ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is required to sell the app to a U.S.-based buyer or face a nationwide ban.

The most significant change in prestige beauty's relationship with Amazon came in March when the Estée Lauder Cos. debuted Clinique on the platform.

TikTok is bringing its service back online in the US, after shutting down for about half a day. The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for “providing the necessary clarity” to do so.

A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew thanked Donald Trump for his commitment to "finding a solution" that keeps TikTok available in the U.S. after the ruling.

“A few months ago I returned some stuff to Amazon, they refunded my money, everything was great. Fast forward three months, and all of a sudden, the money is getting taken out of my bank account again. They said that I didn’t send back the actual item that I sent something else back, which wasn’t true,” Azzolini explains.

Chinese merchants on TikTok are taking precautionary measures to prepare for a looming ban of the short-video app in the United States, including switching to competing platforms and focusing on other overseas markets.

An early payoff has already been scored by TikTok, the video-sharing app that spent months currying favor with the then-candidate Trump in hopes that if he won the election, he would help it survive a threatened shutdown.

The unfolding saga around the popular video-sharing app TikTok took another turn Sunday as the company restored service to users based in the United States.

He previously floated a joint venture, saying that the US should be entitled to half of the app.

The popular social media app TikTok was briefly banned in the United States on Jan. 19.The ban lasted fewer than 24 hours, as U.S. President Donald Trump — who supported a TikTok ban in 2020 — signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice not to enforce the ban for 75 days.