TikTok, ByteDance

ByteDance director confident TikTok deal will get done, sees options to avoid an outright sale
Bill Ford, the CEO of ByteDance shareholder General Atlantic, said Wednesday he was confident that a deal will be reached to ensure TikTok stays online in the US — and suggested there may be
ByteDance weighs non-sale options for TikTok
ByteDance is exploring a deal to keep TikTok running in the United States without selling its operations there, according to board member Bill Ford.
TikTok Weighs Non-Sale Options, ByteDance’s Ford Says
ByteDance is exploring a deal to keep TikTok running in the US without selling its operations there, according to board member Bill Ford.
Supreme Court appears ready to uphold law forcing TikTok’s sale from ByteDance
The Supreme Court seemed to lean Thursday toward upholding a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off TikTok, with all nine justices indicating national security concerns posed by the social media app outweighed potential threats to free speech.
ByteDance director Bill Ford says deal coming to save TikTok in the U.S.
General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford said on Wednesday that a deal would get done to save TikTok in the U.S. after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that halted a ban on the app for 75 days.
ByteDance board member confident deal to save TikTok in US will be reached soon
General Atlantic CEO and ByteDance board member Bill Ford said Wednesday that he believes TikTok soon will reach a deal to remain in the U.S. “It’s in everybody’s interest,” Ford said at an Axios event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos,
RIP TikTok: Remembering the ByteDance app after US Supreme Court ban
First launched in the United States in 2018, the app quickly became the most downloaded social and entertainment app in the ...
TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban
The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline ...
Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban, But That's Not the End of the Story
Political shifts and legal hurdles have delayed TikTok's removal, with Biden reportedly kicking the issue to Trump.
US Supreme Court supports the TikTok ban; Trump's statement
The US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the TikTok ban, and Trump has issued a statement regarding the matter.
Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban, App May Shut Down Jan. 19 in the U.S.
The Supreme Court rejected TikTok's appeal to halt a law banning the app in the U.S. unless Chinese parent ByteDance sells ...
TikTok goes dark in the US with a bunch of other ByteDance apps
TikTok has shut down in the US, and the app is no longer available to download on mobile. The company has now pinned its ...
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U.S. Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Sale-or-Ban Law
In a much-anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 17, 2025, rejected TikTok's appeal and upheld the Protecting Americans from ...
Supreme Court TikTok ruling tramples free speech (Guest Opinion by Roy S. Gutterman)
Justices brushed aside arguments that shutting down the platform prevents 170 million users from expressing themselves and ...
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TikTok drops ByteDance CDN in the US following brief shutdown
Kentik’s analysis shows that, prior to the shutdown, most TikTok traffic used ByteDance’s own CDN. Since it returned, all ...