A TikTok ban Sunday would implicate tech giants like Google, Apple and Oracle, who risk enormous fines if they keep the app operational.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Supreme Court upheld on Friday a law banning TikTok in the United States on national security grounds if its Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell it, putting the popular short-video app on track to go dark in just two days.

A sweeping 2022 law, touted by President Joe Biden as a way to revive U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and reduce reliance on foreign-made computer chips, will “sharply increase production’’ of semico

In letters to Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Uber, the lawmakers express concerns about the companies making contributions to “avoid scrutiny, limit regulation, and buy favor.” These sizable donations surpass the amount most of these companies contributed to President Joe Biden’s inauguration fund in 2021.

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Both Google and Apple has responded to the TikTok ban in US and have removed the app from the respective app stores.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, who built rapport with Trump during his first four years in office, is donating $1 million to his inauguration, Axios reported this past Friday.

Amidst TikTok's uncertain fate in the U.S., President-elect Donald Trump seeks to prevent a ban on the social media app by utilizing legal loopholes and national security authority. Meanwhile, outgoing President Joe Biden considers extending the deadline for ByteDance to negotiate a sale,

The Supreme Court upheld a law banning TikTok in the US over national security concerns unless its Chinese parent ByteDance sells it. Without immediate assurances from the Biden administration, the app will go dark on January 19.

Social media is like strong medicine, it turns out. There's always been good to be found, but the side-effects become intolerable over time.

Cybersecurity Rules: President Biden issued an executive order requiring software companies selling their product to the federal government to prove they included ironclad security features. It may run afoul of Trump’s vow to deregulate.

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