TikTok is considering alternative solutions to selling its US business, as owner ByteDance continues the fight to keep its 170 million American users after a reprieve from the Trump administration, a board member of ByteDance was quoted by Chinese magazine Caixin as saying.

Perplexity AI submitted a revised merger proposal to TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance as the popular video-sharing app stares down a national ban, according to multiple reports. Under the new ...

TikTok was banned and restored within the same weekend. Find out what other apps owned by ByteDance, are in limbo below. Why Was TikTok Banned in the U.S.? TikTok was banned in the U.S. due to ...

Video-sharing app TikTok wasn't the only platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance that went offline in the U.S. on Sunday. Several other apps, including the photo-sharing app Lemon8 ...

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Under the deal being negotiated by the White House, TikTok’s China-based owner, ByteDance, would retain a stake in the company, but data collection and software updates would be overseen by Oracle, which already provides the foundation of TikTok’s Web infrastructure, one of the sources told Reuters.

Perhaps the most appealing option for ByteDance could be if Trump blessed a merger between TikTok and Perplexity AI—a San Francisco-based AI search company worth about $9 billion that appears to ...

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At a Friday meeting of the UNC-CH Faculty Council, Chancellor Lee Roberts said university leaders have spent a good deal of time and energy trying to understand the implications of the shifting federal policy. “I can’t imagine how unsettling it must be ...

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok and Douyin, will end the Lunar New Year tradition of giving red packets to employees from 2026, but will expand medical insurance for staff, according to an ...

TL;DR: The Trump administration is working on a plan involving Oracle and US investors to control TikTok's global operations, with ByteDance retaining a minority stake. Oracle will oversee TikTok ...