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TikTok has reached an agreement with Oracle and a group of U.S. investors to restructure its American operations.  This move lowers the risk of a nationwide ban and brings the company closer to meeting U.S. regulatory requirements ahead of the January deadline. The deal is expected to close on January…

TikTok Shop and The King's Trust Help the Next Generation of UK Entrepreneurs Soar A wave of young entrepreneurs will soon be the recipients of unique enterprising opportunities in the UK, thanks to an exciting new partnership. SOAR brings together The King's Trust charity, which supports young people to build…

TikTok is being threatened with legal action over cuts to its UK online safety teams. In August, the social media company announced more than 400 workers would lose their jobs , with AI replacing some of the workers and other jobs being rehired abroad. TikTok is being accused of threatening…

Kato’s “Turn the Lights Off” made it to the top of a Spotify chart: “Never in a million years!” Kato; Jon Hamm Lasse Lagoni*; Apple Tv On TikTok, few things are more fun than a reaction video. Over the past several weeks, EDM star Kato’s song “Turn the Lights Off,” featuring Jon…

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Updated at 11:59 pm ET December 18, 2025 Welcome to the internet's biggest night — or at least, its strangest one yet. The 2025 TikTok Awards took the platform’s endlessly scrolling For You Page and attempted to turn it into a live, IRL spectacle, with mixed and often surreal results.…

GloRilla and Sexyy Red are speaking out after a spicy comment from Red’s account popped up under a TikTok video of Glo and Brandon Ingram. RELATED: Aww! GloRilla & Brandon Ingram’s Cute Courtside Handshake Has The Internet Screaming “Couple Goals” (WATCH) GloRilla Reacts To Alleged Wild Comment From Sexyy Red’s…

The seams were showing at times at the first TikTok Awards held Thursday night the Hollywood Palladium and live streaming on TikTok and Tubi.  But producers, presenters and winners soldiered on with few hitches. The event didn’t take itself too seriously to begin with — with awards in cheeky categories…

Originally launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance, the international version TikTok was released in 2017. Photo: Roslan RAHMAN / AFP/File Source: AFP TikTok boasts over a billion users worldwide, including more than 170 million in the United States, it says -- nearly half the country's population. Here is…

TikTok blames its US problems on a power outage Image: The Verge TikTok says a power outage is causing ongoing issues and outages that started in the US early Sunday morning. In an email to The Verge, TikTok USDS spokesperson Jamie Favazza pointed to a statement posted to the joint…