The U.S. government said in a court filing on Thursday it was appealing a judge’s ruling that prevented it from prohibiting new downloads of the Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok. The Justice Department said it appealed the order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In late September, a U.S. judge temporarily ...

A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that was set to bar Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google from offering Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok for download at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington said in a brief order late on Sunday he was issuing a preliminary ...

China has no reason to approve the “dirty and unfair” deal based on “bullying and extortion” that Oracle Corp and Walmart Inc said they struck with ByteDance, the state-backed English-language China Daily newspaper said on Wednesday. “What the United States has done to TikTok is almost the same as a gangster forcing an unreasonable and ...

China’s ByteDance said on Monday that TikTok’s global business will become its subsidiary, even as Oracle Corp and Walmart Inc said over the weekend that they and U.S. investors would own the majority of the video app following a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 14 giving ...

The Trump administration will ban WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok from U.S. app stores starting Sunday night, a move that will block Americans from downloading the Chinese-owned platforms over concerns they pose a national security threat. Current TikTok users will see little change on Sunday and U.S. Commerce Department officials said they will not bar ...

ByteDance has abandoned the sale of TikTok in the United States to pursue a partnership with Oracle Corp that it hopes will spare it a U.S. ban while appeasing China, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Beijing-based firm had been in talks to divest the business to Oracle or a consortium led by ...

Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut down in the United States, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday. ByteDance has been in talks to sell TikTok’s U.S. business to potential buyers including Microsoft ...

TikTok and one of its employees on Monday separately sued U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration over his executive order banning transactions in the United States with the popular short-form video-sharing app, calling it a pretext to fuel anti-China rhetoric as he seeks re-election. Culver City, California-based TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd rejected what ...

TikTok said on Saturday it plans to file a lawsuit on Monday against President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app and its Chinese parent ByteDance, confirming an earlier Reuters report. TikTok said it had tried to engage with the U.S administration for nearly a year, but faced “a lack ...

Twitter Inc has approached TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to express interest in acquiring the U.S operations of the video-sharing app, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as experts raised doubts over Twitter’s ability to put together financing for a potential deal. It is far from certain that Twitter would be able to outbid ...