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• TikTok artists and advertisers to stay with app

  TikTok's partners stay committed despite ban concerns. ByteDance must divest within a year. Platform competes with Meta Platforms for user engagement. While the music industry relies on TikTok for promotions, advertisers explore alternative strategies amid uncertainty. TikTok has rivaled larger companies such as Meta Platforms for user attention and ad budgets, and its cultural power is reflected in its ability to catapult emerging artists into viral hits, changing how young people discover music.

  

• TikTok says US House bill that could ban app would 'trample' free speech

  The House passed the legislation on Saturday by a margin of 360 to 58. It now moves to the Senate where it could be taken up for a vote in the coming days. President Joe Biden has previously said he would sign the legislation on TikTok.

  

• X owner Elon Musk says opposed to US ban of competitor TikTok

  Elon Musk on Friday came out against banning TikTok in the United States, even if it would mean less competition for his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, as the initiative sees fresh bipartisan momentum in Congress. "TikTok should not be banned in the USA, even though such a ban may benefit the X platform," Musk said in a post on the social network he acquired in 2022.

  

• TikTok owner ByteDance's profit jumps 60% in 2023 amid worries of US ban

  The owner of TikTok and Chinese twin Douyin last year cemented its position as one of China’s internet leaders, alongside Tencent and Alibaba, which have both struggled to rekindle growth at a time of economic uncertainty and consumer wariness in the country.

  

• What happened when India pulled the plug on TikTok

  An endless scroll of homemade productions, many of them shot in small towns or farms and set to popular music, helped while away the hours across the world's cheapest and fastest-growing mobile-data network. As it has in the United States, TikTok became a platform for entrepreneurial extroverts to build businesses.

  

• Chinese TikTok sellers upset as it tightens US rules

  Chinese e-commerce vendors that want to sell products on TikTok Shop in the U.S. as an alternative to Amazon are upset by moves they say the short video app has made to tighten enforcement of its rules for overseas sellers opening shops on the platform. TikTok, which faces the threat of having to divest its U.S. operations or be banned, has in recent weeks taken a harder stance toward enforcing its internal rules, according to five Chinese vendors on the site and an industry association that represents 3,000 Chinese stores selling products online.

  

• Apple says it's complying with EU's Digital Markets Act amid criticism

  The DMA sets out a list of obligations and prohibitions for Apple, Alphabet's Google, Amazon, TikTok owner ByteDance, Meta Platforms and Microsoft which the six companies had to abide by on March 7.

  

• TikTok and its 'secret sauce' caught in US-China tussle

  As a US campaign to sever TikTok from its Chinese parent heads to the Senate, analysts say Beijing's response to a forced sale of the app -- and its 'secret sauce' algorithm -- Hands off. - 'The secret sauce' - That ByteDance algorithm has helped drive TikTok's stratospheric success since the app was launched for the international market in 2017.

  

• TikTok advertisers will look to rivals if US Senate moves ahead on ban

  House Republicans voted Wednesday to force Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell TikTok in roughly six months, or face a ban, one of the most significant challenges to the company that has long faced questions about national security concerns.

  

• TikTok advertisers will look to rivals if US Senate moves ahead on ban

  House Republicans voted Wednesday to force Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell TikTok in roughly six months, or face a ban, one of the most significant challenges to the company that has long faced questions about national security concerns.

  

• US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban

  The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill giving TikTok's ByteDance six months to divest U.S. assets or face a ban. TikTok CEO warns of job losses. China criticized the legislation. White House supports swift action. Legal challenges anticipated.