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

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.

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.

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.

If Perplexity merged with TikTok, it would give the company access to an immense user base and the data needed to feed its AI-driven search engine.

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.

Tencent Holdings' super-app WeChat was removed from a list of "notorious" sellers of counterfeit goods by the US trade office, days after the defence department designated the tech giant as a "Chinese military company".

As the United States inches closer to a potential ban on TikTok, millions of American users are exploring alternatives, with RedNote emerging as a frontrunner. Known as Xiaohongshu, or 'Little Red Book',

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

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TikTok said on Sunday said it was restoring its service after US President-elect Donald Trump said he would revive the app’s access in the US when he returns to power on Monday.

The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Jan. 19 unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company, ByteDance.