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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.…

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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…

Image Credits:Artur Widak/NurPhoto / Getty Images 4:56 PM PST · December 18, 2025 TikTok has reached a deal to cede a substantial portion of its U.S. operation to a group of American investors, thus ending a years-long tussle in which the federal government has sought to force the platform to…

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US policymakers, including Donald Trump in his first presidency, have warned that China could use TikTok to mine data from Americans or exert influence through its state-of-the-art algorithm. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP/File Source: AFP TikTok said Thursday it had signed a joint venture deal with investors that would…

Stop us if you’ve heard this before, but it appears that the TikTok sale odyssey may be about to wrap up. Here are the details. Deal set to close in January As reported by Axios , TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. unit to a joint venture…

TikTok has finalized a deal with Oracle and two other investors that will allow the popular social video platform to continue its business in the U.S. The deal, expected to close on Jan. 22, will be 50% held by a new investor consortium that includes tech giant Oracle, Silver Lake…