Ted Johnson The Trump administration said that it won’t implement an order that would have prohibited companies like Apple and Google from offering the TikTok app, shutting down its use in the U.S.“The Department is complying with the terms of this order,” the Commerce Department said in the notice.The legal action was brought by individuals who use the TikTok app for their businesses.
The Trump administration is appealing the ruling. TikTok parent ByteDance, meanwhile, is seeking its own court order to block the Trump Administration efforts that ultimately would force it to sell the popular app.
There was much hype earlier this fall to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations to Oracle and Walmart, but that deal was never completed.The U.S.
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