While TikTok remains hugely popular in Brazil, Indonesia and other markets, its 170 million users in the United States are its most valuable.

Even if temporary, the unprecedented shutdown of TikTok is set to have a wide-ranging impact on U.S.-China relations, U.S. politics, the social media marketplace and millions of Americans.

The U.S. Trade Representative has added an e-commerce platform owned by TikTok's parent to its "notorious markets" list, naming the entity as one of more than 70 online and physical markets potentially engaging in or facilitating counterfeiting and piracy.

The looming TikTok ban presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google – as well as other Big Tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon that count its Chinese parent company ByteDance as a business partner.

Lawyers for TikTok and its Chinese parent company issued a warning to the Supreme Court: If Congress can ban us, it can come for other companies too.

TikTok is challenging a possible ban or forced sale to new owners in the United States, but has for several years been waging other fights in at least 20 countries.

TikTok Shop’s geographic expansion south of the US shows the undeterred response of social-media giant ByteDance to Washington’s “sell-or-ban” law. TikTok and Beijing-based ByteDance have challenged the federal law requiring the popular short-video ...

Rivals like Shopee, TikTok and Lazada have intensified their push in Indonesia. Read more at straitstimes.com.

(Bloomberg) -- Indonesian e-commerce pioneer PT Bukalapak.com will stop selling physical goods, underscoring the cut-throat competition in a market where the likes of ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok ...

Chinese users of Shanghai-based RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, welcome American arrivals to the platform.

The looming TikTok ban presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google – as well as other Big Tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon that count its Chinese parent company ByteDance as a business partner.

As fears of a TikTok ban grow, Americans are turning to Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red book.” Here’s how the lifestyle app became a global phenomenon.