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.

RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book) in China, is often described as a mix of Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest. Regarding its similarities with TikTok, RedNote enables users to create and share short videos on various topics, including fashion, beauty, food, travel, and lifestyle.

Noel Francisco, representing TikTok and ByteDance, argued that Supreme Court ... really worried about these very dramatic risks leave out an e-commerce site like Temu that has 70 million ...

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.

TikTok Shop’s geographic expansion south of the US shows the undeterred response of social-media giant ByteDance to Washington’s “sell-or-ban” law. TikTok and Beijing-based ByteDance have challenged the federal law requiring the popular short-video ...

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

Chinese users of Shanghai-based RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, welcome American arrivals to the platform.

ByteDance has previously said it wouldn't ... which suggests that the Chinese e-commerce platforms Shein and Temu would remain safe. Read next

As TikTok faces the threat of a US ban due to national security concerns, the question over potential buyers has risen. High-profile figures like Frank McCourt, Elon Musk, and Bobby Kotick are reporte

With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popularized the short-form video app.