s already on their phone. While the service quickly returned after the brief shutdown in January, the app itself is no longer available on either Apple’s App Store or Google’s Play Store. That means that if you removed the app, never…
On Tuesday, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order banning the use of DeepSeek, the Chinese-owned artificial intelligence application, on state government-owned devices and state-run networks. The move makes Virginia the third state to take such action against, following Texas and New York. Endeavors to ban DeepSeek from government-owned devices are beginning to mimic…
With TikTok’s fate in the U.S. uncertain — its ban in the country has been paused, but only temporarily, thanks to an executive order from President Donald Trump — the ByteDance-owned company is now encouraging Android device owners to sideload its video app onto their phones and tablets. The company announced in a Friday X…
TikTok is now offering US downloads of the Android version of the app on its own website, the company announced last night. With the change, Android users in the United States now have an easy way to download or update the app for the first time since Google removed it from Google Play last month…
Tensions between the world’s two largest economies appear controlled after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, belying months of anti-China bluster from the new US leader. Three days ahead of his January 20 inauguration, Trump had a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss issues including fentanyl and trade, an exchange he…