Shark Tank investor, Kevin O'Leary, has proposed a deal to TikTok to buy the algorithm at $20 billion. He is calling this the Project Liberty and in a recent reel on his Instagram, shared the details of how he envisions the future of the application to be.

If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time.

TikTok fans in the U.S. are racing to secure alternatives and safeguard their digital empires ahead of a looming shutdown, evoking the chaos of India's 2020 ban that erased the app from the lives of 200 million users overnight.

TikTok told users the app will be "temporarily unavailable" as its Chinese parent company ByteDance pins its hopes on Donald Trump to save it.

TikTok’s time in the United States is counting down. But Washington is only the latest government to impose restrictions on the video app.

When India banned TikTok in June 2020, Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube gained big time. Will it be the same with the US suspension?

Trump says an announcement will probably come once he takes office on Monday about the app's future in the US.

After an extended legal and political battle, the widely-used video-sharing platform TikTok went offline in US on Jan 18. TikTok stopped functioning in the US late on Saturday and was removed from Apple and Google app stores.

TikTok ceased operations for 170 million U.S. users on January 19 after a law banning the app due to national security concerns came into effect. The shutdown has caused significant disruption, particularly among younger users.

Apple and Google removed TikTok from US app stores after a new law targeting national security concerns took effect, mandating ByteDance to divest its US operations or face shutdown. TikTok preemptively suspended services,

Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social video app merged with its competitor Musical.ly, TikTok has grown from a niche teen app into a global trendsetter. While, of course, also emerging as a potential national security threat,